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From the Grandlooprd, you can continue to drive about 3.5 miles in the direction of the Old Faithful Geyser to the Grand Prism, and the parking lot at this point viewpoint is also very large, and you can get off the car and walk along the boardwalk after crossing the wooden bridge, you can feel its color and steaming from the east side of the Grand Prism Hot Spring, which is actually because it is too big. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

There is also a lot of steam, so you can't really feel the beauty of the big prism when you look at it up close from the boardwalk. It must be overlooked.

On the slope to the west of the Great Prism, the mountain in the distant taiga seen above. The mountain is not passable from the Great Prism side, because it is all hot spring basins, and there are no trails or trails to pass it, but the hillside is actually on the west side of the Great Prism, on the side of a north-south fairyfallstrail.

The south entrance of this dirt road (the entrance to the main road) is just over 1 kilometre south of Grand Prism Point, and there is also a small parking lot, parking across the bridge is the fairyfallstrail, and walking about 1 kilometre north to start climbing the mountain, and then you can get a closer look at Grand Prism.

In fact, when Yunluo and Yan Shenyu came to the south of the fairyfallstrail, the road was closed! again！ This trail (the car can't drive, you can only walk), it's actually blocked! Luck is too bad, in fact, when I overlooked the big prism on the east side of the mountain, I faintly felt that it was wrong, because ⌒, w≡ww. I didn't see anyone on the fairyfalltrail.

It stands to reason that a considerable number of tourists will choose to climb the mountain to overlook the Great Prism. However, there are two or three people walking out of the south entrance on foot, indicating that there is still hope to enter! So Yunluo studied the googlemap, found the north entrance of this trail, and without saying a word, got in the car and went straight to the north entrance!

You can still drive a little way through the north exit, and then you can only rely on foot. It is still 3 miles, or 5 kilometers, from the western slope of the Great Prism. Yunluo asked the mushrooms to check in at the oldfaithfullodge first, and then pick up Yunluo at the south exit of the trail two hours later.

Carrying his camera, he began to walk the almost pedestrian-friendly trail all the way south.

At 1 kilometer, I met a Canadian couple who were going to fairyfalls, and Yunluo walked relatively fast. After overtaking them, there was no one to be seen, the weather began to become gloomy, and the clouds were a little worried about the rain, so they quickened their pace, and after walking for nearly an hour, they could already see the heat coming from the large prism in the distance, and saw a sign at the fork in the road.

The other fork in the road leads to fairyfalls, and the end is a dead end, and if Yunluo returns the same way, it means that he has gone so far in vain. And I can't meet with the mushroom mm at the south entrance of the pre-appointment, so I have to break through, because I am the only one, so I am still quite nervous, one is afraid that I will really meet the bear, although it is complete, but it is estimated that Yunluo has also explained. Second, I was afraid of encountering the forest park patrol, and it was also tragic to order Yunluo to return the same way.

It's really empty in my heart. But the more scared I was, the more excited I became, and after 10 minutes of walking. Finally came to the hillside on the west side of the big prism, there are several people stepping out of the mountain, and the slopes are scattered, just rely on your own feelings to find a good perspective overlooking the big prism, and clearly tell the friends.

There is a place where you can have a view without any trees to get a full view of the big prism!

Because I was an illegal trespasser, I was a little scared when I took pictures. Afraid of being discovered by the park manager below, there was a police car passing by at the bottom of the mountain for a while, which made Yunluo nervous for a while, and later learned that the police car drove in to remove the road sign. Because when the clouds went down, I had already seen tourists going up the mountain.

They told Yunluo that the road closure at the south entrance had just been lifted ==, is this a game of Yunluo! It is only 1 km from the south exit, and Yunluo from the north exit is 5 km, which is not scientific!

After waiting for a while next to the main road at the south entrance, the mushroom drove to the oldfaithful, put the clouds down in the blacksandbasin, continued to visit the hot springs, then watched the sunset, and finally walked 20 minutes to the oldfaithfullodge, all of which were small cabins, small with only a double bed, and the clouds and mushrooms were sleeping on the floor.

Dinner is more reliable today, the lodge here has Chinese food, about $12 for a full meal, grilled chicken, broccoli and potatoes, the key is to have rice! When eating, I also accidentally bumped into the eruption of the old faithful geyser outside the window, the sky is dark, it is not easy to take pictures, don't worry, Ming'er will wait for an old faithful eruption drop!

Today, when going down the mountain from the east side of the big prism to the road, I found two police cars maintaining order, and when I walked back to the parking lot, I walked through a meadow, and the two yaks were 5 meters next to Yunluo, and the park patrol officer in the parking lot beckoned Yunluo to hurry up, away from the yaks, it seemed that they were two yaks that were lost.

The park patrol left to open up an area where all cars and pedestrians on the road had to give way to yaks. It wasn't until the yak was far away from the parking lot that order was restored.

I got up at 8 o'clock, opened the door and saw the clouds outside, slightly unhappy, after all, most of the scenery is still sunny and relatively clear, oldfaithfullodge had breakfast, looked at the schedule, the next eruption of the old faithful's geyser is 40 minutes later, 9:49, walk along the plank road in the nearby hot spring basin.

Spotting the geothermal scenery of Yellowstone on cloudy days is another charm. Sometimes Yunluo will walk down the boardwalk, which is the park ranger will remind Yunluo not to step into the basin, one side to prevent danger, although so far in history there is only one person who died because of falling into the hot spring cooking, but there are still some tourists every year burn accidents.

When the time is up, it is too late to walk back to the circle of plank roads around the old faithful, a little distance to see is not bad, this time the old faithful eruption is ten minutes later than expected, it is already a very unpunctual one, the eruption of twenty or thirty meters of water column and steam is still quite spectacular.

It's just that the capital is cloudy, so it feels a little gray to shoot, and it would be beautiful if you catch a volcanic eruption in this life!

After watching the eruption of the old faithful, Yunluo and Yan Shenyu began today's trip, the first stop was yesterday's unfinished trip overlooking the big prism because of the road closure, Yunluo is also hard enough, and accompanied the mushroom to climb the hill of fairyfallstrail again, and this time there are more tourists.

And most of them are still Chinese, and the gloomy weather began to rain in a drizzling manner, and the shawl that the clouds fell on India and bought all the time to take on the function of a poncho. The pace of climbing the mountain is vigorous, in contrast, Mushroom MM prides herself on being a little fool climbing the mountain, and Yunluo almost dragged her all the way up.

Went straight to the unobstructed observation deck found by Yunluo yesterday, and they were also shocked by everything in front of them, although it was cloudy, although it was raining, but the gray sky and earth set off the bright colors of the large prism.

I wanted to go straight to the mammoth hot spring, but I found that the road on the left of the figure 8 was closed again, again! Envelope! Road! The clouds have fallen, and it will take more than 60 miles!

I've been a little speechless by the road closures in Yellowstone these days! So head to the Norrisgeyser Basin, a hydrothermal basin called Porcelain, as it gets its name.

The whole plain is as white as porcelain, and at the entrance there is a fierce steam snorting and white mist billowing into the sky, where you can see green and brown streams, and small royal blue hot springs in the milky white rocks.

I met an old American here, and he took the initiative to help Yunluo take pictures, and when chatting, he mentioned that he was from Minnesota and had also been to China, and he had a suffocating expression for the fog in the capital, which was particularly interesting.

The most impressive and favorite place is Kashgar, Xinjiang, but unfortunately I couldn't go to the plateau for various reasons. China! beautiful！ He gave a thumbs up and said, Yunluo also thinks so, Yellowstone and other parks in the United States are indeed beautiful, but the plateau of Huaguo is the landform of the roof of the world unique to Huaguo, and other countries are envious!

On the way to the mammoth through the upper right half circle of the figure 8, I saw another atmospheric style of Yellowstone Park, the undulating mountains and the coniferous forests of the green ocean, and the continuous winding mountain roads test the driving skills of mushrooms.

Finally, let's talk about the mammoth hot spring, after visiting the mammoth hot spring, Yunluo was sad for a long time, in fact, there is a helpless regret in my heart, an earthquake in 2002 made the mammoth hot spring "dead", the water source was exhausted, and the entire thermal spring ecosystem was dead, and now all I see is dry calcified rock and dead wood.

Filled with the smell of desolation, only a trace of hot water gushing out of the ground, moistening a piece of color, eclipsed, but from this only hot spring flow area, you can imagine how spectacular the mammoth hot spring will be "alive" as a landmark of Yellowstone National Park, beyond the spectacular existence of the Great Prism Hot Spring.

Perhaps there is no comparable landscape on the whole planet. But it's dead, and you can't see it in its former glory until you travel back in time. This mood is a bit like Yunluo's feelings when she loved Audrey Hepburn for the first time when she first watched the Roman holiday more than ten years ago, but after looking up the information, she found out that she had died in 92.

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