10/06/15 Kyle Salz

10/6/15

                  Today was our second full day in Yellowstone we got a great opportunity to get to have a meeting with a park ranger. Ali was here name her job as a ranger was outdoor education, interpretation, and skype education. She had a very intensive knowledge about Yellowstone and the history behind the park. We got to go see the skype studio. Where park rangers will use skype or face to face communication over the internet. While we were there a ranger was doing a live skype with a class. Ali had one to do after we left with a group of fourth graders from North Carolina. The technology is letting students study from all over the country and learn about Yellowstone from that far away. At the same time the rangers are not just promoting Yellowstone but all National Parks in general and trying to get the students to go to their closes National Park as well. After, we got done Bobby did an interpretation on settlements in the West. We then proceeded on to Mammoth Visitor center which was totally redone in the spring. It was all new, modern, and nothing was over polluted in words in the whole center. It was off to see the

, springs, and pools for the day. We stopped at a few places along the way to see Old Faithful. The place near Mammoth had different terraces of activity it was very different from everything else we have seen so far. We arrived at Old Faithful around 3:30pm and saw that she was not going to go off again till around 4:42 pm. So, we had some time to explore other geysers around Old Faithful. Caleb, Josh, and I got lucky and got to see the Lion and the Castle ones to go off while we were walking on the board walk. Returning from our stroll around we had a few minutes to go into the Old Faithful Inn and get some ice cream. From there we went and sat on the porch on the second floor of the Inn. Where we viewed Old Faithful go off. It was very cool to see and how to think that this happens just about every hour, every day of the year is remarkable. Oh, I forgot that we all got to view a lot of elk this morning while visiting with Ali and on the drive.