[Geysers] Cone Walker News

[Stephen Eide]

Hello Kurt,

The webcam operators are volunteers, and at the time I think several people
were calling the law enforcement rangers.  Someone had to get through first.
 It just took a while for the ranger to drive to the area and intervene.
The NPS just doesn't have enough staff to man the cameras.

Stephen Eide

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Kurtis Hoppe <kurtishoppe at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  I'm sure that it's been said already, but who exactly controls the
> streaming webcam?  And why didn't the operator notify the rangers?  Unless
> this fellow Wisconsinite of mine was just too quick of a dialer.  Just
> curious.
>
> Kurt Hoppe
>
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> *From:* "Whitledge, Vicki M." <WHITLEVM at uwec.edu>
> *To:* Geyser Observation Reports <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
> *Sent:* Sunday, May 1, 2011 9:39 PM
> *Subject:* [Geysers] Cone Walker News
>
>
> Below an article on the incident from Associated Press.
>
> Vicki Whitledge
>
>
> Webcam catches tourists walking on Old Faithful
>
> YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. – Yellowstone National Park rangers say
> they've handed out $125 tickets to three people after someone watching by
> webcam saw tourists walking dangerously close to the iconic Old Faithful
> geyser.
>
> Someone from Wisconsin called rangers to report the errant tourists
> Wednesday. A park ranger found about 30 people standing around the geyser's
> cone taking pictures.
>
> Venturing off boardwalks in Yellowstone is extremely dangerous. Only a thin
> crust of soil covers boiling-hot water in places. Hot water has severely
> burned several people in Yellowstone over the years.
>
> Standing near Old Faithful is doubly dangerous. Old Faithful erupts with
> scalding blasts of 204-degree water. The eruptions occur every hour or two —
> less predictable than the geyser's name suggests.
>
> Rangers cited the tour group leader, bus driver and a tour
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