Vats used to create the brewers beer for high west distillery
High west distillery uses a hybrid copper still from Scotland (vs most American bourbon distilleries who use Louisville-based Vendome products), with a traditional copper pot followed by a small column still.
A tasting of some rarer products from High west distillery
Woke up to a snowy morning at Jackson Lake Lodge, as seen from our Cottage room.
Snowy Walkway
Willow Flats on a snowy morning
Overlooking oxbow bend
Oxbow Bend
A coyote spotted near Jackson Lake Junction
One of the smaller lakes between Jackson and Jenny lakes.
String lake, after a fruitless search for recently reported bear tracks
Overlooking Jenny Lake
A fox seen running about and dropping a turd...
The Episcopal Cheap of the Transfiguration. A local chapel built by Maud Noble so that local wouldn't have to travel into Jackson.
Sign seen at the Transfiguration Chapel, no levitating over the grass!
Menors Ferry was a twin hulled boat used to ferry passengers across the Snake River using a pulley system.
The well at Menors ferry.. Which was built down-stream from the outhouse.
Overlooking Blacktail Ponds
Bison on the snowy morning
Willow Flats on a much nicer day. Seen from the observation deck behind the Jackson Lake Lodge.
Do You Want to Build a Snowman? A snowman seen outside of one of the cottages at Jackson Lake Lodge.
The snow-capped Grand Tetons as seen from the observation deck at the Jackson Lake Lodge.
A Marmot seen outside of the National Museum of Wildlife Art
More Bison (or as some people call them, Buffalo)
Millers Bute from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
The only moose we saw, a statue at the National Museum of Wildlife Art.
Looking towards the Ski Slopes of Jackson Hole.
An arch made of Elk Antlers, at the town square of Jackson, WY.
The Lewis river, a roadside picture on the way into Yellowstone from the South entrance.
Elk found grazing at the intersection between West Thumb and Old Faithful near the south of the park.
Elk!
Elk: Look at me!
Duck Lake from an overview on the way to Old Faithful
Old Faithful, being faithful and steamy
Old Faithful erupts on schedule
Old Faithful erupting
A bison relaxing just off the walkway by the Old Faithful lodge. Many idiots approached too closely for selfies.
Infant Geyser
Old Faithful Lodge in the background of the Upper Geyser basin.
A spring at the upper Geyser Basin
Old Faithful Lodge in the background of the Upper Geyser Basin.
More of the alien landscape of the upper Geyser Basin
Blurb Blurb
Burbling colorful geysers
The Pump geyser and the colorful deposits it creates
The Sponge Geyser with the Old Faithful Lodge in the background
Upper Geyser Basin
The Doublet Pool and deposits
Upper Geyser Basin
Upper Geyser Basin
Silex Spring at the fountain paint pots
The Red Spouter at the Fountain Paint Pots
Fountain Geyser and the caldera in the background
More BISON!
Bison with red dogs, the term for bison calves.
Bison: What? I know your taking a picture of me.
Bison and their calves.
Looking back at the Fountain Paint Pots from the north.
The Firehole River next to the entrance to the Grand Prismatic Spring
The Firehole river receives 4000 gallons of runoff from the Excelsior geyser per minute
Firehole River
Excelsior Geyser Crater
The Excelsior Geyser remains shrouded in steam most of the day
Looking south towards Tromp Springs
The Grand Prismatic Spring remains shrouded in steam
The grand prismatic springs stunning colors are difficult to see from ground level, but creates amazing deposits around it
The Opal Pool and it's brilliant colors
The Turquoise Pond
The Great Fountain Geyser being quiet, it wasn't predicted to erupt for another 4-8 hours
The White Dome Geyser
Pebble Geyser
Artesia Geyser (or maybe Hopeful Geyser). Either way, I'm hopeful I'm right
Marmot off firehole
Tangled Creek feeds into Hot Lake
Mats of colorful bacteria form within the creek fed by the geysers and springs
Tangled Creek flowing into hot lake
The Grand Prismatic spring's amazing colors are difficult to see through the steam from ground level.
The Grand Prismatic spring's amazing colors are difficult to see through the steam from ground level.
Gibbon Falls
Gibbon Falls
Gibbon Falls
Steamboat Geyser in one of it's long-running lower-powered reuptions.
Cistern Spring is part of the water supply for Steamboat Geyser and will empty to refill the Steamboat Geyser's underground resvoir after an eruption.
The Norris Lower Basin
Minute Geyser
A giant common ravel
The Howling Mountain
The Howling Mountain
Obsidian Cliff, a National Landmark
Elks
Golden Gate
Golden Gate
The Rustic Falls along Glen Creek by the Golden Gate
Undine Falls
Mammoth Hot Springs main terrace from the overlook
Mammoth Hot Springs Main Terrace from the overlook.
Mammoth Hot Springs
Mammoth Hot Springs Main terrace
Mammoth Hot Springs Jupiter Terrace
Mammoth Hot Springs Jupiter Terrace
Mammoth Hot Springs Mound Spring
Mammoth Hot Springs Minerva Terrace
Mammoth Hot Springs Palette Springs
A crew who packed in their chainsaws on horseback to do tree maintenance on the hills
A Marmot perched on the Cleopatra Terrace
Mammoth Hot Springs Cleopatra Terrace
Mammoth Hot Springs Orange Spring Mound
Mammoth Hot Springs Highland Spring
Mammoth Hot Springs Highland Spring
Undine Falls
Undine Falls
A Black Bear seen just over the Yellowstone River
A Black Bear eating it's lunch of Elk
A Black Bear eating it's lunch of Elk
A Black Bear eating it's lunch of Elk
A Black Bear eating it's lunch of Elk
Pronghorn Deer
Bison!
Bison with last year's calves
A Bison in the road holding up traffic heading up into the Lamar Valley
Why did the coyote cross the road? To get to the other side of course.
A black bear seen wandering in a valley just west of Tower/Roosevelt
A black bear seen wandering in a valley just west of Tower/Roosevelt
Elk with velvet antlers
Elk with velvet antlers
A view of Blood Geyser and Flash Spring
Artist Paintpots
Artist Paintpots
Artist Paintpots
Bear tracks seen at the Artist Paintpots
Elk
A heard of bison with red dogs running down the road headed north from Fountain Springs
A pair of grizzly bears seen along the road heading from Maddison to Fountain Paintpots
A pair of grizzly bears seen along the road heading from Maddison to Fountain Paintpots
A pair of grizzly bears seen along the road heading from Maddison to Fountain Paintpots
Nevermore -- Seen at the Fountain Paintpots
Trees absorbing the silica from the springs turn white into a semi-petrified state
Silex Spring seen on a clearer day
This mud spring dries up as the summer progresses
Red Spouter
Red Sputer
A view of the snow-capped mountains in the distance overlooking the Yellowstone Caldera
The great fireplace at the Old Faithful Inn
Snow capped mountains in the distance behind West Thumb Lake
West Thumb Lake was still partially frozen on it's northern end
Mud Caldron
Mud Volcano
Mud Volcano
Dragon's Mouth Spring
Dragon's Mouth Spring
The Lower falls at the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
The Lower falls at the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone
