RHH's photos with the keyword: firehole

These falls are on the Firehole River just south of Madison Junction and they drop about 40 feet. They are visible from a side road, the Firehole River Road, a very scenic drive. The photo is an old scanned slide from 1979.

There is a story that goes with this picture. We, my wife, my youngest daughter and I, were hiking on a very hot and windy day near the Biscuit Basin area in Yellowstone National Park. After hiking a ways we stopped to rest under this tree. We had taken off our shoes and put our feet in the stream, but I could hear the tree creaking in the wind and it just did not sound right. Finally I said, "I don't know about you, but I'm getting out of here. I'm afraid that tree is going to come down." After putting on our socks and shoes we continued hiking, but when we came back an hour later we saw that the tree was down right on the place where we had been sitting.

This has been for years one of the more regular and spectacular geysers in Yellowstone and is in the area of Old Faithful. The dead trees in these areas of thermal activity are killed by the steam and the chemicals, especially sulfur, with which the water is laden.

This picture was taken by my wife on a hike near the Old Faithful area of Yellowstone National Park.