{"id":1536,"date":"2013-06-11T13:39:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2023-06-03T20:38:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T20:38:46","slug":"we-visited-the-grand-canyon-at-yellowstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retired-openroad.us\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"We visited the Grand Canyon…at Yellowstone!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Did you know that there is a huge canyon at Yellowstone that is called the “Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone”?\u00a0 We didn’t.\u00a0 We visited it yesterday and it’s VERY impressive!\u00a0 The Yellowstone River runs through it and has carved it over a long time.\u00a0 There are two waterfalls at the beginning of the canyon and there are several viewpoints to see the beautiful formations and colors along the canyon.\u00a0 Several of the viewpoints are down 800+ steps…and since we were at 8,000ft already Jeff and I decided not to attempt those.\u00a0 We were out of breath just walking on level ground!<\/p>\n

In the photo just below, notice the large white area on the cliff – it’s a shelf of snow!\u00a0 At this altitude there was still some snow on the ground as well!<\/p>\n

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At one viewpoint a man was sitting with a large telephoto camera and was looking through it and then taking notes.\u00a0 We\u00a0discovered he was studying an Osprey in a nest high on\u00a0the tip of a formation.\u00a0 We got a fairly good photo of it with our telephoto lens and it’s included in the set of photos below.<\/p>\n

We also saw a mud volcano and sulphur caldron – boy was it stinky!!!\u00a0 The yellow coloring around several of the pits is pure sulphur.<\/p>\n

And, while driving through a meadow we saw a couple of elk, both with nice antlers.\u00a0 Got a couple of pictures of them.\u00a0\u00a0 We again saw lots of bison and at one place a ranger was directing traffic around a big male who was walking right in the middle of the street!\u00a0 But, we have tons of bison photos so we didn’t hold up traffic this time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here are some photos:<\/p>\n\n