Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Night Swing



Wish this is where I was right now. Cold nights, colors slowly vanishing.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

There were marmottes!



MARMAN-OTTES!

Water Wheel

This is the valley where Drakesbad is.
A lovely homemade water wheel in motion.
My dirty post-hiking feet.
The valley view in the other direction.







Textures

The charred inside of a tree. Red earth.



Terminal Geiser

Another hike, this time to explore the geothermal activities...

Boiling Springs Lake is not for swimming. Very hot with bubbly mud at the sides and, weirdly enough, a popular hangout for deer. There were two buck and one doe there for hours, several days in a row, sauna time I guess...



Terminal Geiser, lots of steam, and deep earthy bubbling and clanking sounds. It was incredibly noisy and I could hear it far away in the woods as I was approaching: