DAY THIRTEEN | THERE SHE BLOWS!!

Old Faithful

There she blows!! As we walked past the Yellowstone Lodge Old Faithful erupted as if welcoming us into the park. BEYAH!!!!! We started out our day with a rude awakening by Gar-Bear’s phone in wake up call. EEEE EEEE EEEE EEEE. ENOUGH!! Following the sub par breakfast provided by the hotel, if you could call it that, we pulled out of the hotel 9:00 AM. As we made our way to the national park of Yellowstone, we were confronted by our first obstacle. A stampede of bicyclists flooded the road and really pissed all of us off. The road was not designed for two lanes of large RV’s, buses, vans, cars and then bicyclists on one side forcing everyone to go around them. All the way to Old Faithful we had to avoid hitting the bicyclists along with passing vehicles. However, once we reached Old Faithful, they were nowhere to be found.

Hot Springs

We then made our way into a clearing between the lodge and Old Faithful where we listened to our professor’s lecture us about the geysers, paint pots, fumerals and hot springs. Unfortunately that spot was infested with very angry biting ants which tried to make our legs their lunch. Following the epic lecture, we were given our task for the day: eat lunch, do a one page blended drawing of design strategies based around the Yellowstone Lodge, and then do another one page blending drawing in color pencil of the different geothermal processes around Old Faithful.

View of the Tetons on the drive to the campsite

We were given three hours to complete all of the tasks. At 3:00 we met back up to do a lay down of our drawings. After talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the drawings, we loaded the vans up and headed down to the Grand Tetons. The drive was reasonably short compared to the full day drivings with numerous pit stops that we had been doing before. As we broke through the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park, we were confronted by the majestic mountains that are the Grand Tetons. We reached our campsite around 6:00 where everyone did the routine tent setup in record time.   After eating dinner and being reminded that we were in bear and moose country, we hit the tents for the night.

Setting up camp in the Grand Tetons

Garrett and Sarah