It's Hard To Believe That We Must Continue To Drop In Elevation To Reach the Center of Yellowstone National Park.
“The road ahead is foggy. It seems like a cloud has drifted into the valley, which isn’t really a valley at all but more of a mountain pass.“ Photo at ?Lulu Pass, Several miles East of
Cooke City, MT. I suggest you continuously watch the elevation numbers given at bottom of each photo capton. You will see that we continue to go to lower elevations. Athough this seems strange, it illustrates that Yellowstone National Park Is Actually in a Low "Caldara", that is surrounded on all sides by high mountains! Why? Are there are some pretty serious geological reasons for all this? Recall that YNP has gobs of geyser, hot springs, hot mud pools. This thermal and volcanic activity is associated with an underlying geological "hot spot". This Hot Spot, eons ago, was sufficiently severe to have pushed UP a whole area much, much larger than YNP itself. This "push-up" was perhaps a mile higher than we see today. Subsequent to this "push-up", the "hot spot" receeded, and the center of the push-up, now Yellowstone Park, really a valley, settled to the lower park found today! This of course left high rocky mountains in a ring all around the park. The Beartooth Range is part of this ring of mountaions. Photo needed for this passage. Snow covered mountain may be the Beartooth? Does any one know?
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(Photo = 106-0660c ...... ZMM Page = 122 ...... WayPt = 157i 7573ft. Photo at = 155`|w|' 8062ft)