yellowstone national park ... in HD!

The sights, the sounds, but luckily not the sulphurous *smells* of beautiful yellowstone national park.
Maybe not the best yellowstone video on youtube, but it's mine.
in order of appearance are: a human with a camera (the most common sight in yellowstone), elk, bison, cold water rapids/streams/waterfalls, boiling water pools, geyser landscape, hot springs, hot lake, bacteria lake, hot streams, bubbling mudpots, black dragon and churning caldrons, cooking hillside, more hot springs, steaming fumeroles and lakes, hot stream empties into cold stream, geysers, volcano vent, pink cone geyser and old faithful geyser.
shot sept 13, 2009, temps average in the 60s. hot steam helped ward off the cold wind. although yellowstone can be frigid, there is an abundance of plant life and bacteria from the heated ground and water. in some areas the trees die from the roots up because the ground is too warm. in addition to overpowering noxious gasses, the geothermal features can contain the brain eating amoeba "naegleria fowleri", which i would have known if i'd read the park guide before standing in the steam to shoot these videos. no harm done, luckily.
not a place for pets, small children or clumsy adults, one false step could land you in a boiling pit. or a big gust of wind could come along and you could lose your hat in it (i saw this happen, so... beware!)
bison can run 35mph and like to gore people to death. driving park roads not for the faint of heart with many steep inclines and dropoffs. and charging bison. the whole area is prone to wildfire (a lightning strike started a fire the day i was there), and sits atop an approx 1300 square mile volcano caldera that will probably explode and destroy the entire western u.s. any minute. all and all, well worth a visit and very educational!
http://www.nps.gov/yell/index.htm

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[Chibiusa1986]

This entire park is a house of death!

[wagonqueen]

@Chibiusa1986 cool, huh?!

[catogtag]

beautyful

[purdyquibb]

@Chibiusa1986 LOL. That was funny.

[freerunsnah]

WOOOOOOOOW