[Geysers] Upper Geyser Basin, 3/21/11

[Karen Low]

Went out in the basin for a little while today.  We had fresh snow last night, 
that was wet and heavy, so breaking trail was difficult, and my skis kept icing 
up.  There is a dead bison on Geyser Hill;  If you draw a line from Plume to 
Sponge, about a third of the way along that line from Plume is where the dead 
bison is.  Infant Geyser has a high water level.  I saw a couple of nice boils 
on Giantess.  Doublet was doing some nice thumps when I went by.  Dome 1049 ie, 
1133ie.  Plume 1102.

Sawmill and Tardy both had water in them, but neither was erupting.  Penta was 
spitting and gurgling, so I think it may have been post-eruptive, but then in 
the afternoon, I saw what looked like a steam phase eruption from it (~1330ie, 
Tardy was on then too).  Grand was an empty hole.  Bulger erupted at 1157.

Ran into Carolyn near Giant, and she said she'd seen a pause on Bijou earlier, 
and that Riverside was in overflow.  So I waited for Riverside, and it erupted 
at 1243.  Marathon Pool was pretty low, and Grotto was erupting whenever I 
looked at it.  As I was skiing the bike trail after watching Riverside, it did 
look like Bijou was at least very weak, if not off.

Caught Lion 1326ie from near Castle.

Karen Low


      
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