[Geysers] Bechler map names

[jacross]

>Do capitalized "names" on a map like this constitute real names, or are they
>taken as being merely descriptive?

I hope not to find anyone today calling a feature "Old Geyser" or "Large Hot 
Spring."  These names are undescriptive, unimaginative, and unappealing.  By 
contrast, "The Tank" is memorable, descriptive, and shows a little ingenuity.  
I hope that naming conventions can allow enough flexibility to generate 
interesting, memorable, and appropriate names.  I am uncomfortable allowing 
dull names into the nomenclature simply because they were put on a map in 
capital letters.  I am glad it was Giantess Geyser I saw erupting, not Crystal 
Cauldron, Circe's Boudoir, or Arachne's Pewter Gravy Boat.

Jeff Cross
jacross at lamar.colostate.edu

>Old Geyser and Large Hot Spring. Large Hot Spring clearly is Old Bath Lake
>(=Tank Spring = The Tank = Ranger Pool). Old Geyser would be one of those
>spring  on the slope beyond The Tank (the name that I, ahem, personally
>prefer).