First geysers, there's a bunch before ya get to the Big Cheese AKA Old Faithful....

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Another geyser field next to the Firehole River, which drains into the Madison. When I put my hand into the Madison I was surprised it wasn't that cold, now I knew why.

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Turns out the Nez Perce were through this country, on their 1877 flight to avoid imprisonment on a reservation...

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Finally, the primary objective of this whole interrupted mission....

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Thar she blows! Sorta anticlimactic actually, much less so if you're waiting around for the skies to clear for two more eruptions.....

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What she looks like between rounds.... my entirely unscientific opinion is as long as Old Faithful is still doing her thing every ninety minutes give or take, the caldera ain't about to go off anytime soon.

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"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744