[Geysers] Pocket Basin

[Will Moats]

Hello All,

Returned home from YNP this last Sunday (sigh...).

My son and I went to Pocket Basin on 7/27/05.  We saw Pocket Basin Geyser erupt at 10:33, 11:34, and 13:28, for intervals of 1-2 hours.  It would erupt about 3 minutes after reaching overflow.

We also noted that Brain Geyser is dormant.  Fortunately, Fortress Geyser was having some occasional large bursts 8-10 ft high.

We also video-taped a small geyser situated between two hot spring pools just above and east of Fortress Geyser.  Based on 3 eruptions observed, this small geyser would erupt about 2 ft high for approximately 4 minutes at intervals of about 12 minutes.

>From the east side of the river, we could see that Mound Geyser is active, looking much the same as in the past.

-- Will Moats




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TSBryan at aol.com 
  To: geysers at wwc.edu 
  Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 8:48 PM
  Subject: [Geysers] Geyser report July 29



  This morning I went into Pocket Basin/River Group. Managed to see Pocket Geyser erupt (as did Butch Bach's "Mud Pot Special" hike). Four or more geysers are active in the upper spring area east of Fortress Geyser. Unfortunately, Dark Pool  Blurble and BRain are NOT active -- that stretch near the reiver was the least active I've ever seen it. Active elsewhere in the area are my RVG-1 (1 to 2 feet, seen from across the river) and RVG-4 (little more than bubbling overflow but quite frequent I think). The mud pots, interestingly, are either dry or rather fluid. The vertically gifted cyclic mudpot was doing very little and, judging by the walls of its crater, it has not had significant action in quite a while. The best mud pot in the area was --- well, really, there wasn't one that was particularly exciting at all.

  Scott Bryan
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