Walking (hike) 3:25:00 [2] 9.0 mi (22:47 / mi)
shoes: Montrail Boots
Dropped Mom, L, and B off at Old Faithful Geyser Basin trail head so they could walk the 2.5 miles back to the cabin and hopefully check off another couple of geysers on B's list.
William and I headed off to the Fairy Falls Trailhead for what we initially planned as a 5 mile hike up to the tallest waterfall in the park.
Fairy Falls was quite beautiful but the trail wasn't especially inspiring; An old maintenance road that had been covered with sand. Thru the '88 burn area, so no trees taller than 10 feet made the walking very warm.
Detoured up a steep hill to get a panoramic view of Prismatic Hot Spring in the Black Sands Geyser Basin. Well worth the effort. Prismatic is, I think, the largest hot spring in the world - or something like that.
Anyway, once we got to the falls we decided not to return via the same route.
Another .6 mile detour took us to a very cool back country geyser called Imperial. A large crystal blue spring with a continuously erupting geyser in the middle. Not super-huge but still impressive.
Our return loop took us on a 3 mile trek winding through a rather desolate but pretty meadow liberally sprinkled with steam vents, mud pots, and springs.