[Geysers] greetings from Old Faithful

[Udo Freund]

Happy post-solstice! We (my wife, Janet, our son, Eric, and his wife,
Reanna) were there on opening day for a way-too-short (isn't it always?)
visit on an Alpen Guides Bombardier. Having to break trails in sugary snow
limited our movement so we saw only a few geysers, Depression, Lion, Old
Faithful, Rusty ie, Jet, Clep ie and Great Fountain ie.  Knowing our time
was very limited I wanted to be out in the basin so I only stopped by the
VEC except for a quick bathroom break.  Memo: especially if you're one of
the first ones in bring snow shoes or XC skis. Alpen Guides forgot, too.
Doh!

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Have a great time. We're looking forward
to your posts.

 

Thanks, 
Udo Freund 
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there."  --Will Rogers

 

From: geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu
[mailto:geysers-bounces at lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Bell, Catherine
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 4:47 PM
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Subject: [Geysers] greetings from Old Faithful

 

Hello and happy almost-solstice from Rita, Annie, Landis, and Cathy (me),
the winter rangers at the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center.  

 

The interior of the park opened for the winter season on Sunday, December
15.  Things have been steadily picking up here over the course of the week,
but there haven't been many visitors out in the geyser basin yet.  Winter is
a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the geyser eruptions in peace, quiet, and
solitude.

 

We continue to use the same intervals for the predictable geysers as we did
in late summer, with good results:

Old Faithful: 90 min. after a long; all observed eruptions so far have been
longs

Castle: 13 hrs 30 min.; all eruptions this week have been majors

Grand: 7 hrs 30 min.

Daisy: 2 hrs 45 min; nice and consistent

Riverside: 6 hrs; we've had terrible luck seeing it (or even seeing
overflow) and so haven't had predictions for it for most of the week

 

As you may know, a likely eruption of Fan and Mortar was reported on Tuesday
(12/17 1117ie VR).  On Wednesday morning, we verified that F&M had in fact
erupted.  We will continue to check on F&M for signs of eruptions throughout
the winter.

 

Optimistically, I've been checking Giant, too.  Not surprisingly, it remains
dormant.  We've seen nothing from Giantess or Plume, either.

 

We've had a few lovely midafternoon eruptions of Beehive this week.  The
indicator has allowed us to get some visitors out there to enjoy it.  Lion,
too, has been putting on a nice show, with good daytime series observed on
December 15-19.

 

I'll be sending updates to the listserv throughout the winter season.  If
there's anything in particular you'd like me to include, please let me know.
I'm generally not going to give a laundry list of specific eruption times
because geysertimes.org seems to fill that need.  Additionally, please feel
free to contact me with any questions, comments, or observations!  I'd love
to hear from you ... or perhaps see some of you in person?  It would be
lovely if any of you could make the journey here this winter.

 

Finally, we at Old Faithful would like to give a great big thank-you to
Carolyn Aaronson for her sharp eyes on the webcam--it's always a real help,
but especially at this time of year when there are few people around in the
geyser basin.

 

 

--

Cathy Bell

Park Ranger

Old Faithful Visitor Education Center

Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190

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