More Mineral Deposits. Note the Curved Grey Line Just Aove the Buildings Center. The Road Going North Out of the Park Follows This Valley of The Gardner River.
“People entered the park and became polite and cozy and fakey to each other because the atmosphere of the park made them that way. In the entire time he had lived within a hundred miles of it he had visited it only once or twice.
Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, WY. What the Narrator says is true of my fellow tourists at these springs. I found my self “striking up conversations” with many different people, and even talking to and helping children! For example, one knowledgeable man, seeing me take so many pictures, decided I was interested in learning more. He took the time to explain how YNP itself was essentially a giant “caldera”, or “basin” that had “sunk down’ in the center of the surrounding high mountains. This formed a high ring of mountains all around a considerably lower park. He showed me, from a high board walkway, like this one, how to look at the mountains to the North (above photo) to actually see this was true!
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