[Geysers] Geyser Report 10/28/05 (Stephens)

[Tim Holmes (W8TAH)]

lynn stephens wrote:

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>18:09 10/28/05
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>After 5 travel days and 12 days in Hawaii, where I had a wonderfully relaxing time with my family, I arrived back in the Park shortly before noon today.
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>Coming in, the bald eagle was perched in a snag along the Firehole River about 3 miles into the Park.  I didn't see any swans at Seven Mile Bridge, but a small herd of cow elk with their calves was attracting a lot (if there ever is a lot at this time of the year) of visitor attention.  I looked, but didn't see any otters at 9 mile.
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>The weather report last night had predicted snow for Yellowstone.  As I was driving south from Bozeman, I was glad I didn't see snow at Big Sky, none at West Yellowstone, still none at Madison, none at the top of the Madison Hill; in fact, none at Old Faithful.  The sky was full of threatening dark gray clouds all afternoon, with only a few sun breaks.
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>Firehose and Clepsydra were both ie at 11:00.  Silex was full, not cloudy, and overflowing.
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>Great Fountain was not in overflow, and still wasn't in overflow at 17:35 this evening.  The last reported eruption was 17:01 on 10/26.  Because there are very few reports, Great Fountain has been taken off the prediction board in the VC.
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>Pink Cone road bubblers were not active and Pink Cone's bubbling sounded fairly far down in the tube.  The road bubblers still weren't active at 17:38.  The last reported eruption of Pink Cone was 9:22ie on 10/22.
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>There was a lone bull bison at Hot Lake and a lone bull elk at Whiskey Flats.
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>Flood was ie this evening as I was coming back from checking on Great Fountain, and Till was ie (a minor eruption) as I was going out to Great Fountain.
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>In the Upper Basin, I was greeted by Beehive's Indicator ie as I crossed the road at the Three Sisters junction.  Beehive erupted at 11:49.  Lead time by the Indicator was about 11-12 mintues.  Yesterday's Beehive was reported at 12:26 ns.  No rainbows, but it was a nice welcome back.
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>Plume is erupting at about 45-50 minute intervals.
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>Depression was ie at 12:25.  The VC called a Lion initial at 13:20 and Ralph Friz called the second eruption at 14:51.
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>Electronic time for Grand was 06:42, so I went out to Grand after taking my cat over to the trailer.  West Triplet was ie when I arrived at 12:53.  Turban erupted at 13:09:49, and Grand started at 13:10:14--the first Turban in the window.  Vent started at 13:12:34.  When Grand paused at 13:16:59, I thought I had looked at either the start or pause time wrong--but no, the times were right.  Since the first burst had lasted only 6 minutes 45 seconds, I was really hoping for at least a 3-burst eruption.  But instead, following a 20 second pause, the second burst continued for 3 minutes 57 seconds.  Oh well, two is better than one!
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>Daisy erupted during Grand, at 13:12, and again at 16:14, for a 3 hour 2 minute interval.
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>Rolling Riverside forward several intervals, the prediction was for 12:15.  However, it wasn't in overflow at 12:30 and didn't look like it had just finished erupting, so we took Riverside off the prediction board.  Overflow started 15:15 plus/minus 5 minutes, and Riverside erupted at 17:05.
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>Castle's electronic time this morning was 00:39.  I had it (probably near start) at 13:40 in water phase and the eruption continued into steam phase for a major.
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>Grotto was off at 12:30 and Bijou was nonfunctional.  The Marathon Pool was down about 12".  I didn't check Variable Spring until 13:30, and it was still down about 3-4".  Variable Spring did not finish refilling until about 15:30.  I left Giant at 17:00 and the recovery hot period still had not occurred.  (The signs on the platform were still in place.)  Ralph Friz said the recovery hot period two days ago lasted 17 mintues.
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>I saw a Pyramid initial from Giant's platform, and watched Oblong close up at 15:14.
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>That's all the geyser news I have.
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>The front of the roof on the Inn is completely reshingled, so no more blue is visible from Geyser Hill or the Basin.  The unweathered red-orange shingles do stand out though and are clearly visible from Giant's platform.
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>I intend to stay in the Park until closing and hope to file daily geyser reports.
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>Lynn Stephens
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>P.S.  Thanks to Graham Meech for pointing out that the computer read-out for Giantess was 22:13 MST, which would be 23:13 MDT.  I have made the change in the VC logbook.
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Lynn-- thank you so much for all the time and effort that you put into 
your geyser reports -- it provides a much needed yellowstone fix when im 
stuck in Ohio --

thanks again

TIM