[Geysers] Norris Stuff

[Mike and Cynthia Keller]

Some fun things happening at Norris the past few days.  The following info comes via Rocco Paperiello and David Goldberg (for 9/25 and 9/26 data mainly) plus a few observations of my own (from the road on 9/25 and in person on 9/27):

1-The large steaming crater downhill from Rediscovered Geyser (heading towards Minute) along the old road has been erupting!  This feature has not been active in a long, long time.  It was first seen on Saturday (9/25) erupting every few minutes to about 10 feet.  On Sunday (9/26) the eruptions were coming every 8-15 minutes and reaching 20-45 feet until around 1630, when the eruptions stopped and the crater completely drained.  Rocco said the geyser looked a lot like Echinus.  On 9/27 I spent over a hour at the geyser and saw 4 eruptions reaching about 3 feet at intervals of 11 to 22 minutes.  The water was the color of thick chocolate pudding.  Rocco spoke with an NPS employee who told him no eruptions were reported throughout the day.

2-Monarch Geyser is having periods of heavy overflow and is boiling up a few feet.  The play is very similar to that seen in the mid 1990's.

3-Rubble Geyser is active.  Rocco, Tara Cross, Matthew McLean, and I saw an eruption on 9/27 that lasted about 3 minutes and reached about 4 feet.  Rocco and Matthew just missed seeing it erupt about 2 hours before so the eruptions are coming fairly frequently.

4-Corporal Geyser had 2 closed intervals of 40 minutes on 9/27.

5-Porkchop was perpetually boiling to about 2 feet on 9/27.

6-Vixen Geyser was erupting to 10-15 feet every few minutes on 9/27.

7-I saw Medusa Spring erupting to about 4 feet while driving along the main highway on 9/25.  This is the first time I have seen it in eruption in many years.

8-Rocco saw Valentine and Guardian Geyser's in mixed water/steam phase on 9/26.

Mike Keller
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