Last week Kyle recieved an e-mail from his buddy (Ken) who lives in Seattle asking if we would like to go to Yellowstone with him. I will be honest, it was a little bit of short notice for me, and I wasn't all that excited to go, but we decided to be spontaneous and went! It was a fun trip! I am glad that we decided to go!
We left on Friday morning around 11. After a few road blocks due to the pioneer day parade we made it to the freeway and were on our way. It only took us about 5 hours to get there, so that was nice. We were expecting a longer drive, but it was nice. We camped in the Targhee National Forest just south of Island Park, Idaho. We set up camp, which included our new tent.
Our other tent is a very nice and very cozy tent.
It is a great backpacking tent, lightweight and small. But the top is all mesh and we thought that it wouldn't be warm or dry enough (there was a chance of rain in the forecast) for this trip.
Kyle set off to REI and purchased the Kelty Yellowstone Tent.
It was kind of a pricey piece of camping
gear, but it was worth it. It rained for a good part of the day and night on saturday. We were in
Yellowstone all day, so I was nervous that all of our stuff was going to be soaked when we got back to camp. But the tent did well, and not a drop
of rain was inside our tent when we got back!
So, we camped on Friday night and woke up very very early on saturday morning to head into the park. Ken promised us that if we woke up early we wouldn't be dissapointed. We got into the park around 6 AM. We made our way to Old Faithful one of the first things because we wanted to go before it got too crowded.
Honestly, we were
a little dissapointed. Because we went early in the morning it was still cool, and mostly all we could see was steam. Luckily while we were walking around later we were able to see it spout off again and were much more impressed.
Because we got to the park before most others we did see a lot of wildlife. We saw a bald eagle perched on a tree, a lot of bison, and a couple of bears. We weren't able to get any pictures of the bears because they were too far away by the time all the other cars in front of us moved along.
Kyle and I had both never been to Yellowstone, so it was a fun trip. Thanks for inviting us Ken!
Here is a slideshow of some of the other highlights of our trip, enjoy!
3 comments:
That looks like it was a lot of fun. I am jealous. I haven't ever been there either and can't wait to get the chance.
Rebekah! We were there this weekend, too! We totally could have seen you. :( Dang it. Oh, well. Lots of fun!
Great pictures. We've never been there and really enjoyed them, including Kyle's commentary.
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