[Geysers] Geyser in Round Spring Group

[Michael Goldberg]

This is purely speculative, but:

Pear Geyser was active during one or two years that I spent a lot of time 
in the Giant cage 10 or 15 years ago.  It would fit the description of a 
10-ish foot geyser playing from a pool in the Round Spring Group.

The OF logbook (as transcribed on the GOSA web site) shows reported 
activity in 2001, 2002 and 2004.  The logbook record is almost certainly 
incomplete, and I bear some of the blame for that.

Here's what I can remember of the eruptions.
The years I saw Pear erupt, it was cyclic in its activity.  Episodes of 
frequent eruptions (intervals <20 minutes) were separated by an 
undetermined number of hours of quiet.  A pool nearby was full and 
overflowing during Pear's series of eruptions and often not full at other 
times.  That's probably the feature listed as "Pear Spring" in T. Scott 
Bryan's book (3rd edition).

When I say the nearby pool was full and overflowing, what I actually mean 
is that there was a larger steam cloud over the pool location and 
continuing along the presumed runoff channel.  That's all you can see of 
it from the trail.

Michael Goldberg
Michael.Goldberg at uc.edu

On Tue, 2 Jul 2013, Barrett Southworth wrote:

> I saw whatever pool it was erupting on 6/27, around 4 pm.
>
> On 6/30/2013 11:19 PM, Micah Kipple wrote:
> Round Spring Geyser and UNNG-RSG-2 beside it are both active, although
>> I have not sat down and studied them yet. I have also received reports 
>> that there are periodic 10+ foot eruptions from a pool somewhere around 
>> them. I might have to sit on them this week and verify those reports, 
>> although it is possible that it could be a separate freak event.
>