After a restful night at the Mammoth Campground, we continued our normal routine of packing up our tent and sleeping bags and headed for Canyon after a short drive on the Upper Terrace Drive.
Along the way we stopped at Forces of the Northern Range for a quick and easy hike, and took a nice detour for a drive along the Blacktail Plateau Drive.
After that we made some quick stops at Calcite Springs and Tower Fall
before doing some exploring at Canyon. The views at Canyon were amazing.
Of course we'd seen pictures of the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, but there's nothing like seeing it in person.
We hiked most of the short trails along the canyon and enjoyed the scenery.
The only drawback to our visit there came when Eric nearly got into a fight with some idiot from Nevada. The guy was cutting through the vegetation on a very steep switchbacking trail. Eric tried to bite his tongue and not say anything, but the guy was just completely obnoxious. Finally Eric asked him, "why can't you just stay on the trail like everybody else"? To which the guy replied, "why can't you mind your own business"? Eric told him that when he insisted on causing damage to our National Parks he made it his business. The guy responded by saying, "where I'm from people mind their own business." Eric then just had to ask him where exactly he was from. This seemed to infuriate the guy and he intentionally cut the next switchback just so he could get right in our faces. After all that nothing happened, although we should have reported him to the rangers.
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