Waterfalls are pretty...hard work

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This is the picturesque Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, which are 308ft high. We walked from the canyon rim down to the river and back 3 times yesterday, with a drop of 600ft each time for different views of the Upper and Lower Falls. Standing at the brink of the falls was awesome; 37,417 gallons of water falling per second. Shame we can't use any of the geothermal features for a hot tub after the days hiking though!
Karen
 
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Grumping in the rain...

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At the Orange Spring Mound in Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone. Luckily it hasn't rained since, so Nick is happier. However, this means that we are camping, which I am not enjoying so much - 8000ft with night temperatures in the mid-40s (not much above freezing) - I think the beard is insulating him as he doesn't seem to care!
Karen
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Last chance bears

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Whilst wandering in the Last Chance Gulch of Helena, Montana, Karen encountered this rather cute Bear About Town.
 
The gulch is named so because 4 miners struck it rich here on their "last chance" dig on the way home from a failed prospecting trip. The rest, as they say, is history - Last Chance Gulch is a historic pedestrian street and Helena is now the state capital.
 
Not always the case though, as on the way here, we detoured through Marysville. In its' heyday, it had 27 saloons and was "going to absorb Helena as a suburb"... Sadly the gold ran out, the railway left and now its a ghost town with a few families left.
 
Cheers
 
Nick
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Biggest is not always best...

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Karen at the mouth of the Roe River - the headwaters are about 200 feet behind her (just beyond the wedding couple on the bridge - about the 8th we've seen on our trip).
 
Apparently this was the shortest river in the world until recently when somewhere in Oregon clocked in at 199 feet and stole the crown. The river is fed by the Giant Springs of Great Falls, Montana which, true to it's name, pumps out 156 million gallons of water per day.
 
Off to find the falls now.
 
Cheers Nick
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