Soda Butte Basking Lizard
by Angelo Marcialis
Title
Soda Butte Basking Lizard
Artist
Angelo Marcialis
Medium
Photograph - Photography~ Dslr Photography
Description
September 20th found my friend and I out and about in the spacious Lamar Valley. This extinct geyser was not on the itinerary, but when we came across it in our travels, we sure as heck made sure to stop, read about it, and then photographed it!
Can you spot the lizard basking in the sunlight on the extinct geyser?
The Soda Butte Cone is located in the Northeastern Area of Yellowstone National Park, and is a striking hot spring cone about two and a half miles above the mouth of Soda Butte Creek; it is the feature that suggested this place name. The name was given by A. Bart Henderson, a Cooke City miner in 1870, who had descended Cache Creek to the Lamar River with a prospecting party when he made this entry in his diary:
"Camped on East Fork, south side. Just opposite camp a small creek empties into river. One mile up this creek is a very singular butte, some 40 feet high, which has been formed by soda water. We gave the cone the name of Soda Butte, & the creek the name of Soda Butte Creek."
Soda Butte Creek is an approximately 20 miles (32 km) long major tributary of the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park. It is named for a now-extinct geyser (Soda Butte) near its mouth.
It rises just outside the northeast corner of the park on the southern slopes of the Absaroka Range near Cooke City, Montana. The Northeast East Entrance road parallels Soda Butte Creek for its entire length within the park. Soda Butte Creek is a popular angling destination for native Yellowstone cutthroat trout.
Uploaded
March 25th, 2019
Statistics
Viewed 175 Times - Last Visitor from Beverly Hills, CA on 04/05/2024 at 11:26 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet