Day 52 Grant Village to West Yellowstone 51 miles

June 29, 2013 by Dave & Gerry 8 Comments

What a fantastic day.After 6 miles we crossed the continental divide for the 6 th time and then after 12 miles we crossed it again for the 7 th time.The weather was very hot as we turned into the Old faithfull tourist area ,we saw Old Faithfull gush steam high into the air , this happens every 70 minutes,and this was watched by hundreds of tourists ,we also watched a movie giving the formation on how these geysers are formed.Further up the road we stopped at many other spectacular geysers,some large pools of clear blue boiling water,others had very colourfull edges and some were spewing hot yellow water into the Madison river .No photos can really reflect how magnificant these geysers are ,but i did try .At one of these stops several people came up to us to ask what we were doing, some even wanted to have a picture taken with us .Next we were heading for Madison junction when we spotted a Bison grazing close to the road,Gerry got pretty close but what a magnificant beast.At Madison junction we parted company with Frosty,he had been with us for 6 days he was heading North to Canada.He had been a wealth of knowledge on cycle touring,camping and any subject you could mention,he had given us 6 days of non stop information ,we had made him laugh. He ,and us were quite emotional when we said good by ,nice man.We rode the last 14 miles along the Madison river which was also going West , we crossed into Montana and our final destination of West Yellowstone,a fine town with a lots of shops and things to do.We are having a rest day tomorrow and plan to get all our clothes washed.

another crossing of the continental divide

old faithful lodge built in 1904

old faithfull gushing sream

a blue coloured pool of boiling water

bubbling geyser great colours round the edges

some of our new young fans

gerry getting up close to a bison