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Yellowstone details

Photographs of Grand Prismatic Spring and the Lower Geyser Basin…

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Teton Pass and a Yellowstone evening

I watched the Yellowstone weather forecast for weeks before deciding to attempt a visit. The west entrance doesn’t even open until mid April. Then there is a very short window where most of the park is open but the crowds have yet to arrive. The weather often doesn’t cooperate with this schedule and snow remains a threat all the way to June.

After waking up in Idaho Falls, I took a detour to drive over Teton Pass for the first time and was rewarded with the most beautiful giant flakes of snow falling all around (and a highway that didn’t freeze). The weather remained gray as I arrived and began looking around Yellowstone. Then - just as I was about to give up and try again the next day - the sun came out from the clouds and everything was near perfect for photographs.

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Utah and Idaho

Photographs from a cold day on the road to Promontory, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and the City of Rocks Natural Reserve…

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Time to move on, time to get goin’

Photographs from a very rainy (and sometimes snowy) late April day spent on the road driving through the middle of Wyoming to Utah…

Post title: Tom Petty - Time to Move On

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