Two, two, two days in one

October 8, 2010                Snow Lodge, Yellowstone Park
I write from the Snow Lodge, next door to Old Fathful Inn in Yellowstone.  They are adjacent to each other, but I am here because, Old Faithful Inn has no WiFi.  This is a more modern new hotel, but built in the same tradition as the Old Faithful Inn, but lacks some important things.  Old Faithfull is approximately 200 yards from the geyser and can be seen from balcony's at the hotel or the short 100 yard walk.  I have seen it from both locations. 
Without Wifi yesterday, and getting in late I was unable to blog, so I will start with yesterday.
October 7th started out around 8:00 a.m. with a visit to the Buffalo Bill Historical Museum.  I spent over two hours purusing a magnificent display of all things western, from a Whitney art Exhibit including Wyeth's, Russels, Remingtons, etc, bronzes and pictures, to an incredible Buffalo Bill collection, to the Winchester gun collection wing and a plains Indian exhibit.  It was easily as good as a Smithsonian exhibit and many handsome guns were donated by great Americans, such as Dick Cheney.  There was also an additional Indian exhibit and a natural history wing.  I made some great purchases at the bookstore, and in light of my trip to Medicine Bow, bought a reprint of the original Virginian as copied from a copy given to
Buffalo Bill.  I was shocked to learn today that it is a work of fiction.
  After viewing the museum I hit some local gallery's and fly fishing stores.  I garnered some local intel on the fishing scene, geared up and stopped at the local eatery, Silver Dollar, and was provided with an excellent burger and the owner sat down and spent an hour with me gabbing about the local life.
After lunch I hit the river in town, no luck and moved on toward Yellowstone, stopping on the a section of the Shoshone above the Buffalo Bill resevior, and fished, no luck again.  I drove on in to Yellowstone, stopping for a fishing license.
I arrived rather late in the day at Old Faithful and got one of the two last rooms available at the Inn or this Lodge.  I booked it for two nights and made a dinner reservation at the restaurant, walked back to the car to get my bags and bang, off went old faithful.
Here is the Inn, from the outside, some interior shots and the geyser.  I suggest that you google the Inn to get a good view.
    
But first good ol Buffalo Bill.



I am having great difficulty downloading pictures here.  It is taking almost 7 minutes per picture, so I will just toss in the Elk and Bison for now and try and do a major dump when I get somewhere they have a faster server, or something.

Today I spent on the rivers of the park.  I fished the Little Firehole, the Firehole, Nez Perce Creek and the Gibbon.  Tomorrow I fish the Lamar and a lake I was told about and at the end of the day I will scoot on out of here and hopefully make Missoula, or Bozeman.

When I arrived here yesterday afternoon I was greeted with  very cool weather.  Today, it did not get above 45 and tomorrow it may rain and snow.  Oh well.  A good day fishing in the snow is hard to beat.  I caught quite a few native cuthroat trout today but was unable to hook about a 100.  They were all small but fun to catch.  I fished on one creek about 15 yards away from a Bison, just sitting there and tomorrow I head to the section of the park known for the bears, wolves and sheep.  Hopefully I will see some.  I leave you with one more picture and then it is to bed.

 

Mystic Falls on the Little Firehole (I walked up the river 1 mile fishing as I go!  Fun and cold 40 degrees.