[Geysers] People on Minute Man

[Chase Ellison]

	I also feel the same way Dave does on this subject. I've heard many  
geyser gazers talking about "that time" or "back then" of people on  
cones/benches/platforms/whatever. If people want to continue down this  
path do we start mentioning names of fellow gazers we've witnessed on  
cones and so on? Granted posting people on cones is not the best idea  
for public relations but it does happen and sometimes is necessary as  
Dave has pointed out.
Chase Ellison
On Dec 5, 2007, at 4:02 PM, David Goldberg wrote:

>      All of the old time geyser gazers with pictures of themselves  
> off train, standing on various geysers need to hide the evidence  
> deeper in their attics because we're holding public executions now.   
> It's worth noting that the people pictured on Minute Man were actual  
> National Park Service employees and didn't even need a permit so  
> they didn't have any written restrictions on what they could do.  I  
> volunteered for the GIS project in 1998 (around the time I believe  
> the pictures were taken) providing names for the features they were  
> mapping.  I didn't always like there methods, but admittedly the  
> only instuctions they had were to GPS locate, photograph, and take a  
> water sample from every single hole in the ground.  Walking on a lot  
> of sinter was unavoidable.  After a while you just got used to it.   
> I agree that they shouldn't have been on Minute Man's cone.  However  
> the distinction between that cone and all the other sinter they had  
> to walk on to do their job is something you probably have to be a  
> geyser gazer to appreciate.  Incidentally, how do you think we  
> download Lion Geyser these days.  Every month someone has to walk  
> all over the Lion Group sinter mound.  The GIS data only had to be  
> taken once ever.  So can we please get down off our soap boxes and  
> quit moaning about questionable proceedures used nine years ago when  
> we do the same thing all the time now.  Thank goodness noone  
> photographs the geyser downloads.
>
> David Goldberg
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