Its my Saturday and me and my friends Chelsea and Wendy decided to get some lunch in West Yellowstone. On the way to the car, we saw some people we work with in the restaurant and the Bear Pit bar attached to the restaurant. They invited us to go on a float trip with them. We quickly changed our plans, got our swimming stuff and planned on floating after lunch in West Yellowstone. Wendy had to bail bc she had to work that night and we wouldn’t be back in time. Chelsea and I drove up to West and had lunch. The weather got pretty nasty looking, and our food took longer than expected, and Chelsea had some things to buy in town anyway, so we nixed the float trip, decided to run errands in town then go to the swimming hole in firehole canyon after. We were in the last store we needed to go to and Chelsea saw a kiddie pool that she wanted to surprise her roommate Wendy with, so she bought it and we carried all the way back across town to my car. Once we got the pool situated in the back, we drove back into the park to Firehole Canyon for a swim. There are rapids there you can jump in which are awesome, and there is a hot spring nearby so the water is super refreshing. You can jump in at the top of the rapids and let the water carry you downstream. Its pretty easy to navigate until you are holding an underwater digital camera in one hand. You do have to be careful though. The next day. Me, Greg, Garrett, and our friend Meghan from Arkansas went to firehole to swim again and someone who works in housekeeping at Old Faithful had apparently just drowned as we pulled up. They pulled her out of the water and were doing CPR. The story was that she was climbing on the rocks on the other side of the water, fell, hit her head on the way down and was unconscious in the water for 5 minutes or more. Its crowded, but she could have been overlooked in the water and its possibly that no one saw her fall. Needless to say we didn’t swim there that day. We talked to a doctor who helped her once she was first out of the water and he didn’t seem to have much hope. He said she had a faint pulse after 30 minutes of CPR. Rumors are swirling around Old Faithful, some saying she died, some that she snapped out of it and is recovering, who knows. I don’t know her, but she is not from the US. I cant imagine being the parents getting that call. Holy shit. You want to go to the US and work for the summer? Sure. Then this. When we go, we just swim and relax, we never go near the rocks or cliffs, the water just isn’t deep enough to do any of that. Anyway, we left there and went to Moose Falls for a relaxing swim, then went to Teton for a short hike and drive to Jenny Lake. It was a weird day.
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