Friday, 3rd of June 2011 at 11:14:59 PM

GSENM 2011 day 15: White Doms trail

Today was my last full day in USA. I was little bit sad, cause I had began to like the sweet life: travelling around and doing whatever I liked, going wherever I liked and no Work …. I had also get used to my Rental car which I had driven now for over 2800 miles. But being honest, I had completed my list of must do things to enjoy the american way of life: Starbucks drive-through and breakfast in the car; long road trips with Drive-thru lunch in the car. Breakfasting Pancakes with maples Syrup (Williams, Az) , having great Burgers (Page Dam Bar &Grill), Having a fantastic Steak diner (Rubys Inn @Bryce), having a Diner Buffet in Las Vegas (Wynn Buffet) and doing all my backcountry hikes and photography. On my last day I once again got up early in the morning to visit the third and last time Valley of Fire S.P. 50 miles north of Las Vegas. Here I did the White Domes trail a very small hike but offering also a small slot canyon and a historic filmset. I visited also the Elephant Rock at the east entrance and Piano Rock at the Loop road. Returning noon in Las Vegas I did some Shopping in the Premium Outlet Mall North and went a last time to the pool in the afternoon. In the evening I had the Wynn Diner Buffet and finally went to my Hotel for the traditional last evening gambling. (Lost 40 USD).

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Wednesday, 14th of September 2011 at 11:46:43 PM

my Utah 2011 foto trip fotos are now online

It took me more than 3 month to sort and filter my 2500 fotos, which I shot during my two week (may/june 2011) foto trip in Utah’s Grandstaircase Escalante N.M. I created a selection of my 50 favourite fotos. Enjoy and dont hesitate to give me feedback. The foto album will open up when clicking on this foto below.

Only somebody fotographing himself can understand what it means to go again and again through 2500 fotos (image size of 10-20MB) and filtering out the best shots. Every single foto is linked with a recall of the specific situation when shoting the foto. Often a technical not valuable foto still bears some memories of a nice trip incident and one is unwilling to reject it. So its is really a pain going again and again thorugh the fotos and reducing the count to a reasonable amount suited to be presented online. Therefore I have a second collection mainly for myself where i have stored all trip locations in a collection of 7 albums with 350 shots. Either from 2500 to 350 or 50, it was really hard work to scan all that material and what i learned for the next time: Dont shoot too many fotos!

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Friday, 1st of June 2012 at 03:41:30 PM

Yellowstone 2012 day 0: Munich-Philadelphia-Chicago-Salt Lake City-Malad, Idaho

US Airways had changed my 1 Stop Flight  into a 2  Stop Flight leaving me no choice. It was a long day and I hopped through four US  states. Especially annoying waiting 1h on the airfield of the Philadelphia airport, in a queue of 20 planes, due to changed wheather conditions. I risked to loose my connection in Chicago. I had 30 minutes to change planes and it worked out. In Salt Lake City another disappointment, insteaf of my desired Jeep Grand Cherookee I got only a Chevrolet Equinox. Finally I drove another 100 miles to Malad, Idaho where I picked a cheap Motel at 2am in the night. The highlight was the movie I watched on the Intercontinental flight: “Ides of march” with Ryan Goosling and George Clooney.

Here a fot of my Rental car:


I will be only 4 days in Yellowstone N.P. Afterwards will go back to the red rocks, deserts, canyons, gulches, … But i will name this travel-log Yellowstone 2012

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Sunday, 3rd of June 2012 at 07:52:16 AM

Yellowstone 2012 day 1+2: Norris Basin, Mammoth Hot Springs and Old Faithful Geysirs

After the night in Malad, Idaho I arrived at 10.30 in the morning in West Yellowstone. Unfortunately weather was rainy and cloudy. I left my luggage at the Hotel but it was too early for Checkin, so I reserved a quite room and decided to drive into the Park, despite the bad weather. I visited the Norris Geysir Basin and the Mammoth Hot Springs area, but due to the cloudy and rainy weather fotografing was not really fun. I retourned at 8pm in West Yellowstone for checkin and buying some food. Went to bed early. Here a foto from the first day.

I regretted not to be like always in Nevada where wheater was more relaible.

But the second day repaid. Summer arrived and sunny weather provided excellent conditions to enjoy the park and fotograph. I will only provide one foto of the Grand Prismatic Spring in the Midlevel Geysir Basin. It was necesarry to climb a small hill to do this foto:


day1: Norris Geysir Basin-Mammoth Hot Springs – North Entrance – Old Faithful
day2: Old Faithful area – Grand Prismatic Spring . Firehole Canyon Drive

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Tuesday, 5th of June 2012 at 08:48:31 AM

Yellowstone 2012 day 3: driving the complete figure “8”

Today I visited the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone. First the South Rim Road with it’s Upper Fall at Tom’s Lookout and then the Artists Point with the amazing view of the canyon and the lower fall.


I spent some time at artists point to catch the rainbow which is known to be visible at the Lower Fall around 9am. Afterwards I drove and visited all viewpoints of the North Rim road. Lookout Point is the one I liked most. Then I drove back to Old Faithful area to revisit Grand Prismatic Spring and then the Morning Glory Pool. On the way to Morning Glory Pool I was lucky to see the Laakeview Geysir erupt. Afterwards I went to Yellowstone Lake to visit Fisher Bridge, the Les Hardes Rapids with the jumping trouts and hereafter the Mud Volcano area (I did not like that). Finally I decided to do some wildlife watching and drive again the Dunraven Pass and close the loop through Tower Junction towards Mamoth Hotsprings and then back to West Yellowstone.

Todays drive visualized through my GPS log:

 

 

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