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The boardwalk winds by a hot pool in Norris Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park.
View large - 'Norris Geyser Basin' On Black
View the entire Yellowstone and Tetons - Sept 2007 Set
View my - Most Interesting according to Flickr
Bernie D suggested a Monument Basin shot in B&W. I'm not sure this is what he meant because that other shot was more uniform. This came out more "busy" than I normally like in an image, but just because I like my photo stream to be a little mixed up, I'm posting for a change.
The Midway Geyser Basin was thick with mist when we visited one early morning at Yellowstone. I liked the lines and textures of the bacteria that thrive in this unreal super-heated geyser basin. Lots of lens cleaning that day 😁
A five mile long one way loop road travels through the Rainbow Basin. Since parts of the road require 4 wheel drive and high clearance, some people choose to walk it as this man and his dogs chose to do.
Happy Slider Sunday!
On our way back from exploring today, we took a four-wheel drive through Yankee Basin outside of Ouray. It was another great drive with amazing views all along the way. There is a stream next to the road that also gave us some nice waterfall opportunities. We read online before we came on the trip that July is the best month to see wildflowers in the mountains. Boy were they right. The mountains were full of colorful flowers on every trail we went on during this trip. There are so many areas to explore around Silverton and Ouray. I can't wait until my next trip back.
Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America at 86m below sea level. The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of "bad water" next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal honeycomb shapes.
DEATH VALLEY CALIFORNIA
At -282 feet, Badwater Basin is the lowest point in North America. When we first visited Death Valley in 2018, the salt flats were a blinding white in delicately formed polygons. On this trip, I was disappointed to see the flats now had a darker red/brown coloration. The polygon shapes remained, but were now heaved and broken with debris scattered across the surface. Gone were the delicate white salt crystals. Several people suggested the surface damage occurred when ground water rose up through the salt combined with frost heaving during winter cold spells. Contamination by frequent dust storms may have resulted in the salt having a darker coloration.
This trail is 10.9 kilometer moderately for around 4 hours. The weather was pretty hot like 25 to 30 degree. I found there is a lot of flowers on everywhere near to the mountains. It's good worth it.
The setting sun's golden light highlight the unique shapes and formations found across the expanse of Cottonball Basin of Death Valley in California.
Late summer early light dawns over Blue Lake and the ragged peaks surrounding the Sabrina Basin. A bit windy on this morning, eliminating any chance of a great sunrise reflection in the lake. The view is hard to top in the Sierra, no matter the conditions.
John Muir Wilderness. Kings Canyon NP boundary at the peak tops.
This is the entire basin.
Something is wrong in this image and I know it can be corrected but I just don't have the Photoshop in my computer. So I just leave it as it is. If you can spot it, please write it in the comment section. :)
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Franciona Notch State Park, NH
A sunny and warm winter morning made for some good time to explore the coastline yesterday along with my son. The Minas Basin is an interesting site to see rock formations that are sculpted by the world's highest tides.
One of my main motivations for exploring the White Rims trail was to get to the edge of Monument Basin, a series of valleys with numerous pillars of Organ Rock formation (with the deep red/ orange color and fluted rims) usually capped by White Rim Sandstone. Most pictures of this wonderful basin are taken from the Grand View area of Island in the Sky, the mesa to the right in this view, with Junction Butte on the left. I didn't manage to catch the best light here, with the sun sinking behind Junction Butte well before the golden hour, but was happy with this 5-shot stitch panorama. Most of the isolated pillars have been climbed by intrepid rock climbers.
The salt flats in Badwater Basin in Death Valley are quite amazing. The basin covers over 200 square miles, and its lowest point is 282 feet below sea level. Sediment dropped by the wind mixes with the salt and is eroded by the wind. It is interesting that in some locations in the basin the sediment is scarcely visible and in other spots it is prominent.
Red Gulch Road crosses Red Basin southwest of Shell Wyoming in the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains. This photo was taken along the Red Gulch/Alkali National Backcountry Byway in Bighorn County.
The Norris Geyser Basin is the hottest geyser basin in the park and is located near the northwest edge of Yellowstone Caldera near Norris Junction and on the intersection of three major faults. The Norris-Mammoth Corridor is a fault that runs from Norris north through Mammoth to the Gardiner, Montana, area. The Hebgen Lake fault runs from northwest of West Yellowstone, Montana, to Norris. This fault experienced an earthquake in 1959 that measured 7.4 on the Richter scale (sources vary on exact magnitude between 7.1 and 7.8; see 1959 Yellowstone earthquake). Norris Geyser Basin is so hot and dynamic because these two faults intersect with the ring fracture zone that resulted from the creation of the Yellowstone Caldera of 640,000 years ago.
This shot was taken from Governor Basin looking down to the road in the distance that goes up to Yankee Boy Basin. Roads to both basins (over 11,000 feet) were constructed by mining companies, though today they are used more frequently to access camping sites, hiking trails, meadows of wildflowers and spectacular scenery. The two peaks (from l to r) are Teakettle Mountain (13,819) and Potosi Peak (13, 786).
For this trip we passed through Yellowstone twice staying there overnight each time. The park is so big that each time we get to go back try to stay in the various different 'quadrants' so we can see more of it each time.
Here using the CPL filter the colors and details there in the basin area were lovely there under the cloudy skies.
Considering the forecast was for clear sunny day, the clouds near sunset was an added bonus.
The patterns and colors there in the minerals are fun to compose around ... I think ;)
I wish that I could tell you what peak this baby is, could be a part of Burroughs, I just don't know for sure, but it waits for you to exit the forest at the end of the Glacier Basin Trail and it's magnificent. There is a pack in campground here that folks who are going to summit Rainier set up camp at. The next day they will climb to Sherman and try and get some sleep, get up at 1 or 2 and climb to be at the summit at dawn and then back down here to revel in the experience. I saw several exuberant and exhausted hikers coming down. Hat's off to them. :-)
Originally called simply “The Park”, this beautiful little valley, Walker’s Basin, was named for Joseph Reddford Walker who was a pathfinder and scout for General Fremont. Walker came through this area in 1834 when he came down the San Joaquin Valley from Monterey and led his party out of the valley and over the pass which was also named for him…Walker Pass. The first settlers came to Walker’s Basin long before roads came. The trail leading up Walker’s Basin Creek through the Basin and over the mountain pass was the route of the Union Soldiers during the Civil War as they journeyed between Fort Tejon and Fort Independence (near Bishop in northern California). This northeast looking view was taken from the mountain to the south along the Caliente Bodfish Road.
Walker Basin is a triangular-shaped alluvial basin bounded on the west by the Breckenridge fault (not visible in this photo) and on the east by Greenhorn Mountains bedrock escarpment (which is visible in photo). Late Quaternary alluvial and fluvial deposits comprise the floor of Walker Basin and abut the steep, east-facing bedrock escarpment along the Breckenridge fault. The Breckenridge fault dies out southward at Rankin Ranch.
Very easy to see why Badwater Basin draws in the crowds. This particular formation was a little further south from the herds. It wasn't too long after this visit that the area was covered in water.
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