[Geysers] UGB on July 12, 1883

[David Schwarz]

   Sounds like 1997, except that we usually ate the bacon and potatoes for
breakfast.

David Schwarz

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:17 AM, JOChapple <jochapple at earthlink.net> wrote:

> That geyser gazers should be so lucky in the 21st century!
>
> I just came across this quote from a trip account manuscript by H. B.
> Wiley. It appeared in the Spring 1953 (Vol. 3, no. 2) issue of Montana,
> Magazine of Western History.
>
> Thursday, same camp. [We] have seen Old Faithful in eruption four times
> and as I write, it is at it again. . . After supper of bacon and friend
> [sic] potatoes we had a smoke and were thinking of turning in when hearing
> a mighty rambling and feeling a trembling of the earth, we rushed out to
> find that the Giant was in eruption. It is a terrible geyser. Just as we
> started to return we saw the Fan in eruption and rushed down there and
> before that was over the Riverside erupted. So we went to see that. We
> started homeward again but hearing another rush, we looked over and saw the
> Splendid in motion. So over we went and saw a most beautiful spectacle. The
> sun had set, but the moon was clear so that we had a view of Splendid by
> moonlight. It is a geyser of great beauty and the effect of the moonlight
> was very weird and beautiful. The "Grotto" was in full eruption also.
>
> Janet Chapple
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