The day after tomorrow the 2007 Wildflowers Expedition to Fairyland will begin. What is Fairyland? It is a hot spring basin so remote that less people have been there than have stood on the summit of Mt. Everest. It is not shown on any map. I read about it on this site: http://home1.gte.net/res00j35/yellowstone/fairyland/day04.htm back in February or so and decided I had to go.
Our party name, 'Wildflowers' is from the Tom Petty song that has become our anthem of summer in Yellowstone. There are just four in our party, Andrew, Pilar, Stephen from Taiwan and me. We are all very excited. I am nervous. It is my first true backpacking trip. It will be at least 25 miles roundtrip. At least 10 of those miles will be off-trail 'bushwacking.' Our campsite 4B1 is one of the few off-trail backcountry sites in the Park. If you want to see where we're going, follow the trails from Artist's Point on the South Rim of the Canyon to 4M2, here jump trail to 4B1 and follow Broad Creek north to its confluence with Shallow Creek.
We will be gone the 10th - 13th of July.
With any luck the next posting will be complete with photos from FAIRYLAND!!!
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” -Helen Keller
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