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...
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.
At the first night we’ve ended up at the Angels Camp (and I mean the camp, not the city, although I have to confess that the road took us first to some of the city’s bar for the local beer degustation).
That was the first time when me and my best friend decided not to plan our trip though the U.S. in advance (which we normally do when I come over visiting him and his lovely girlfriend). Actually, it was his idea: just hit the road and see where it’ll take us
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Road to Yellowstone: through Sierra Nevada (part 1)
December 11, 2013
