 In the previous episode of Winter in Yellowstone, we took you with us on an adventure hiking the Fountain Paintpot Trail within the Lower Geyser Basin. We enjoyed and learned about 4 different hydrothermal features including geysers, mudpots, fumaroles and hot springs. In today's episode, we will take you up to the gorgeous terraces of Mammoth Hot Springs. Good morning, we are about to leave Mammoth Hot Springs Lodge here and getting ready to start our adventure for the day. Our first stop is going to be this cool spot here. This is an old picture. This is also an old picture and you can see the ladies with their stylish dresses. Fancy. Today we are going to also snow shoe and this is what we are doing. We are here at the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel and we are going to walk this way, this way, this way and then we are going to do the upper terraces look all with this motion. We are trying out these face masks today. We are headed to Mammoth Hot Springs today. We are going to go through the main terrace and the upper terrace. We have these comfort masks today too to try to keep the wind and breathe in from fogging up our glasses at the same time. River Ponds Trail. This is a neat walk, many skis. Okay, off we go. Off we go. I'll drink water for my day while I finish. We've got this cool looking rock on the right and then the terraces are straight in front of me. So apparently this thing that I called Cool Rock is a dormant hot spring cone and it's called Liberty Cap. Really beautiful. Ninja man. Do you like your mask? I do. It takes a little bit to get it to the point where it doesn't fog up your glasses but I don't know there, it's super tough and convenient. So these are the terraces in front of us, Mammoth Hot Springs terraces. Parts of the terraces are covered in snow which makes it look more beautiful. Now we're going to head out to do the upper terrace loop. So we realized that the snowshoes are not going to work on the boardwalk because there are a couple of stairs coming up and yeah so the thing here we're just going to walk up the boardwalks and once we get to the start of the loop then we'll have to put them back in. I'm going to show you where we put them now. Alex do you want to turn? Sure. There we are. That's one of the reasons I love these Osprey bags because they have this clip here. So we used it to clip the snowshoes. You've got these two holes here. Take this little piece all the way and then just use this to hold up. That should be good. It holds pretty well all the way. And if we over extend the elastic I'm sure they'll sell us some other elastic at some point too. So we'll do what we're doing. Let's go. Alrighty. There are some stairs. Here is Minerva churras. This is what it looks like when it's not covered in snow. And this is what it looks like right now. It was named after the Roman goddess of art Minerva. Wow. This view is spectacular. Here is probably a better view of Minerva. God this is slippery. Actually the SD card on the GoPro is full even though I deleted the folders this morning. It seems like the metadata was still there. So I'm just switching to Alex's Google phone. Yep. He's up there. And this view in front of me is very unique. This boardwalk going up is pretty tricky. We don't have spikes to help with the accent but you can see people kind of just relying on the edges as a hand hold. And then pretty much using the edges of the stairs here because they're pretty flat. So my technique is one foot here. My hand on this hand hold and then just find a way up. And ultimately the GoPro is very practical and easier to handle this type of situations. Let's do this one again. Not that. I think the steps down downstairs were a little bit trickier. This one seems to be okay. I think. Here's Alex going down. A lot easier right? Safe. Because apparently from that point on no foot traffic is allowed and we do have to either have snowshoes on or cross country skis. That's the sign for no foot traffic. They even have fake grass before you start. So we started the upper loop terrace. We got to a point here. And I kind of decided that I'm not really up for it. It's getting a little bit late and I still want to get to the next stop and enjoy it and kind of in wind. And I know if we were to do this we are going to be a little bit short on time. And with that we are skipping the upper terrace loop. And I hope that you guys enjoyed today's episode of Winter in Yellowstone. And if you did consider subscribing to our channel for weekly vlogs about hiking and backpacking. You're trekking paths Habiba and Alex and we'll see you soon on another adventure.