Blogs from Wyoming, United States, North America - page 127

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Forgot to include this earlier, had to stop on the way to check it out. Some kind of wierd canyon, but it has a restaurant and I had to check it out.... read more

Good Morning everyone! We drove through the Columbia River Gorge and on to Idaho after leaving Portland. We decided to head north to Shoshone to visit the Shoshone ice caves. It is a cave inside an ancient lava tube that we climbed down into. There were bones of ice age bears that had been stuck inside the cave and couldn't get out. It was a pretty neat tourist trap. The girls got some polished rocks and some collector spoons. We then headed over to Craters of the Moon National Park. That is an interesting landscape to say the least. It is amazing that the whole land out there is covered in lava flows from thousands of years ago, it makes for an alien landscape. After that we headed to Idaho Falls and up to the Grand ... read more

Hey everyone, I guess I have some catching up to do. The last time I wrote was about Telluride, I’ve covered a lot of time since then. So, the next stop after Telluride was a little town called Ouray for a day. This is a tiny town nestled in a box canyon but with no ski area, just a really cool public hot spring and an ice festival the weekend we were there. Ice climbing is an interesting sport, the climbers are equipped with crampons and ice axes, and they basically just attack the ice as they climb, with a constant spray of ice chunks, some bowling ball sized head hunters, raining down. But these guys were impressive, the speed climbers got up the ice faster than I can climb a ladder. We also toured the ... read more

Here it is; the report of the Oly Trio’s September 2004 Vacation and Photography trip to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone National Park. The report is divided into four parts. This is Part 1. Some images of this photo safari are available for view and purchase at my online gallery NW Exposures. Tues 9/7 We left Olympia on Tuesday morning, September 7, after visits to the liquor store, the post office, hardware and grocery stores. It was fortunate we had a short driving day scheduled. Following a pre-planned route from Olympia, we circumnavigated Mt. Rainer on northwest Highway 410, traveling over Chinook Pass to Little Naches campground. This was the first real road trip with our new Quicksilver fold-out tent trailer that is light enough to tow behind our four cylinder Subaru Forester that has a ... read more