OSH and Yellowstone trip, 2014

[Mike S]

After leaving OSH this year, Laura and I had made plans to fly to Yellowstone National Park for a day or three of sightseeing. Laura had already made lodging arrangements for the trip so with the weather forecast in our favor, we headed off to Livingstone MT.

There are already lots of folks posting OSH photos, so we are starting at Livingstone.





The local Dodge dealer also rents cars, and they brought one up to us at the airport. First night was in Gardiner, MT------- called the gateway to Yellowstone for some rather obvious reason.



As we arrived late in the day, we only took a short drive up to Mammoth Hot Springs before heading back down to our hotel for the evening. While up at Mammoth, we saw this worried mother, and her carefree offspring.





The boardwalk out to one side of the hot springs. This place is huge, easily saw it from the air as we were returning home a couple days later. Google it for many fantastic photos and info.



The next day we drove into the park, stopping at many beautiful places where Laura took way too many photos to put into this thread, but there is an album link at the end of this post.

Here is a few highlights of the trip into the park. Norris Geyser Basin was somewhere you could spend a day or more and still not see all there is to see.









Full album is here. https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...ovy9ExKGFlkaKO

[Mike S]

As were driving along, we kept a lookout for local critters, such as this wolf.



Looking carefully you can see a collar with a tracking device on the wolf's neck.

Try as we might, no other big critters were evident on this drive............but we hit the jackpot the next day.

Here is a teaser................................



We stopped off at many fantastic locations, here is the Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midway Geyser Basin.





Last stop of the day was Old Faithful--------where we were lucky to have scored a room at the Old Faithful Inn. This place is booked a year or more out, but Laura was able to find a mid week cancellation that she grabbed.











And here it is again from our room...............



Not a bad room for a "take what you get" mid week cancellation.

[Mike S]

Here is a couple more shots from the Inn, our room and the main hall-------this thing is huge!







This is an area called Biscuit Basin, named for pieces of rock thrown out by a geyser eruption some time back.





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Next stop was Yellowstone falls overlook at a place called Artist Point.

[Mike S]

As promised, wild life shots.

Driving back from Artist Point, an Elk along side the road.



And almost directly across the road, was this big fellow.



More bison a few miles down the road.







I stopped counting at 50------there must have been close to twice that amount out there. One big guy was on the opposite side of the road, right next to the road.

[Mike S]

The next day it was time to go home, after talking to the gentleman who runs the Livingstone airport, we decided to follow his recommendations to fly back along the route we had driven to Yellowstone, and are we ever glad we did so.

Here are a few shots of the park from our flight back home.













A final farewell look back at the main geyser area.



Thanks for looking, hope you enjoyed it.

Full album is here.

https://photos.google.com/album/AF1Q...ovy9ExKGFlkaKO

[Zac@AerosportProducts]

I Love Yellowstone!! Great Pictures and what luck on the room right by Old Faithful. Nice meeting you two at Osh as well.

[majuro15]

Mike, glad you guys are having fun! It was great to meet you and check out your plane at OSH before you left. Safe travels.

[Jaypratt]

Mike,

Thanks for the report. Good to see you at Oshkosh.

[flightlogic]

Nice room... lucked out.
Love the animal pics... nice and close.

[jclark]

Mike and Laura,

Great post and it was wonderful to spend time with the two of you at OSH!!

James