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| Line between heaven & hell - one of the geyser filled landscapes in Yellowstone |
The line between heaven and hell is truly beautiful. Provided that you imagine heaven to be an alpine valley, where crystal clear lakes reflect green pine covered mountains with snow capped peaks; where hundreds of wild game walk around in tall yellow grasslands under azure blue skies dotted with cotton white clouds. And that hell is pictured as a hot hellhole spitting hellfire and rivers of flowing molten lava. And of course, that you're standing at Yellowstone.
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| Buffalo herd near the North-East entrance of Yellowstone |
This is the world where transparent aquamarine green and blue pools entice you to dip your toe in its coolness; where mountain streams meander around rocky cliffs to feed huge lakes; where herds of various wildlife graze; and where majestic waterfalls form rainbow stripes on sheer rock faces creating an earthly paradise.
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| The Grand Canyon of Yellowstone - taken from the brim of the Lower falls |
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| The wonderful blues of Yellowstone Lake |
You know something is wrong though, when it smells like a chemistry experiment gone wrong. The sulphuric odor is omnipresent whenever there's a geyser spouting like a hot kettle on the stove. The bubbling pools of acid water coming out of the "springs" tell you of the delicate equilibrium of 'mother earth' - the pressurized magma underneath fighting against the solid top mantle.
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| The Old Faithful |
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| Yellowstone Lake - Red & Blue |
Yellowstone National Park - the first national park in the US. Here the number of geysers amount to more than the entire world's combined. You might just take a hike along an unnamed pathway and find gases spilling coming out of ground like a chimney of a steam engine. You will sight water/mud boiling while over it various chemicals evaporates into a huge mass of smoke. If you want to see geysers throwing pressurized water more than 50 feet up in the air you can depend on the Old Faithful, which erupts every hour or so.
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| Biker lady at Yellowstone |
