Travellingoldies

We have spent the last two days driving through Yellowstone. Yesterday we took the geothermal area road stopping and looking at the many and various thermal sights, geysers, mud flows, hot pools through to Gardiner in Montana. It was 23 degrees F when we left Jackson Hole yesterday which we think is about minus 5C and didn't get past 5 degrees C all day. Each time we got out of the car to walk around the areas we really had to rug up. I love my gloves with the mitten fingers, it means I can take photos with gloves on even if they are a bit shaky with the shivers. We waited at Old Faithful to see the eruption which happens approximately every 75 minutes and once it starts spurts for about 3-4 minutes. It was well worth the wait in the cold and some soup and hot chocolate was very welcome when it was over
We made a vast change to the number of layers we put on this morning however it wasn't quite as cold. It probably started at minus 2 and warmed up this afternoon to around 10C.
We started off this morning at Mammoth Springs. When I came here 22 years ago these were huge with pools of steaming water flowing down from the top however they are much drier now and there is only one small area which is like I remember. We wonder if the many hotels and resorts that have sprung up since then are draining some of the underground water similar to what has happened in Pamakale in Turkey, we hope not but it does make you wonder.
From here we drove around the Canyon area which is fantastic and the Artist Point is just as I remember it, beautiful.
We are now back in Jackson and will start driving south tomorrow. There is plenty of driving to do and we have to keep moving on towards the Canyons which is where we want to spend some time.