From grandlooprd, drive about 3.5 miles to the direction of the old faithful geyser and arrive at the Grand Prism. The parking lot of this point viewing point is also very large. After getting off the car and crossing the wooden bridge, you can walk along the boardwalk. You can feel its colors and steaming up close from the east side of the Grand Prism Hot Spring. In fact, this hot spring is too big.

Moreover, there is a lot of steam, so you can't really feel the beauty of the large prism when you look close to the plank road. You must look down from a high place.

On the hillside to the west of the Great Prism, that is, the mountain in the coniferous forest in the distance seen in the picture above. That mountain cannot pass through from the Great Prism because it is all the hot spring basin and there are no trails or small paths. In fact, the hillside is located on the west side of the Great Prism, on the side of a fairyfallstrail that runs north and south.

The south entrance of this dirt road (the entrance connected to the main road) is more than 1 kilometer south of the Great Prism Point. There is also a small parking lot. The fairyfallstrail is the fairyfallstrail. Walk about 1 kilometer north to start climbing, and then you can overlook the Great Prism more closely.

In fact, when Yun Luo and Yan Chenyu came to the south of fairyfallstrail, the road was closed! Again! This trail (the car cannot drive, can only walk) was blocked! The luck was too bad. In fact, when Yun Luo looked down at the mountain on the east side, he felt something was wrong, because ⌒, w≡ww. I didn’t see anyone on the fairyfalltrail road.

Logically speaking, there should be a considerable number of tourists who would choose to climb the mountain and overlook the Great Prism. However, there were two or three hiking out of the south entrance, which showed that there was still hope to enter! So Yunluo studied Googlemap and found the north entrance of this trail. Without saying a word, he got in the car and went straight to the north entrance!

There is still a long way to get in the north exit, so I can only walk. There are 3 miles away from the hillside on the west side of the Great Prism, which is 5 kilometers away. Yunluo asked Mushrooms and the others to check in at the oldfaithfullodge hotel and have something to eat, and then two hours later, pick up Yunluo at the south exit of the trail.

I carried the camera and started walking the trail with almost no pedestrians all the way south.

I met a Canadian couple 1 kilometer away to go to fairyfalls. Yun Luo walked faster. After surpassing them, there was no trace of anyone. The weather began to become gloomy. Yun Luo was a little worried about the rain and accelerated his pace. After walking for nearly an hour, he could see the hot air coming out of the large prism from afar. He saw a sign at the fork of the road.

The other fork road leads to fairyfalls. It is a dead end. If Yunluo returns the same road, it means that he has gone so far in vain. And he cannot meet with Mushroom mm at the Nankou that he had made an appointment in advance, so he had to break through. Because he is the only one, he is still quite nervous. First, he is afraid that he will really meet a bear. Although it is perfect, Yunluo probably explained it. Second, he is afraid that he will meet the forest park patrolman and ordered Yunluo to return the same road.

I felt quite silly. But the more I was afraid, the more excited I was. After walking for 10 minutes, I finally arrived at the hillside on the west side of the Great Prism. There were several roads that people stepped out, and the roads on the hillside were scattered. Just rely on my own feelings to find an excellent perspective to overlook the Great Prism and tell my friends clearly.

There is a place where you can take a look at the whole view of the large prism without any obstruction of trees!

Because I broke in illegally, I was a little scared when taking pictures. I was afraid that the park manager below would find out that a police car passed by at the foot of the mountain for a while, which made Yun Luo nervous. Later I learned that the police car drove in was a road sign. Because when Yun Luo went down the mountain, I saw tourists going up the mountain.

They told Yunluo that the road closure at the south entrance had just been lifted ==, is this playing with Yunluo? It was only 1 kilometer from the south entrance, but Yunluo in the north entrance had walked 5 kilometers, which was unscientific!

After waiting for a while, Mushroom drove to pick up Yun Luo to Oldfaithful, put Yun Luo down in the blacksandba private black sand basin, continued to stroll in the hot springs, then watched the sunset, and finally walked 20 minutes to Oldfaithfullodge. It was full of cabins, with only a double bed, Yun Luo and Mushroom were all sleeping on the floor.

Today's dinner is more reliable. The lodge here has Chinese food, which is about $12 for a full meal, with roasted chicken, broccoli and potatoes. The key is rice! While eating, I accidentally bumped into the old faithful geyser outside the window. It was dark and it was not easy to take photos. Don't worry, I will wait for the old faithful eruption tomorrow!

Today, when we were descending from the mountain on the east side of the Great Prism to the road, we found two police cars maintaining order. When we walked back to the parking lot, we passed through a grassland. Two yaks were 5 meters away from Yunluo. The park patrolman in the parking lot called Yunluo to go there quickly. It was farther from the yaks. It seemed that the two lost yaks were.

The park patrolman left and opened up an area, and all cars and pedestrians on the road had to give way for the yaks. The order was not restored until the yaks were away from the parking lot.

I woke up at around 8 o'clock and opened the door and saw the clouds outside. I was a little unhappy. After all, most scenery is brighter on sunny days. Oldfaithfullodge had breakfast and looked at the schedule. The next eruption of the Old Faithful Geyser was 40 minutes later, at 9:49, walking and walking on the nearby Heat Spring Basin Plank Road.

The discovery of the cloudy yellow stone ground-heat scenery is also another charm. Sometimes Yunluo will walk down the plank road, which is why the park administrator will remind Yunluo not to step into the basin. To prevent danger, although only one person has died of boiling after falling into a hot spring, some tourists still have scald accidents every year.

After the time came, it was too late to walk back to the plank road around Lao Zhongshi. It was nice to see it a little distance. This time Lao Zhongshi's eruption was ten minutes later than expected, and it was already very untimely. The water column and steam at twenty or thirty meters of eruption were still quite spectacular.

It’s just that the capital is cloudy, so it feels a bit gray when photographed. It will be beautiful if you catch a volcanic eruption in your life!

After watching Lao Zhensheng erupt, Yunluo and Yan Chenyu started their itinerary today. The first stop was yesterday's journey overlooking the Grand Prism, which was not completed due to the road closure. Yunluo was also very hardworking. He climbed the fairyfallstrail hill with Mushrooms again, and there were more tourists this time.

Moreover, most of them are Chinese. The gloomy weather began to rain. Yun Luo bought a shawl with him in India and then took on the function of a raincoat. The mountain climbing pace was vigorous. In contrast, Mushroom mm claimed to be a fool who climbed the mountain, and Yun Luo almost pulled her up all the way.

They went straight to the unobstructed observation deck that Yun Luo discovered yesterday. They were also shocked by everything in front of them. Although it was cloudy and rainy, the gray world further highlighted the bright colors of the large prism.

I originally wanted to go straight to the Mammoth Hot Spring, but I found that the upper left road in the 8-shaped shape was closed again, and the road was closed again! The clouds fell, and I had to go around more than 60 more fans!

The road closure in Huangshi Park these days has been a little speechless! So I went to Norris Sgey to take a walk, and the hot spring basin named Porcelain is named as scheduled.

The entire plain is as white as porcelain, and at the entrance is a fierce steam roaring sound, and white mist rushes into the sky. Here you can see green and brown streams, as well as small royal blue hot springs among the milky white rocks, like a fairyland!

I met an old American man here who took the initiative to doafavor to help Yunluo take photos. During the chat, he mentioned that he was from Minnesota and had also been to China. He showed a suffocating expression about the mist in the capital, which was particularly interesting.

The most impressive and favorite place is Kashgar, Xinjiang. Unfortunately, I was unable to go to the plateau for various reasons. china! Beautiful! He raised his thumb and said that Yunluo also felt that Huangshi and other parks in the United States were indeed beautiful, but the plateau of China is the unique landform of the world roof of China, and other countries cannot envy it!

I was really a little aesthetically exhausted when I watched the hot springs continuously these two days. On the way to the mammoth through the upper right half of the figure-8 shape, I saw another atmospheric look of Huangshi Park. The rolling mountains and coniferous forests like green oceans, and the continuous winding roads test the driving skills of mushrooms. When I encountered the observation deck with a wide viewing field, I naturally had to get off the bus and enjoy the wind.

Finally, let’s talk about the Mammoth Hot Spring. After visiting the Mammoth Hot Spring, Yun Luo was sad for a long time. In fact, he felt a helpless regret in his heart. An earthquake in 2002 made the Mammoth Hot Spring "dead", the water source was exhausted, and the entire thermal spring ecosystem accompanied by it died. What we see now is dry calcified rocks and dead trees.

Filled with a desolate atmosphere, only a trace of hot water poured out from the ground, nourishing a color and eclipsing it. But from this only hot spring water flow area, you can imagine how spectacular the Mammoth Hot Spring would be as a landmark once in Yellowstone National Park, beyond the spectacular existence of the Great Prism Hot Spring, which was the "life".

Perhaps there is no landform that can be compared with it on the entire earth. But it is dead, and unless it travels through time and goes back to the past, it will not be able to see its former glory with its own eyes. This mood is a bit like Yun Luo loved Audrey Hepburn when he first watched the Roman holiday more than ten years ago, but after searching for information, he realized that she had passed away in 1992.
Chapter completed!