[Geysers] September 20 Report

[Lynn Stephens]

Items added to the VC logbook from 9/19

 

Beehive 2217 (Indicator 2203)

Grand 2035nsie 2C

Oblong 2033ns

Spa "late afternoon or early evening"  (Kitt saw several large bursts over the trees but I didn't get an exact time)

 

9/20 Items in the VC logbook

 

Castle 0230E minor, 0725 major

Daisy 0713, 0941, 1228ie, 1502

Daisy 0140E, 0430E

Fountain 1123 (dur 32.5 min)

Grand 0510E, 1312

Great Fountain 1202, of =82, p =6 (midpoint of prediction 12:00)

Riverside 0652ns, 1249ie, 1846

Beehive 1159 (Ind = 1142)

Lone Star  1142vr minor, 1203 major, 1520 major

Plume 0718, 0812, 0905, 1003, 1107, 1352, 1901ie

Aurum 0935

Lion 0717, 1219, 1359, 1535

Little Cub 0748ns, 0832ie, 0912ie

Sawmill not ie 1900

West Triplet 1318

Oblong 0915ie, 1516

Uncertain 0632ie

Little squirt 0731

Depression 0924ns

Sputnik 1232, 1239, 1249ie, 1331ie, 1342

Rift 1438

Little Brother active 1058, 1243

Flood 1109ie

White Dome 1127, 1156, 1212

Narcissus 1133ie

Labial 1205

 

When I left the trailer this morning, Orion was clearly visible in the left hand portion of the sky, but the right hand portion of the sky was dripping on me.  The sky cleared so it was mostly sunny with some interesting clouds today, but it was windy and that wind was very brisk and cold.

 

Castle's major eruption this morning happened before the download giving the time for the overnight minor.  Kitt reported Castle said, "Oh look, Kitt and Jim are walking up toward me.  It's time to squirt them."  Yes, Kitt and Jim got rained on by Castle this morning.

 

I plan to be in Yellowstone through October 15, but decided this weekend might be the last weekend with a dozen or so gazers in the park, so we did "Truck o' Pancakes" in the DNBS parking lot this morning.  Besides, I thought pancakes would be a good way to use up the leftover cherry and blueberry toppings that didn't get used with the cheesecake last week.  Turned out there were a dozen gazers plus the cook who showed up for breakfast.  We also invited a couple other people, including one visitor who graduated from high school in the same town where I was born a decade earlier.  The visitor later showed up at Great Fountain and jokingly asked what was for lunch but I explained the "Truck o' Pancakes" had an extremely limited menu--exactly what the name says.

 

I watched the 1127 eruption of White Dome from the benches at Great Fountain.  The sun angle is such that even at almost noon there was a low rainbow in White Dome's curtain of water, although the red, orange, yellow portion of the rainbow was missing.

 

The turnout on the west side of the road just south of the Fairy Falls trailhead was closed today.  There is a bison carcass on the west edge of the Firehole River.  I don't know whether a bear has actually been sighted on the carcass yet, but bear management has the  roadside south of the entrance to the steel bridge closed through the pullout and a little farther beyond.  They did not yet have the entrance to the steel bridge closed and the Fairy Falls trailhead was still open when I came back from Great Fountain a little after noon yesterday.

 

I spent the afternoon at Fan & Mortar watching Angle never shut off and abysmal water levels until the last River Vent at 1755, which had great water levels through the nine minute mark, then crashed.  I stuck around to watch the next cycle because I wanted to try to get some rainbows in Riverside, which I did.  Unfortunately, the wind was blowing so hard that the water column was getting blown back on itself and it was so cool that there was more steam than water, but at least there was a rainbow.

 

Ann and Darrell Scharf came in today for a short trip.  Steve Bezore and his friend Al leave early Monday morning so we'll still have about a dozen gazers here for a couple more days.

 

Comment from a visitor while I was at Fan & Mortar this afternoon--When I quietly and politely informed a couple who had brought their medium- to large-size dog down to Morning Glory that dogs weren't allowed on the boardwalks (or trails, etc.) in Yellowstone, their somewhat huffy reply was  "Well, they let us take dogs to Old Faithful," and the couple kept on walking.

 

Lynn Stephens

 

 

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