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

[Lee_Whittlesey at nps.gov]

Lynn---Spire Geyser seems to work. I checked my master obsolete-names list
as well as the active-names list and it does not appear in either place.
That is a good thing, because we're trying to avoid duplications of names.
Nor does the new name break any rules of which I'm aware.

Can you give me a more descriptive location?

Lee Whittlesey



                                                                           
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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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