[Geysers] Geyser report May 16

[TSBryan at aol.com]

This is another short report. The trails are still closed (but the loop  
around OF is now open). I heard three things today: 1) the trails will be closed  
for 24 hours; 2) they'll check the area after 48 hours or so; 3) somebody  
probably will go out to look this afternoon.
 
Anyhow, after spending a couple of hours in the UGB, I went over to West  
Thumb, then back for another hour or so, then home via a recently-erupted  
Fountain. Again, a number of the following times are from Graham Meech.
 
Plume 0644, 0757 (73), and 0902 (65).
 
Beehive's Indicator 1225, Beehive 1237. (Yesterday, by the way, Beehive was  
1436.)
 
Lion 0644ie, 0749, and 0851; it was still having roars but could'nt  generate 
an eruption around 1230.
 
Castle 0645ie minor.
 
Every time I looked down basin, Bijou was on. Grotto was not on between  0800 
and 1000, it was on between 1200 and 1300.
 
Oblong 1254ns.
 
Daisy 0921ie.
 
Nothing much to report at West Thumb. The lake is still frozen over and  
extremely low -- Fishing Cone is connected to the shore by a dry isthmus.  
Lakeshore Geyser is having boiling "eruptions" that sometimes reach up to 2 feet  
high. King Geyser might have been doing something, as it was putting up the  
biggest steam cloud in the area, but I couldn't tell for the steam. Lone Pine  was 
overflowing but not bubbling (Barry Leedy apparently saw it ie yesterday  
afternoon. From the pullout around the lakeshore north of Potts I could see  
brief splashing in the Empty Hole Group, one of which I think must have been  
Resurgent. I also saw some small splashing from a feature in the southern part  of 
the Beach Group.
 
Overheard at FPP, at the closest approach to the mud pots themselves, by a  
tour guide (there were three tour vans in the parking lot; I don't know which  
this guy belonged to): "There's no point in going farther. There is one small  
geyser out there but it almost never erupts." Wotta guy.
 
Overheard a week or so ago, at Plume. "Where's Old Faithful?" "That's it  
over there," said I. Blank look. "Oh. Why did they put this walk over  here?"
 
Ah, well.
 
Scott Bryan



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