El planeta puede ser un lienzo. Un trozo de tierra en la que se desparraman texturas y colores. Una tela de barro y piedra con olor a azufre, a pino, a agua enloquecida. Un sin sentido de humo, estelas verdes y vientos fríos. Las rocas se recuestan sin pasos en su lomo y en las laderas que partieron en dos a golpes de corriente se agolpan las bestias indecisas. El planeta puede ser un lienzo, sometimes, only sometimes…
Yellowstone was a goal since a few years ago, In this same magazine, I stumbled upon an exhibition of Marina Pizarro's photos entitled "Ice and Fire". We take a plane in San Francisco, We landed in Salt Lake City at 23:30 hours and an hour later we slept in a motel 6, which is the largest motels in the US.
We get up early, We take the car, We have breakfast in a village on the route in one of those coffee shops where the waitress has a waitress dress like in the movies, The dark water cups that they call coffee are filled six times as in the movies, Next to you devour a dish of six scrambled eggs some types with a truckers pint as in the movies and the sheriff enters at a time as in the movies that greets the waitress as in the movies.
The sheriff enters at a time as in the films that greets the waitress as in the movies
From there to Yellowstone are 585 kilometers in which you cross the void Idaho and also the emptiness wyoming until you reach the park. There, At the west information door you receive nice Rangers, Something already older, that give you all kinds of indications of what to see and what to do. Before just from the entrance to the Information Center, they announce to Bombo and Shaw. The doors are open 24 hours. It is tourists.
Yellowstone is as beautiful and special as Marina Pizarro's photos described it. The park smells like sulfur in some sections, to pine in others and to clean water sliding between the rocks in the rest. We had reserved a first night at Old Faithful Inn (Faithful old). It is there where each 35 Minutes explodes the largest and most famous geiser in the park and that is where in our opinion is the most charming accommodation. Made all wood, Our room despite not having its own bath pretended to be a cabin of the old pioneers.
The park can be traveled in Redondo, eg, In the sense of the clock hands. From Old Faithful to Mammoth Hot Springs are most of the Geiser and more beautiful sulphuric water lakes. The great prismatic spring looks like a one -colored pool, As if someone had stamped a rainbow on the ground. The temptation is to bathe in that crystalline colored water where last November a tourist died when he fell to one of those numerous sources of boiling acid that they follow in the park for wanting to check the water temperature. They found only one piece of clothes, The rest had dissolved. I think in the history of the park some 20 people have died evaporated in sulphuric water pools.
In the history of the park some 20 people have died evaporated in sulphuric water pools
En Mammoth Hot Springs, to the north and with a beautiful camp also, You can contemplate the calcareous formations that water has made in the mountain. The succession of whitish terraces is clear on the slopes and is formed.
In the middle of the road between the two camps mentioned there are many routes, stops next to the river and long paths between pine trees that are made on foot. That is part of the most advisable: walk the park.
Then, Already to the east, One can go to meet the great packs of bison. They are found in Planicie areas, Silver Gate Road. The buffalo or American bison has some myth for its foreign body that crowns a large hair covered with hair. There are hundreds, miles, eating their herds in total calm now that protect them after the massacre they suffered in the times of the conquest of the distant west. It is estimated that there were between 60 and 100 millions of copies before the arrival of the Europeans of those who have already been close to 350.000.
It is estimated that there were between 60 and 100 millions of copies before the arrival of the Europeans of those who have already been close to 350.000
To the south, In that circle that we did on two nights in the park, one goes to the lake. That is the bears area, of some beautiful points of water waterfalls such as the artist point that culminates in the lodge in which we stay, El Grant Village. My recommendation is not sleeping there: expensive and the place with less charming.
The significant thing was to see there an oriental food restaurant. I say significant because the park is literally invaded by Chinese tourists. In August they were hordes getting out of buses in groups, by tens, and occupying everything as a termiter in which there is no place for the landscape in the meantime selfie. That night we sleep in front of the lake's stop waters.
Then the return was and there we took another route to move different from that of the first leg to cross the Grand Teton National Park and the deep wyoming. Without a doubt you have to choose that path. The mythical pointed and snowy peaks of the park happen to your right, shadowing a lake that overshadowed surrounded by a green plain. It is the area of ??the old native population of the United States where Shoshone saw how the white man expelled them gradually from their lands.
It is the area of ??the old native population of the United States where Shoshone saw how the white man expelled them gradually from their lands
One goes through villages like Jackson who seem taken from a John Wayne film. The whole route, Once left the Grand Teton Park, It is a succession of small and cold villages. A tractor loneliness and gas station that from the car looks like a vital peel.
But suddenly, without knowing it, We begin to cross the Bear Lake. It is an elongated Green and Blue Waters swamp, Like Caribbean. A holiday area of ??deep America in which the ads of country music festivals occurred, Food festivals or food festivals listening to country music. We would have stopped there, In the midst of that rural America that votes with enthusiasm to a racist and rude gordinflon to be its president. But we had to sleep in Salt Lake City and Bear Lake was in the slopes of another route.
In the capital of Utah, where we arrive at 16 hours, We were able to visit the Great Mormon Church. The construction and history of the great Mormon temple surprises with naive. The entire Salt Lake City downtown is dedicated to the cult of a nineteenth -century prophet, Joseph Smith, able to convince millions of people to be a chosen one who guided his people to the new promised land. There are statues of happy families everywhere and all kinds of guides in all types of languages ??willing to teach the light to the visitors of the Church of the Saints of the last days.
We end our route from 17 nights by California and Yellowstone having dinner in a lively and modern bar of the center and drinking drinks on a postmodern terrace and a contained party. Actually, Salt Lake City I liked a genuine. Again expectations at stake: De Salt Lake City did not expect anything that was not a faint pray. Good Bless America (In the times we live seems to need it).
