[Geysers] Pathetic Little Hole

[barger]

Thanks for the clarification Karen.  I was headed toward Castle on the bike path and Doug was in the lower parking lot.  I started to call Plume at 1441(which had last erupted at 1330), but then I realized the burst was taking too long and seemed to be slightly misplaced.  The eruption lasted at least a minute, built to the size of a healthy Plume eruption, and maintained that height until it suddenly quit.  The water appeared to be a muddy yellow.  Doug thought Anemone had had a huge eruption, but I remembered hearing something about a hole on the other side of the boardwalk from Plume and West of Anemone, but I couldn't remember the name (if it had one).  I managed to stop my bike and after puzzling a moment, I decided to take a photo, but just as I got ready to snap the picture the geyser quit.  Kitt Barger
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Karen Low 
  To: geysers at wwc.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:27 AM
  Subject: [Geysers] Pathetic Little Hole


  David asked me to forward this message to the listserv, since he still hasn't joined.

  "Pathetic Little Hole Erupts!"

       All year long the little spouter just down slope from the Anemones
  has enjoyed slightly higher water levels than usual.  There was usually 
  a
  standing water level visible at the bottom of the crater.  In early 
  August
  the water levels rose even more.  Karen Low observed that the crater
  was about half full and spounting as high as a foot or two on Oct 8.
  Additionally she noticed that a distinct runoff channel left the crater
  and ran about 10-12 feet before disappearing in the gravel.  It 
  appeared
  as though there had been a small eruption of some kind.  This condition
  persisted through at least Oct 19.
       On Oct 23 both Kit Barger and Doug Holstein saw a geyser erupt
  on Geyser Hill which they could not identify.  It was 20-25 feet tall 
  but
  seemed to last too long to be Plume (about 40 seconds).  From Doug's
  vantage it looked as though it were coming from Big Anemone.  When
  I checked today (Oct 24) there was was all around "Pathetic Little
  Hole" and a runoff channel going all the way to the river.  It had also
  torn apart the crater rim and was full to within inches of overflow 
  with
  milky water.  Minor eruptions were frequent and sometimes as much as
  four feet tall.  It was not clear whether the minor eruptions were
  progressing towards another 25 footer, but there was definitely alot
  of energy present.  The larger minors briefly put a nice flow down the
  newly carved channel.  This feature will bear watching.

  David Goldberg



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