[Geysers] regarding Grotto Fountain

[Kevin Leany]

Thankfully Grotto Fountain is not dormant.  I caught a beautiful eruption Saturday afternoon and was even treated to a Rocket major!  It was so nice to see it that I had to take back half the bad things I said about Fan & Mortar after the two night eruptions.

Kevin Leany
kleany at cox.net
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: TSBryan at aol.com 
  To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 8:36 AM
  Subject: [Geysers] regarding Grotto Fountain


  That Grotto Fountain Geyser might have fallen into a dormancy should perhaps be no surprise. (Actually, it was at one time known as "Surprise Geyser"!)

  As a double-check looking into Whittlesey and Marler, the first time that Grotto Fountain _might_ have been seen was 1875, when Strong noted three geysers in simultaneous eruption. No doubt one was Grotto but what the other two were/are is unknown -- Rocket (maybe), Grotto Fountain (maybe) and South Grotto Fountain (maybe); shoot, maybe even Spa.

  In 1886, Weed noted a hole "next" to Grotto's runoff as erupting to 30 feet. We suppose this was Grotto Fountain, but...?

  And then the next known observation wasn't until 1927, then 1928 (2 eruptions known), and 1931 (4 eruptions known).

  There were eruptions during the 1940s (Surprise Geyser; Strange Geyser; etc.), but apparently Grotto Fountain was not consistently active until much later -- I seem to vaguely recall in the back of my muddled mind that its eruptions were still rather uncommon in the early 1970s.

  NOW, bearing on this, what I don't recall reading is whether or not there is still action in South Grotto Fountain.

  Scott Bryan





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