This is one splish-splash where you should not take a bath. The gurgling cauldron of mineralized water sloshes to the surface from high-pressure underground chambers at temperatures that occasionally exceed the boiling point, which at this elevation is about 15 degree slower than at sea level—still more than enough to render awful burns. Instead it’s best simply to appreciate the primeval beauty of a scene likely similar to many more in Earth’s earliest eons, and the colorful compounds that the cooling water paints across a four-dimensional stone canvas.
Yellowstone National Park WY (20 Sep 13) Looking WSW
44.5511, -110.8061Blistering Splash
This is one splish-splash where you should not take a bath. The gurgling cauldron of mineralized water sloshes to the surface from high-pressure underground chambers at temperatures that occasionally exceed the boiling point, which at this elevation is about 15 degree slower than at sea level—still more than enough to render awful burns. Instead it’s best simply to appreciate the primeval beauty of a scene likely similar to many more in Earth’s earliest eons, and the colorful compounds that the cooling water paints across a four-dimensional stone canvas.
Yellowstone National Park WY (20 Sep 13) Looking WSW
44.5511, -110.8061