[Geysers] Norris Access

[MA Bellingham]

I have been reminded by helpful friends that you can take the "Bathtub Bypass" to avoid the steps near the museum.  The grade once you gain the asphalt at the junction and need to go Up to the boardwalk is steep, but it's short. I am not sure how the rest of the grade is, or how rough the earthen walk is, but it would be the shortest route to Porcelain without steps.  I just don't take that much since we don't have the view into Bathtub anymore.  (Thinking about the good old days...) 

Also note that I typed my email address wrong in the previous reply to the list.  

Thanks, MA

M.A. Bellingham
 mabdepot at msn.com

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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 05:54:28 -0600
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Geyser Report Sunday, July 15, 2012





The play at Graceful would suggest it was coming from a large (blown out) vent, it was wide bursting action, like a mini-Grand.  We all commented that it was more powerful than "graceful". 

Closed intervals were around 3 hours, and durations were 8, 10 and 12 minutes.  I also noted this in my logbook on July 3 with a ?, as I only knew Graceful as a name on a map. The Norris log has other eruptions listed as "large geyser at the base of the hill" beginning about 2 weeks ago.  I'll look at the log again and pinpoint when this activity was first seen. 

There are no changes in accessibility in the museum area, entering Porcelain still involves the museum steps, and the steep asphalt pitch before you reach the boardwalk.  Accessibility improvements bypassing the museum (I would use it as a short-cut) would be a great idea.  

MA

MA Bellingham
mabepot at msn.com

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Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:06:31 -0600
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Geyser Report Sunday, July 15, 2012






















A question about access at Norris.  With Incline and Graceful (I thought
Graceful's vent blew apart in the 80s) active we may make a trip to that blessed
basin while in the park.  I know they re-routed the boardwalks in the back
basin, but what about porcelain??  You used to go down the steps through the
museum, and I would have a hard time with those.  Can you get to the Porcelain
Terrace overlook without going on stairs?

                    

Paul Strasser

 

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[mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Lasseter

Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:13 PM

To: Geyser Observation Reports

Subject: [Geysers] Geyser Report Sunday, July 15, 2012

 

I found myself unexpectedly at Norris today.  What was to be a
hike

never left Norris
 Geyser Basin,
where there was lots of intersting

activity.  The UGB data reported here is compliments of Kitt
Barger.

Norris data collected by MA Bellingham, Rocco Paperiello, Clark

Murray, and myself.

 

Beehive: 0651 (indicator @ 0636)

Grand: 0727 T2Q

West Triplet: 0749ie

Plume: 0713

Oblong: 0720ns

Riverside:
1029

Fountain: 1036ie

 

Whirligig: 1024  d=approx 3 minutes  great sound effects!

Constant: I saw several, but did not intend to linger there and was

not recording times

Incline Geyser ie: (this is what grabbed our attention big time at

about 0800)  Rocco dashed over to verify, then we both relocated
from

Constant to Incline, hoping for a repeat.

Graceful: 1st approx 0800-0820, 2nd 1115

Collapsed Cave geyser: approx 40foot angled eruption during the 2nd
Graceful

Vixen: minors at 1109 (40 sec, 6-8ft), 1158 (40sec, 8ft), 1249 (75sec,

13-14ft), 1341 (35sec, 8-10ft)

 

There was a black wolf feeding on an elk carcass at the base of the

Chocolate pots on my way home.   For 2 days in a row now I
have seen a

bald eagle in the dead tree on the S side of the W entrance rd approx

1 mile W of the old nest across from a convenient pullout.

 

Tomorrow I will be out of the basin.

 

Barbara Lasseter

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