Belgian-based Russian writer Aleksandr Skorobogatov
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Mammoth Hot Springs is probably the most exquisite part of Yellowstone National Park. This place is as colorful as massive. Formed during thousands of years of thermal activity, it’s still alive and changing. Some...
Yellowstone geysers come, as they say, in all shapes, colours, forms and sizes. Some have names, some are nameless. Some are known throughout the world, while other ones remain anonymous. No place on Earth could boast...
One thing which is probably even more remarkable in Yellowstone than all its bisons and sneaky bears, is color. Or better — colors. Because Yellowstone is one huge color-nuthouse. It is this place on...
I did not know that, as Walter Sobchak would say. The fact that there is no guarantee of my safety in bear country came definitely as a surprise. First of all, I did not...
That was the first time when me and my American buddy decided not to plan our trip through U.S. in advance (which we normally do when I come over to visit him and his...
Yellowstone hot springs are really hot: water temperature in some of them exceeds the boiling point (which is 94°C at the Yellowstone elevation).
Trees of YellowstoneThere is something about these trees of Yellowstone, some literally cooked alive on thermal grounds, where the soil temperature could reach almost 100°C, some suffocated from minerals, which have hardened in their ‘veins’, fatally blocking the absorption of water and nutrients, and some still alive.
Once in Yellowstone, the first thing you bump into will almost certainly be a bison. Or bisons, a lot of bisons, as with the herd of more than 4.000 pieces they’re literarily everywhere.
But we were lucky, and despite some snow along the road it was open. This highway is eligible for the State Scenic Highway System and is indeed one of the greatest rides I’ve ever seen.
After the night at the Angels Camp, we took California State Route 4 to pass Sierra Nevada. What we didn’t thought of was that this highway is often closed due to snow, elevation and narrowness, especially so in the winder, but sometimes even from November to May.
photography / road to Yellowstone
Road to Yellowstone: through Sierra Nevada (part 1)
December 11, 2013
photography / road to Yellowstone
Road to Yellowstone: through Sierra Nevada (part 2)
December 11, 2013
