[Geysers] Tangled Creek area -- "Spire Geyser"

[Lynn Stephens]

Scott,
 
   It sounds like the "new" geyser out in the Tangled Creek Group area is the geyser I first saw last summer.  After checking with Sam Holbrook, Bill Lewis, and Rocco Paperiello, they agreed the feature had not previously been seen and had not been named, so I named it "Spire."  It was not active while I was in the Park May 18-June 9.  Maureen Edgerton and MA Bellingham reported it active starting June 21. (MA reported it on June 21. I believe Maureen reported she'd also reported it a couple times earlier that week.)   Last August it was having intervals of 35 to 55 minutes with durations of 5 to 7 minutes.  I reported Spire's activity on the listserv and Tara Cross included it in the "Summary of Current Geyser Activity" in the October 2011 issue of The Sput.  MA Bellingham posted a picture of it on Facebook last Fall.
 
  There was also another smaller features, with shorter splashing type eruptions of maybe 2-3 feet maximum height active out there in in the area to the north of "Spire" that was also active last fall.    Gemini:  The first reported eruption this season was from Maureen Edgerton on June 15.  She also reported it active on June 21.
 
Lynn Stephens
From: TSBryan at aol.com
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 17:40:35 -0400
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Subject: [Geysers] Tangled Creek area





A short note here, primarily leaving it for others to post a list of times. Suffice to say that today was extremely windy. That led to Daisy having intervals of about 3 hours. But "on time" we got Grand, Beehive, Riverside. Spa was active during a Grotto marathon. Castle had a major. Saw Uncertain. A long series by Lion.
 
After some number of Morning Thiefs, Fountain erupted at 0851. I wasn't there, but I think those who were said the duration was just 32 minutes.
 
In the Lower Basin as I departed I found Gemini empty and dry. The bacterial areas in the runoffs were drying, too. Did Gemini erupt? Don't know, for as I sat there for about an hour it repeatedly filled, then dropped. Finally filled completely and just sat there with no bubbling. So I left.
 
As I left, I saw a "new" geyser out in the Tangled Creek Group area. I've never seen it before. It was on the far left of the group, rising from near the right side of the most distant area of bare ground. Way out there, the steady, pulsing jet easily reached halfway up the background trees, leading me to think the height was 20 feet or so. From the time I first saw the eruption (1322ie) the duration was 8 1/2 minutes. As the play went along, the height gradually dropped until it was not more than 3 or 4 feet high, but then it surged up to near 20 feet again before rapidly dying down and fully quitting. Very nice geyser. I would appreciate any future reports of this activity.
 
While I was at White Dome/Gemini, Cathy Bell installed a new monitor on Great Fountain.
 
Hoping for less wind tomorrow.
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