[Geysers] Upper Geyser Basin, 4/06/09

[Karen Webb]

I must have gotten lucky. Same date, per webcam, I had the videocam on 
one computer while I was working on the other, looked over just in time 
to see Beehive's Indicator start (1407 by my computer clock) and then a 
gorgeous Beehive with excellent viewing conditions at 1417. I guess the 
still cam website has changed and I couldn't get my resident shortcut to 
bring it up till late in the eruption (had to find the cam manually), so 
this time may be off by a minute or two. If my body permitted, I would 
have been doing handsprings it was so lovely, and kind of fun to hit it 
by dumb luck. Thank you, whoever was working the cam --- it was framed 
perfectly.
Karen

Karen Low wrote:
> Hooray!  I found someone to go out in the basin with!  Actually, 
> Kristi asked at breakfast if I wanted to go ski the basin after work. 
>
> While driving the truck around from one side of the location to the 
> other, we caught Depression at 1254ie.  It was the first time I'd seen 
> Depression erupt in ages!
>
> There were absolutely no human tracks around.  When we were heading up 
> to Geyser Hill, I noticed Little Squirt was active (1807ie).  We 
> watched Old Faithful from by Scissors Spring and Depression Geyser at 
> 1834.  So if you saw people with the webcam, it was us.
>
> Tardy was on, and Sawmill had water down in the neck.  Percolator was 
> on, and Turban was erupting when we got to Grand.  We waited for 
> another Turban, and decided we should start heading back.  We were 
> taking our time and looking at things, including the new red mudpot by 
> the river upstream of the Castle Bridge, and chatting.  While at 
> Castle, Kristi said "oh, look!"  Grand was erupting back behind us 
> (1939 ie).
>
> We caught Old Faithful again at 2000.  It was a short eruption, but we 
> did have time to get a shot or two of it erupting with a beautiful 
> lavender sky behind, and the moon overhead.  Plume erupted at 2002.
>
> No sign of the grizzly, I didn't hear anything about him today; 
> yesterday he was on a carcass in the meadow by the overpass.  The only 
> mammals we saw were four cow elk (one with a radio collar) up on 
> Geyser Hill.  Also saw, a bald eagle, canada geese, ravens, bluebirds, 
> and heard off towards Solitary Geyser an owl hooting.
>
> Karen Low
>
> Karen Low
>
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