We started the day driving the Firehole Canyon getting great views of the several cascades.

Started today’s hikes at the Fairy Falls Trail, a 3.6 mile hike to the 197 foot falls. For me the best part of the hike was an elevated view of the Grand Prismatic Spring. If you have been following my adventures for a while you might remember me gushing about the view. It was an off trail bushwhacking to get up high enough to see over the trees and on to the spring. Not any more – the park service has added a side trail to get to my spot. The spring is still spectacular.

Continuing along the trail trough pine forest and over some small boulders to get to the falls.

After the hike back to our car we headed to Biscuit Basin for our final hike of the day — Mystic Falls. This so called easy hike was so if you just hiked to the falls and back. We decided to do the falls loop trail which is 4 miles — our first mistake was to take the right fork which rises 700 feet in a half mile with many switchbacks to an overlook of the firehole river and in the distance Upper Geyser Basin. The downhill return to the falls and trailhead was much easier.

Closing out the hike we followed the basin boardwalk through several geysers.