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pazgirls4 — Mon, 1 Sep 2008 19:25:53 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:18:32 MDT

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Here's me... I am looking EXHAUSTED!

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:18:26 MDT

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Emeri trying to get her headband back from Delaney... Delaney was having none of it.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:18:16 MDT

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Uncle Trent trying to pry Erica off.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:18:08 MDT

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The Grand Tetons...well not really, but the lower part of them.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:18:02 MDT

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Erica...what is that? That is a "Flat Foot" No wait... a "Flat Toe" (Plateau). LOL

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:56 MDT

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Wyoming.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:49 MDT

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Pardon the blur, I had this on night time, and I couldn't stay still enough to not make it blurry. This is Mt. Rushmore lit up at night. They have changed alot of it, and I didn't like it as well, but still very much worth the time and effort.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:45 MDT

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Crazy Horse Monument.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:38 MDT

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Going through a rock tunnel, frames Mt. Rushmore in the back ground.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:33 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:26 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:17:19 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:16:54 MDT

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And my bonus...picture of my refinished hardwood floors in my dining room. I LOVE Them. So much lighter than before!

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:07:32 MDT

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Hot springs running down into a river.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:07:24 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:07:16 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:07:08 MDT

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Emeri at Old Faithful

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:07:00 MDT

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Old Faithful before she erupts.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:53 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:45 MDT

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Elise waving at the web cam. We watched the webcam before we left on the internet, and so Elise turned and looked at it and waved so that people at home could see her.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:37 MDT

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There she blows!! Old Faithful.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:31 MDT

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Way up there!

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:24 MDT

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Catching a snowflake on your tongue was an activity in the Jr. Ranger program. Whoda thunk we could have completed that task in JUNE???

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:16 MDT

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Jr. Ranger program teaching the kids about how hot springs/gysers work. Erin is a hot rock under the Earth.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:06:04 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:53 MDT

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Elise in the royal blue coat, is the water.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:34 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:25 MDT

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Firehole river waterfall.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:15 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:05:07 MDT

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We passed the continental divide a couple of times.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:57 MDT

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Yellowstone Lake.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:51 MDT

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See the mountains back there.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:45 MDT

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THat white thing on the water is a pelican.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:35 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:26 MDT

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A boiling mud pot.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:18 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:11 MDT

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Dragons Mouth...noisy but very cool.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:04:01 MDT

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Rocks under the spillway from Dragons Mouth. I just thought it was pretty. I think I might try to enlarge and print it.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:53 MDT

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Closer Dragons Mouth.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:47 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:42 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:36 MDT

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Small waterfall running into the Dragons mouth.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:28 MDT

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Another Mud pot.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:23 MDT

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Sulfer Cauldron... STINKY!

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:17 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:11 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:03:04 MDT

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And then the snow came.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:02:57 MDT

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And it kept coming.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:02:49 MDT

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The Yellowstone river...and we decided to go home.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:02:42 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:02:31 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:41 MDT

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Sorry for the blur..but looking at the mountains in the background.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:35 MDT

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Chief Joseph's Scenic byway. Looking at the bear tooth mountains. We couldn't go over the beartooths as there was an avalanche 2 days before we were to drive through. So we had to drive around.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:29 MDT

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More beartooths.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:21 MDT

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Picture to show the layers of rock and the color. It was amazing.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:14 MDT

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Layers of sediment, and the black part is coal.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:30:06 MDT

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This was great to teach the girls about the layers of dirt and how erosion changes the look of things over the years.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:59 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:54 MDT

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Yeah, we are finally here!

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:45 MDT

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Another cheer just for kicks.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:35 MDT

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Our first sighting of a buffalo.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:26 MDT

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This is a redwood tree like are found in California and is a petrified tree. They believe it dates back to 640,000 years ago when the volcano that yellowstone sits on erupted, and the ash from that eruption petrified this tree. There were 3 of them, but the other two were destroyed by souvenier takers before this one was fenced off.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:18 MDT

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Another herd of buffalo and their babies resting in the afternoon sun.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:29:09 MDT

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This was taken at Mammoth hot springs. I remember when I was little (10ish) visiting the park and this particular hot spring was bubbling and very colorful. It has since dried up and is now dirt and ash.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:57 MDT

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Another spring that I remember being active when I was little, and full of vibrant color, and now is dried up.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:45 MDT

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The top of the previous picture. I think it was known as cascade falls, but as the terraces built up and deposits changed the flow of the spring, this is no longer an active part of the Mammoth Hot Springs.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:38 MDT

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Here we are on top of that previous picture, and you can see a small area in the middle of this picture that is a spring, but it is small, and not producing much water.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:29 MDT

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Another picture of the top of cascade falls.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:21 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:14 MDT

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This is a spring that is further away. The colors are bacteria and algea that live in the extremely hot water.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:05 MDT

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Closer up. The bright blue water is the hottest water, and gets it's color from a prehistoric algae that is blue in color. The brown is another form of algae.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:55 MDT

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More Mammoth Hot springs.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:47 MDT

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:40 MDT

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The mountains in the distance.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:34 MDT

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The backside of cascade falls.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:27 MDT

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A newly forming spring/falls. The terraces are very small, and although this picture doesnt' look like it, it is a falls, running down hill.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:18 MDT

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A closeup of the algae and bacteria in the above falls. I am not sure what the white stuff was, but it was really pretty.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:27:08 MDT

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Upper terrace Hot Springs.

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A recently dried up spring where some of the algae is still coloring the travertine deposits (white)

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A large spring on the upper terrace of Mammoth Hotsprings. It was here that Emeri saw a Man stick his hand in the water. Having been well prepped on how hot the water was, and how much damage putting your hand in the water can do to the development of the spring, she promptly told the man. "You are NOT to be putting your hand in there". Fortunately the guy laughed. But I was very proud of her for telling him :)

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:26:38 MDT

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That large spring we just saw...drains down into this.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:26:30 MDT

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Side view.

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The girls here.... Although it stunk like rotten Eggs (the sulfer) they loved it!

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More of the terraces formed by the deposits.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:25:54 MDT

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Some wild Flowers.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:25:36 MDT

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Other side of the terrace. Look at the pretty blue.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:25:29 MDT

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Bright blue hot spring. This is also on the upper portion of the hot springs. I do not remember there being much up there back when I was 10.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:25:21 MDT

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A large spring. It is sprouting water through cracks in the walls.

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Other side. Kind of looks like an elephant don't you think?

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Side of a cliff by the next waterfall.

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pazgirls4 — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:24:48 MDT

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Beautiful waterfall.

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