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Here is some of the concept design for the short film, Inkless, that I'll be editing in August. Christopher Brown did the illustrations.
And now for the trip back. Rather bittersweet, we all wanted to get back to our beds and be back in the city. At the same time we coming back to reality from this dream land that we have in United States. It's amazing how diverse this country is.
I would go back in a heartbeat.
Until the next one.
Didn't take that much video or photos because this hike was INTENSE. All caps. Four miles... 2600ft elevation gain... Got to see the tip of the highest peak - the Grand Teton.
Grand Tetons.
I feel like I am at a lost of words. I also feel like I can't ever bring anything that I took photo or video to justice, ever.
The Grand Tetons are just below Yellowstone Park. They are right by this beautiful glimmering lake. In which we got a small fishing boat and treaded the waters before a small storm came in.
Today was filled with driving around Yellowstone and seeing the sights. Which felt that we were in some sort of science documentary since there were so many strange things about Yellowstone that could only be in Yellowstone.
Acid water... geysers... almost post apocalyptic.
And then we got to see Old Faithful - which was strange having a huge group of people circle around this geyser at hour intervals and just sitting and waiting for it to go off. It was a very surreal moment.
Though my favorite part of Yellowstone was the Yellowstone Falls. We were at this area called 'Inspiration Point' and 'Artist Point' in which they were named rightly so. The colors with the blue waters were on point.
This is a short little post because most of the day was spent driving and going around Montana (and even into Idaho a little bit... to make it back into Wyoming). We stayed at the West Yellowstone KOA which was an impressive little campground.
We packed a lot to do today. We left Glacier National Park - which was my favorite park of the whole trip. We first hit hungry Horse Dam which was a nice stop and some great views of the river. We also realized the reason why Montana was called Big Sky Country.
After driving for a while we also did National Bison Range - which was pretty awesome view. There was a moment when we thought we would run out of gas during the park (it was like a mini safari). But nonetheless we made it with some great run ins with some Bison.
Going-to-the-Sun Road is a motorcyclists' dream. There was enough of a danger but also the view from being on the side of a mountain looking down in the valley was thrilling. The road is only open for a small section of the summer before it's closed due to the weather conditions (a combination of snow and mountains can make the road extremely dangerous.)
We were lucky that the full road was open, a recently so too.
We also got to see the highest peak at Glacier - Heaven's Peak.
This was by far my favorite hike that we did on the whole trip. We went through snow, waterfalls, and climbed 1600ft elevation in order to see a glacier. Absolutely stunning views as we hiked on the side of a mountain and got to see Grinnell Lake while doing it.
We also saw a bunch of wildlife like a mama bear and her cubs and a big horned sheep. I would do this again (once my legs get a little stronger...)
This was the first part of the trip - which was pretty easy considering what would come. It wasn't until the last 4 miles in which the trail shot straight up.
We were up so high and a lot of times we were sitting on the edge of a cliff. Completely unreal.
Finally here was the glacier. Smaller then what it has previously been in the old days but still rather impressive. Took us about 6 hrs to hike the total of 8 miles.
Today was a day for rest after yesterdays hike. Though I went on a mini hike to be about to see great views like this one -
This hike was beyond nuts.
We went a total of 12.6 miles roundtrip and the total elevation gain was about 1400ft. Even though it was a really tough trail the sites that we saw along the way took our breath away.
We started out in sunshine, hit some rain, got a little cold even in the summer, and saw a double rainbow.
We had a little of a late start - so right when the bugs were out and it was pretty hot. But that didn't take away at all the stunning views.
Halfway there it started a light rain (which to be honest was quite refreshing after going uphill). But when we reached Cracker Lake and seeing that amazing blue color, which the color is from the glacier rock that comes down, we were blown away.
It was moody weather but still refreshing. We put our feet in the water and it was ice cold (though no surprise there since it comes from snow).
As we were leaving the weather was even getting even more moody - but the pay off was great since we got to see a double rainbow and the mountains looked even more ominous.
So, how do you end a day like this? With a fire.
And now we finally reached our destination...
Glacier National Park...
In which its beauty will literally take your breath away. Amazing twists to the roads (make sure you don't ready your book while you are on here... not that you would be). We saw a couple wild horses roaming around before we actually entered the park. but even at the outskirts of the park were absolutely stunning.
At night we did some astrophotography. It was only a little cloudy, but the amazing fact about the middle of nowhere is that you can start seeing the stars even before the sun sets. In a dark place its surprising how bright that they can get.
We visited the Yellowtail Dam - which is right by the Big Horn Canyons. Right by here is also the Crow Indian Reservation. It was constructed near the end of 1944 and named Yellowtail after Robert Yellowtail who was the main opponent to having the dam being made.
Also side note - today was the summer solace. Being so far up north the sun didn't fully set until a little before 11pm.
Woke up to a beautiful clear blue sky after the night of intense hail rain.
We went to see Devil's Tower which has a mysterious mystery. The fact that only thing that scientists an agree on is that they don't know where it comes from. The best guess is that it used to be part of some volcano or part of some sort of lava. Some of the American Indian folklore about Devil's Tower is that a bunch of little girls were running away from a giant bear. They climbed to the top of the tower and the marks on Devil's Tower is from the claws of the giant bear.
Big Horn Mountain Range at the most magical part of the day
We then finally finished the day heading towards Montana and on the way we saw the majestic Big Horn Mountain Range.