[Geysers] Morning Mist.- Attached are some photos. I have left them in high resolution.

[inezaustin at aol.com]

 The ones I posted were taken July 3, 2011. The pool usually looks as you said, at the level of the inner pool, very hot but no overflow.  It only fills as high as you see in the photos for the eruption.  It only overflows prior to and during the eruption.  Once the eruption stops the drain is quick.  So if you see overflow and the pool is full you are most likely within 12 hours of eruption. I have seen it a minimum of once a year since I began coming to the park in 1957. The intervals have ranged from 3 days to as many as 18, but the spring and early summer have never been very trackable.   I haven't skipped any years since 1967.  That said, you have to be willing to look daily.  It's a great walk, or for me now, a wheel, since I can no longer walk.  I stopped reporting times for the more obscure geysers more than a decade ago when the VC decided we could no longer write in, and later look at, the book. Inez



 

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From: Eric Hatfield <conanvandt at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 9:03 pm
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Morning Mist.- Attached are some photos. I have left them in high resolution.



I certainly got the impression that it stopped erupting for a long period of time, at least during some of the 90s.  Each time I visited it, the pool looked cool, was several inches below the inner rim, and the outer crater from your pictures had not been full for a very long time.  The runoff channel was clear but empty.  
 
What are the dates of your pictures?
 
I'm glad to hear that it is erupting.  I'll have to revisit it (despite the horrible bugs I suffered on my previous trips.)
 
I vote for an electronic monitor...........




From: "inezaustin at aol.com" <inezaustin at aol.com>
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Sent: Sun, July 24, 2011 10:23:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Morning Mist.- Attached are some photos. I have left them in high resolution.

I have never known it to be dormant.  It simply depends on the time of year when it comes to the interval.  Since there are not longer log books at the trail heads and there has been difficulty leaving times at the VC it is very difficult to know when it erupts.  I leave a marker and it gets washed.  Some years in the fall it has a lot of aborted eruptions.I would think you have simply been unlucky.  

Attached are two photos.  I have left them in fairly high resolution so you can see them. One shows the pre-eruptive bubbles and the second a typical 3-4 foot eruption.  Please be aware that they shall not be published without my permission and that my name must remain on them.  Inez 



Spelling error on Goggles......spell check just loves that one.  When I refer to "Pre-eruptive bubbles rarely last for more than 4 hours" I am talking late summer and fall.

Yes, the overflow goes into Nez Perce Creek.

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Subject: [Geysers] Morning Mist.



Thanks for this description.  This is the most information I've ever heard about it.  As I understand, MMG has been dormant for decades.  When did it reactivate?




From: "Inezaustin at aol.com" <Inezaustin at aol.com>
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Cc: Inezaustin at aol.com
Sent: Sat, July 23, 2011 4:49:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Geysers] 19, 20, and 21 July 2011 (Schwarz)


I am at the cabin in Oregon at the moment so I do not have the latest photos and info.  I have been watching this geyser for almost 50 years.
 
Spring/early summer Morning Mist eruptions start with a full pool that has been in overflow for at least 6 hours.  It is not unusual for it to have aborted eruptions.  They happen at the beginning of the cycle and are like a giant burp that fills the pool with gold glitter and pine needles.  The pool (as always) then drains to about 8 feet and stays that way, slowly filling for about a week.
 
That said.  It acts much like Artemesia.  The right side of the deep pool and eventually the center have large series of big bubbles (old time silver dollar) slowly rising in groups of 3-10 bubbles then small doming when thousands of small bubbles (dime size and smaller) erupt together.  The small bubbles are a prediction of eruption. Once it gets going it has three areas of eruption, always starting to the right (stand on the end of the pool 180 degrees from the run off channel facing the pool.  The majority of large eruptions come from the center. The third area is to the left under the overhang of the deep pool.  The pool rises and falls, watch the biscuits on the sides.  Not quite pulsations like the Googles. As the end of the eruption approaches this is quite noticeable like it is at Spa Geyser.
 
Spring/early summer eruptions can last for more than a day, sometimes for three days or more.  Lots of overflow!  Pre-eruptive bubbles rarely last for more than 4 hours.  Most eruptions are in the 2-3 foot range in the spring with occasional bursts to 6-8 feet.  Summer/Fall eruptions are much shorter in time but much higher (8-10 feet), last often less than an hour and range in the 8-15 day interval cycle.  Spring/early summer are impossible to predict.  
 
Once I am home I can refer to my notes and post photos if you want.  I have photos of the several geyser areas in that  area and in the meadows upstream of the OFL cabins I have taken.
 
Inez
 

In a message dated 7/23/2011 4:22:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, TSBryan at aol.com writes:

Minds interested in them all want to know -- on Morning Mist.........
 
Were these distinct eruptive times, or some sort of "high points" in an extended eruption?
 
Was the pool full and overflowing? If so, any idea as to how long it had been in overflow.
 
Any other details would be nifty.... er no, I guess "Nifty" is now used as a UGB geyser. So it would be cool. Thanks
 
Scott Bryan
 

In a message dated 7/21/2011 3:39:40 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, schwarzmb at gmail.com writes:
19 July 2011:

     Morning Mist  1315 (7'),  1434 (4'),  1436 (6'),  1550 (3'),  1621 (to 2')  from Dick Powell



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