[Geysers] North Goggles Major and Goggles Spring -- 4/22/2012 @ 1950

[Karen Webb]

Beautiful capture! Almost looked like Grotto Fountain and South GF for a 
few minutes there! Thanks so much. Hoping it hangs on till 4th of July!
Karen Webb

On 4/23/2012 10:08 PM, Jacob Young wrote:
> Hello,
> I visited Yellowstone this past weekend with my girlfriend Diana for 
> my first ever Old Faithful opening weekend and was able to witness a 
> major eruption of North Goggles that was accompanied by a bursting 
> eruption of Goggles Spring.
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> I've posted a video here: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGyFoLNaI2U&feature=youtu.be 
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGyFoLNaI2U&feature=youtu.be>
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> The eruption started within 2 minutes of Lion Geyser finishing its (at 
> least) 18th eruption in a series.  Both North Goggles and Goggles were 
> boiling continuously about 2 inches below overflow and North Goggles 
> was rising into 4-6 inch boils (sometimes a foot!) every 30 seconds or 
> so when we arrived just minutes before Lion's eruption at 1945. North 
> Goggles certainly looked ready to erupt.  This activity continued 
> during Lion's eruption and afterwards until one of the bigger boils 
> built into the eruption.  The setting sun came out from behind the 
> clouds on the horizon and cast a beautiful light on this spectacular 
> eruption and we were the only ones there to enjoy it!  I feel very 
> lucky to have been there for what will surely be a much sought-after 
> event for all gazers this season!
>
> I know very little about The Goggles, but I know Goggles Spring 
> eruptions are rare.  I seem to recall talk of Goggles Spring once 
> erupting over the boardwalk, which it didn't do this time, but you can 
> see in the video that it was "belching" water to 5 feet or so from 
> somewhere down inside the cone.  Graham Meech has commented that 
> Goggles Spring may have been active during a previous North Goggles 
> major this spring as seen on the webcam so I suspect this event might 
> be becoming a little more common.
>
> Lion had another major eruption an hour later at 2047 on its first 
> roar and it didn't struggle one bit to erupt as it sometimes can do. 
>  The Goggles had been rumbling at depth for at least 10 minutes after 
> their eruption, but were quiet now and had almost no steam.  I don't 
> know if that was the end of the Lion series or not, but I left feeling 
> satisfied.
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> Happy Gazing,
> Jake
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