swalker
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We had a wonderful month-long trip to Yellowstone. We arrived on May 20 and departed for home on June 18. It was a long and wonderful trip. My two sisters joined my wife and me for the last couple of weeks of the trip. My friend Greg and my adorable 7 year old goddaughter were there for the last 3 days. We also had a visit from Jean and Honani, great friends who now live Montana.
The trip was truly wonderful. We had wonderful encounters with wildlife and truly amazing experiences watching geysers. We took a few trips into the back country, which I enjoyed tremendously.
In this thread, I will try to share (a bit at a time) a few of the experiences we had.
I will start with a wonderful day where we saw the Artemisia geyser erupt and then hiked the trail by it.
We had decided to hike (with wheelchair, of course) the trail from the Daisy geyser area to the Biscuit basin area. That is about a mile-long dirt path. It has wonderful scenery and views of many hidden thermal features.
While we were hiking it, we noticed that Artemisia was going off. That is a geyser I had never seen erupt before, so we stopped and watched it from a fantastic view point across the river from the geyser. It was absolutely wonderful.
We made our way to biscuit basis. I was riding in my Permobil C500S VS wheelchair for that part of the trip. My sister and wife had taken the wheelchair van to biscuit basis and then driven back to the old Faithful area where we started our journey.
When we got to biscuit basin, we did a thorough tour and my sisters and wife did the hike to Mystic falls. After that, they helped me unload the Magic Mobility X4 wheelchair from the van so we could try the trail that runs right next to the Artemisia geyser.
That trail is very difficult, and is a challenge, even in the X4 four wheel drive wheelchair. I enjoyed the trail immensely! I did almost flip the wheelchair once and I scared my sisters and my wife on a couple of occasions. But, we made it through just fine.
Here is a brief video of me coming down the trail from the Artemisia geyser. It was a lot scarier than it looks! I enjoyed it tremendously.
Zenfolio | Steven A. Walker | 2018 05 19 Yellowstone | Video 1
Steve
The trip was truly wonderful. We had wonderful encounters with wildlife and truly amazing experiences watching geysers. We took a few trips into the back country, which I enjoyed tremendously.
In this thread, I will try to share (a bit at a time) a few of the experiences we had.
I will start with a wonderful day where we saw the Artemisia geyser erupt and then hiked the trail by it.
We had decided to hike (with wheelchair, of course) the trail from the Daisy geyser area to the Biscuit basin area. That is about a mile-long dirt path. It has wonderful scenery and views of many hidden thermal features.
While we were hiking it, we noticed that Artemisia was going off. That is a geyser I had never seen erupt before, so we stopped and watched it from a fantastic view point across the river from the geyser. It was absolutely wonderful.
We made our way to biscuit basis. I was riding in my Permobil C500S VS wheelchair for that part of the trip. My sister and wife had taken the wheelchair van to biscuit basis and then driven back to the old Faithful area where we started our journey.
When we got to biscuit basin, we did a thorough tour and my sisters and wife did the hike to Mystic falls. After that, they helped me unload the Magic Mobility X4 wheelchair from the van so we could try the trail that runs right next to the Artemisia geyser.
That trail is very difficult, and is a challenge, even in the X4 four wheel drive wheelchair. I enjoyed the trail immensely! I did almost flip the wheelchair once and I scared my sisters and my wife on a couple of occasions. But, we made it through just fine.
Here is a brief video of me coming down the trail from the Artemisia geyser. It was a lot scarier than it looks! I enjoyed it tremendously.
Zenfolio | Steven A. Walker | 2018 05 19 Yellowstone | Video 1
Steve