July 31
On July 21st, we each paid $12.00 for a 7 day National Park bicycle pass. It could be used to get, by bicycle, into Grand Tetons NP and Yellowstone provided you are out before the permit expires. For the full 7 days of our park passes, we rode or walked around with our mouths gaping and a camera never far from grasp.
In a rare exercise of parsimony, we rolled through the west entrance (in our case, exit) of Yellowstone at 5:30pm on July 30. We only needed to pedal 40-ish miles to West Yellowstone and we spent the day making our wandering way. We stopped to see Old Faithful erupt again and also tour the geyser/spring basin there.
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| Old Faithful Inn...a little heavy handed on the woodwork for my taste. |
Then we rode a 1.5 mile "backcountry" bicycle path over to another steamy feature. We swam twice in the Firehole River (delicious). We were both saturated with visual stimuli and needed a break from the grandeur and beauty...also, we needed to get away from Vacationland.
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| SQUEE....It's babies! |
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| You actually cross the state line within the Park boundary |
Today we pedaled 71 miles over to Ennis, MT which is wildly popular with the fly-fishing crowd. We followed the Madison River passed an earthen avalanche caused by a quake in the 50's, dodged an electrical storm at the Cameron Post Office and finally rolled into Ennis about 6pm. Talk about burning the midnight oil...this is late for us. Not quite out of Vacationland, but getting close.
In a rare exercise of parsimony, we rolled through the west entrance (in our case, exit) of Yellowstone at 5:30pm on July 30. We only needed to pedal 40-ish miles to West Yellowstone and we spent the day making our wandering way. We stopped to see Old Faithful erupt again and also tour the geyser/spring basin there. 
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