[Geysers] Saturday report

[Patrick and Tami Elder]

Udo,
Thanks for the reply! Being from Oklahoma, I appreciate your Will Rogers quote.

Patrick

--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Freund, Udo <udo.freund at lmco.com> wrote:

From: Freund, Udo <udo.freund at lmco.com>
Subject: RE: [Geysers] Saturday report
To: "'Geyser Observation Reports'" <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 8:27 AM



 
Geyser gazers use FRS walkie talkies 
set to channel 4 sub-code 5.  Rangers at the visitor center also listen in 
and use them when needed.  Many of us have had good experiences with the 
Motorola brand, which are available at many retailers and online.  Most 
other brands are compatible but some cheapies aren't.  I don't recall which 
brands are incompatible.
 
Channel 4 code 5 also is a shared 
frequency with GMRS walkies, which are more powerful than FRS, but the user 
needs an $85 FCC license to legally operate a GMRS radio.  Due to 
greater power GMRS can send a signal farther than an FRS can 
reply.  For more information on both types I suggest searching the 
web.
 
FRS = Family Radio 
Service
GMRS = General Mobile Radio 
Service
Thanks, 
Udo Freund 
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you 
just sit there."
--Will Rogers 
 



From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu 
[mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Patrick and 
Tami Elder
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 3:39 AM
To: Geyser 
Observation Reports
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Saturday 
report




  
  
    I am new to this group and was wondering about the radio 
      that Polly refers to in this report. Is it something that anyone can 
      obtain and use?
Thanks in advance.
Patrick

--- On Mon, 
      4/19/10, Polly Panos <pollypanos at earthlink.net> 
wrote:

      
From: 
        Polly Panos <pollypanos at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Geysers] 
        Saturday report
To: "new - geyser reports" 
        <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 
        9:36 PM


        Hello All!
   I was fortunate 
        enough to be able to make a weekend trip to the park with my husband, 
        George.  It was so great to be there!
Here are the geyser times 
        that I had for Saturday, April 17:
   Old Faithful was 
        ie at 804 as I got my gear together to head out.  I headed towards 
        Castle, where I watched the basin for some time.  The weather was 
        overcast, and as the morning progressed, we had steady rain and then 
        some snow.  
   0827 
        Plume
   Sawmill was off.  A coyote was howling 
        and yipping somewhere out of sight near 
        Castle.
   0834 ie Riverside (steam 
        cloud)
   0853 ie Grotto (It was close to the 
        start.)
   0903 ie Daisy
   0905 
        Sawmill
   0922 Plume
   0945 ns Old 
        Faithful
   0955 Aurum was called on the 
        radio
   Sometime after this, I apparently leaned over 
        and dropped my radio in the rain.  It was a few minutes before I 
        realized it, and afterwards I found it I had a difficult time receiving 
        and sending messages.  
   I walked over to 
        Grand, and saw Bulger ie at 1034.
   1036 Plume (radio 
        call)
   At Grand, Victoria and I could see steam in 
        the Fan & Mortar vicinity.  It was not an eruption, but looked 
        steady enough to be something going on down there.  So, she walked 
        and I hopped on my bike to check.  She was past Grotto, and I was 
        nearly there when we heard a call of water in Beehive's Indicator.  
        (Of course - isn't that the way it goes!)  The Indicator was called 
        at 1106, and Beehive at 1111.  I was able to make it to Castle to 
        see Beehive take off, then rode up the path a ways to watch it.  
        Victoria was still walking, but she did catch Oblong ie at 1107.  
        (Later, we also had a report from Maureen that Fountain erupted at 
        1151.)
   Back at Grand, we had a steamy eruption at 
        1129.  I heard Turban start, and then a second later Grand rose up 
        through the steam.  (We couldn't see the pool.)  After an 11 
        minute first burst, I had little hope for a second.  We could not 
        see if there was still water there, but after a wait Grand suddenly shot 
        up for a second burst.  This burst lasted over 2 minutes.  
        Vent and Turban quit after Grand.
   Sawmill was off 
        before 1145 and Grotto was off before 1209.
Shades of Labor Day 
        Past:
   After Grand, I rode down to Fan & 
        Mortar.  When I arrived at 1210, River Vent was off and there was 
        steam in Main Vent.  I began to hear steam rushes from Main Vent, 
        and Bottom Vent began spritzing.  At 1216 I had my first Main Vent 
        splash.  Bottom Vent and Lower Mortar alternated splashing, and 
        Main Vent continued to splash.  (By this time, my radio was not 
        working at all, and I had to use my phone to call the Visitor's Center 
        so that they could relay reports.)  As the event cycle proceeded, 
        we had a double River Vent pause and many splashes from Main Vent, 2 of 
        which were quite large (the kind that are strong enough to have water 
        come out of Angle, too).  Sometime during all of this, my husband 
        came to my rescue and brought down a spare radio for me!  When 
        River came on at 1301, we had nice, high water levels.  By 1319, 
        High and Gold were steady and high enough to look like a lock.  
        They continued like this for several minutes.  It was steamy and 
        hard to see, but I did not see much steam from Main Vent during this 
        time, and there was NO steam in East Vent.  At 1326 we had one of 
        those Main Vent splashes that often sets off the eruption, but nothing 
        happened.  By 1329 Gold started to lose its punch, and by 1331, 
        Fan's vents had gone to steam.  Ouch!
   Oh, and 
        at 1250 Daisy was called.
   As we were getting ready 
        to head out, the bison herd that had been at Castle earlier came down 
        the bike path.  Most of them turned off to the river bank, but one 
        began walking across the bridge towards a group of us.  As we tried 
        to get out of his way, though, he rethought his path and went back with 
        the others.
   Some of us went to Riverside, which was 
        called at 1413.  As it was finishing, Grotto Fountain was called at 
        1433.  Grotto began erupting at 1435 - a nice, vigorous 
        start.
   I decided to go to Oblong and watched for 
        Daisy from there.  Daisy - 1533.
   Oblong at 
        1541 was steamy, but had great thumps.  
   Two 
        more radio calls before I left the basin - Aurum 1640 and Depression 
        1635ie.
   We went out to Fountain to wait for the 
        evening eruption.  Spasm was ie at 1727, probably near the 
        beginning of the eruption.  Fountain began at 1812.  It was a 
        beautiful, high eruption with the sun out and the wind blowing it away 
        from us. Morning's Thief was difficult to see with the wind direction, 
        but I saw it at 1813 and 1815.  Jet finally began at 1840.  
        The duration of Fountain was 31 minutes.

  More info about 
        Sunday and park conditions will come in a later report...
  
        Polly 
        Panos

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