[Geysers] Geyser Eruption at West Thumb, (03/01/2008)

[Janet White]

Well, darn.  The insomnia didn't time well.  Maybe it'll help in the long
run, though.  Thanks for all your work on tracking this down what you can on
this - fun to hear the field reports! :)
 
Janet White

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From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu
[mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Low
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 9:35 PM
To: geyser
Subject: Fwd: RE: [Geysers] Geyser Eruption at West Thumb, (03/01/2008)


It may be just barely too late to show the pic around to other drivers to
see if it is what they saw on March 1st.  Tomorrow morning, ~530, we start
hauling employees out of Faithful and back to civilization.  Most of the
drivers are leaving the park tomorrow, and I don't have email addresses for
them, and I'll be at Faithful for another couple of days.
 
I got a text from Jason Tibbetts (Xanterra snowmobile guide); it sounds like
he saw Giant this afternoon.  I didn't get any details from him, so
hopefully he'll post them himself.
 
Karen Low

Janet White <janet at snowmoon.us> wrote:

From: Janet White <janet at snowmoon.us>
To: 'Geyser Observation Reports' <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
Subject: RE: [Geysers] Geyser Eruption at West Thumb, (03/01/2008)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:22:53 -0600


Hi Karen,
 
I knew I had a bunch of photos from that area I took last October - and
since I had insomnia last night, I dug them out and stitched them together
for "black pool area.jpg".  It's not a perfect job, but maybe this might
help???  I also found my photo of what I'm gathering is Skinny Geyser from
last July - where it looks like that crater near Black Pool might be empty.
Slightly different angle, though.  I can crop and zoom or send a higher res
version to folks interested.  They're pretty crunched down here for the
list.  Just email. :)
 
Janet White
janet at snowmoon.us

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From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu
[mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Low
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:35 PM
To: Geyser Observation Reports
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Geyser Eruption at West Thumb, (03/01/2008)


Ok, so here is the plan:  I have another south run tomorrow (Wednesday).  I
will take my camera with me, and take several pictures of the area behind
Black Pool.  I will show these pictures to my fellow snowcoach drivers, Will
Reid, Megan Hamilton, and Chris Dunkerson (who also saw part of the
eruption).  I will also try to show the pictures to James Evrard.  I'll mark
on the pics which vent it was they saw erupt, and post the marked pictures
to the list serve.
 
I've heard from Chris Dunkerson that the visitor who caught the eruption,
was going to take his camera over to the VC to download the pic, so that
they could post it to the geyser list serve.  (Chris was extremely surprised
when I told him that I only knew of one of the Visitor Center employees who
was on the geyser list serve.)  So, we'll see if that actually happens.
 
Karen Low
 
Karen Low <yellowstonekaren at yahoo.com> wrote:

Today, March 1st, 2008 around 3 pm, Xanterra snowcoach guides Will Reid and
Megan Hamilton saw an eruption of a geyser behind Black Pool.  
 
Will described it as lasting several minutes, and from 6 to 10 feet in
height.  Megan only caught the tail end of it.  Will mentioned it to me when
I was at Big Cone (he was touring his group around clockwise, I was touring
my group around counter-clockwise, and I'd stopped my group at Big Cone, to
let his by.)  He said it had already finished, but the crater was still
steaming.  When I got up to Black Pool, the crater that was still steaming,
was the one that was closer to Abyss Pool.  We looked in Geysers of
Yellowstone, but didn't see anything that fit it.  One of Will's guests got
a picture of it, he said when it was about 7 feet in height, that he agreed
to email to Denise Herman (the interp ranger at West Thumb).
 
I asked around when I got back to Old Faithful.  James Evrard said he saw
something last winter erupt behind Black Pool, but didn't know if it was the
same feature or not.  
 
If this feature does turn out to be unnamed, I propose it be named "Birthday
Geyser", since today is the 136th anniversary of signing of the bill by
President Ulysses S. Grant, that created Yellowstone as the world's first
national park.
 
Karen Low
 
 
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