After leaving Camp, we headed into Yellowstone for the day. We went in from the North and so it took several hours to get there. It was SUPER rainy on the way off and on. We decided against looking around too much when we got up to Mammoth because we would've been soaked to the bone. We asked them about swimming in the springs, and they said that it was too high at this point of year, so that was sad:( We headed on around the loop, and decided that we should figure out where to camp:/ We stopped at all the first come first serve campgrounds and weren't having much luck, but we kept our sprits up! Here was our first wild life sighting! Black bear and a cub. I know that it is hard to see, but it was kinda far away:)
We stopped for some pretty views
Elk on the way to Artist's Point
Our Chacos got some miles because of a misunderstanding...Justin wanted to show me Uncle Tom's trail. We saw a sign for it in the parking lot for Artist's point, so we followed the signs and started hiking. It was awhile before we saw another sign. We then descended the 328 steel steps to see the magnificent view of Lower Falls from that viewpoint. We enjoyed the view and it was marvelous, but after reaching the top, we still needed to hike all the way to Artist's point parking lot:( It was super fun and beautiful, but a little longer than we had planned.
Seriously one of my favorite pictures of this stud:) It is currently the background on my phone.
Me being sad that we took the wrong trail:)
Justin took this video while driving and was pretty proud of himself:)
We got a campsite in Bridge Bay at about 9pm. We felt lucky that it was open, and when the lady was getting us the info and assigning it to us, she said "I can't believe this campsite is still open, it's gorgeous and has a great view of the lake!" It was pitch black outside so we couldn't see much, but ate dinner and crawled into our tent snug as two bugs:)
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