[Geysers] Geyser Activity at Canyon?

[Eric Hatfield]

I had a similar thought recently.  Standing at Artist Point this summer, looking straight down, something was steaming A LOT.  It was very obvious on a hot summer day, so it isn't trivial.  It was certainly more than I remember.  Anybody know specifics about what's directly below Artist Point?

It's peculiar to think that these features are among the park's most proximate to crowds, but are NEVER visited.  Really, probably zero people per year.  Not only nearly impossible to go down there, but almost certainly illegal too.  Has anybody been down in the upper part of the canyon?


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 From: JEFFREY CROSS <jeff.cross at utah.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:26 PM
Subject: [Geysers] Geyser Activity at Canyon?
 
Although the Canyon and Lower Falls are viewed by millions of people each year, the geysers found in the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone almost never get mentioned anywhere.

I've heard only one comment made in the last 25 years about these geysers, and that was that the name "Phantom Bridge Geyser" was proposed for a geyser in the bottom of the canyon.  Its eruptions sometimes span the Yellowstone River, and appear as a ghostly bridge of spray and steam, hence the name.

Does anyone have recent (or any) information on the thermal features at Canyon?

Jeff Cross
jeff.cross at utah.edu
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