[Geysers] Geyser Report 5/21/09 Stephens

[Lynn Stephens]

NOTE:  THIS POST IS FOR THE PERSONAL USE OF THE READERS OF THIS LSTERV AND IS NOT TO BE REPRODUCED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE, including publication in the Sput.  (I will incorporate information into an article for the Sput.)

 

I was watching Geyser Hill yesterday evening (5/21) so was able to call the Indicator at 1752, Beehive start 1804 for an interval of about 12 1/2 hours.  (Jim Schreirer said Vicki Whitledge had this morning's eruption 0535 +/- a minute or so.)  Jim also told me Grand had had a "blue bubble" start, but unfortunately no gazers with video cameras were present.

 

I stayed after Beehive to get a closed interval on Plume of 66 minutes; Little Cub intervals of about 44 minutes and 37 minutes (times were all near start).

 

Since I didn't want to continue unpacking, I went out to Flood.  Fortuitously it erupted at 1932, duration 6m0s.  Because the river was high, I expected Flood to be in its spring doldrums, so I stayed thinking I would just record "an interval in excess of..."  Instead, Flood had one minor eruption and then a major eruption (d=6:42) for an interval (major to major) of 52 minutes.

 

On my drive across Montana Tuesday I noticed the rivers were running high, although the dust was blowing so severely that driving was hampered at times between Deer Lodge and Anaconda.  Coming into the park, some the Madison and Firehole are running high, and Whiskey Flats is a lake.  I made a mental note to look at Island Geyser to see if it was erupting, or whether it had been drowned out.  I didn't have my logbook out, so don't remember whether it was Tuesday afternoon, Wednesday morning, or Thursday morning that I noted Island was erupting.  Yesterday (Thursday) evening as I was driving back from Flood, Island was definitely not erupting.  I stopped to watch it for 20 minutes.

 

During the 20 minutes I was there, there was no visible eruptive activity from Island.  I recorded two intervals for Jewel--one of 7 minutes, one of 8 minutes.  I also listened to frogs croacking, geese honking, and sandhill cranes calling to each other.  I watched a flock of birds flying around, presumably catching dinner and then watched the pair of sandhill cranes fly away to the north.  

 

The road to Great Fountain opens tomorrow (per Law Enforcement), so I'll spend some time in the office today catching up on converting the OFVEC logbooks to electronic format.

 

Lynn Stephens

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