Fairyland Basin Trip
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GPS check on the trip in. We were traveling x-country at this point from the trail to our campsite at Joseph's Coat Springs. |
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Looking up Broad Creek toward Joseph's Coat Springs. |
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Campsite 4B1. Jake and Lonnie in foreground with Tim walking away in the back.. |
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Grizzly Bear tracks 200 yards downstream from our campsite at JCS. A sow and cub left a trail of tracks through a muddy area next to the creek. |
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Jake holds an Elk skull and antlers found close, but downstream, from our campsite. |
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The view looking down Broad Creek from our campsite, 4B1 toward JCS. |
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"Log Jam Thermal Area." Downstream from our campsite a half mile or so, this is where we left the creek for our x-country trek to Coffee Pot Springs. |
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Jake checks out the cave located along Broad Creek close to the "Log Jam Thermal Area" |
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Our first view from above of Fairyland basin. |
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Lower Section of Golden Fleece Falls located at the bottom of our decent into the canyon. It is upstream from Fairyland basin a 1/4 mile. |
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My first view of the main shield of cones as we came down Shallow Creek. Jake and I could hardly contain ourselves and hurried to see our goal as the others lingered at Golden Fleece Falls. |
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Coming ever closer to our goal, I started taking as many photos as I could. |
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Our group of 5 assembles for a photo: Brian, Tim, Lonnie, Jake, and myself. |
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Looking up Broad Creek from the Confluence. Cones leading up to the giant boulders in the creek. What a sight!!! |
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A photo looking down Shallow Creek toward the Confluence of Broad and Shallow Creeks. |
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These cones were on the opposite (east) side of Shallow Creek from the main shield. |
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Looking up Shallow Creek. |
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The Magic Mushroom. |
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A closer view of the Mushroom. |
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Still another view of this famous cone. |
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Notice cone just to the right of the big fat one in the middle. See how it has a cave in the bottom? The next photo shows what is inside. |
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It looks like a tube within the cone. This one had part of the outside which had deteriorated over the years. This allowed us to see inside one of the cones. |
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Many of the short cones that we could see into had holes in the top. |
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Looking down Broad Creek. |
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Still another view of the main group. |
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Jake coming down Shallow Creek toward the confluence. |
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Looking down Broad Creek. |
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I crossed Shallow Creek here to go downstream to check out the lone cone. |
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A lone cone down Broad Creek from the confluence. |
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A closer view of the lone cone. |
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I walked on down Broad Creek past the lone cone and took this shot back toward the confluence and the main group of cones. |
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Shallow Creek above the Confluence, looking downstream.. |
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Looking up Shallow Creek from the Confluence. |
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Looking down Broad Creek toward the confluence. |
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This hot spring was located down stream from the confluence of the creeks. It is so clear that there does not look like there is any water in the pool at all. |
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An interesting boiling hot spring. I think it was on Broad Creek. |
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This interesting little spouter was arching hot water directly into Shallow Creek. |
CLICK HERE for the trip report of our July 2001 trip to Fairyland. |
