[2013-western-us]
Day 45: July 31, 2013: Yellowstone Day 2 and Tetons Part 2
We don’t know how long the Indian Pond Trail in Yellowstone was, but we are pretty sure it was our longest hike thus far on this trip (We later found out that it is called the Storm Point trail and is about 2 miles long). Cody was super tough on this hike. We started this hike at 3:45 and ended by 5. He didn’t cry at all or even ask to get picked up. Cody and Brooke ran the first ten minutes of this hike. I couldn’t believe they still had any energy left for the rest of the hike. Indian Pond is not just a normal pond. It is more evidence of geothermal activity. The sign stated that the ancient geyser had experienced “hydrothermal blowout.” Instead of releasing steam gradually the ground water flashed to steam so violently that it blasted out hundreds of feet of overlying rock that still lines the pond.
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