[Geysers] Upper Geyser Basin, 12/26/2008

[srlb at eskimo.com]

OOPS! Sorry to have cluttered up the listserv with that. It was generated
by an archiving program I wrote some time back to retain copies of all
posts to this group. Yesterday, after I'd added an external harddrive to
the system, that (and a couple other pieces of my software) went nuts. I'm
working on a fix. (Isn't that what all software writers say)?...   :-)

Bob Berger
srlb at eskimo.com

> (Saved w/o pic)
> "Karen Low" <yellowstonekaren at yahoo.com>
>
>> I saw Uncertain Geyser ie at 1237, which was cool.  I can't remember how
>> long it has been since I'd seen Uncertain in winter.
>>  
>> Old Tardy was active.  I saw it 1239 ie, and again at 1302.
>>  
>> Penta had erupted since the big storm yesterday.
>>  
>> I watched a couple of Turban eruptions, but the water in Grand was
>> pretty
>> low, so I didn't stick around.
>>  
>> On my way towards the hill, I paused and looked back and caught Castle
>> 1309 ie.  I waited near North Goggle to see it switch into steam phase
>> at
>> 1325.  Meanwhile, I saw Little Cub at 1319.
>>  
>> There were two bison near the boardwalk, up where the trail splits off
>> to
>> go to Solitary Geyser, so I didn't check on Aurum.
>>  
>> There are a couple of small things on the hill that I saw erupting, that
>> I
>> can't recall seeing before.  About 5 feet north of the boardwalk,
>> between
>> the Dwarf group and Marmot Cave, there is a slit 1" x 4" which had water
>> erupting about ten inches.  Also, about 20' west of Plume there are two
>> vents that I've seen erupt to about 8".
>>  
>> Beehive wasn't splashing, so probably won't erupt in daylight today.
>>  
>> I saw Daisy at 1332ie as a cloud from a distance.
>>  
>> Oh, news about the construction of the new Visitor Education Center. 
>> There is propane leaking from where the tanks for the heating of the
>> VEC are buried behind the post office.   I know there were also issues
>> this fall, with the line that they dug a trench for across the parking
>> lot. 
>>  
>> Karen Low
>> (Windchill really limits how much time I'm willing to spend outside!)
>>
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