Yesterday we visited the Northwest side of the park-mammoth hot springs. This area is like a giant witches cauldron on a hillside. Boiling hot water emerges from a lodgepole pine covered hill. As it makes its way down it deposits a travertine crust making a series of terraces which look like limestone and reek of sulfur. Our favorite spot in this area was called boiling springs. This was where the extremely hot water from mammoth hot springs ran down and merged with a freezing cold glacial runnoff river. At their confluence was a natural hot tub.
We spent the evening of the 4th in west Yellowstone listening to a local funk band. Even I danced because it was so cold it was the only way to keep warm. The evening finished with the local fireworks display. It was a great day.
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