[Geysers] Memorial Day Trip Report - Norris

[David Monteith]

Sorry for being late on this but I thought it was still worth posting.

A couple quick observations from our Memorial Day trip.  We spent a couple 
hours Sunday at Norris.  I didn't make it to the back basin but still saw 
some fun stuff.

The big news from Porcelain basin was Blue Geyser.  It was active and 
overflowing.  Bursts were variable but included some respectable 10-12 foot 
nicely domed eruptions.  They were spaced 10-20 minutes apart.  I haven't 
seen so much water in Porcelain basin since the mid to early 90s.  In the 
hour and a half I was there I saw 13 geysers (Blue, Constant and Arsenic are 
the only ones I can name.)  I also saw a twenty foot geyser in the general 
area of Graceful.  The nice but steamy eruption lasted 4-5 minutes.  Lastly, 
Guardian was active as a loud forceful steam vent that overpowered the volume 
of Black Growler.  Even though it had melted considerably, he remaining 
icecone above Guardian was still impressive.

Forgotten Fumarole was active.  Tara saw a number of eruptions.  Eruptions 
occurred about every few minutes (Tara's in Denver and I can't remember the 
intervals she got but I think they were in the 5-10 minute range.)  The 
height and strength was quite variable with eruptions of very black muddy 
water from a few feet to about 12 feet.

Dave