[Geysers] Strange feature

[MA Bellingham]

Scott-  I almost got there, once.  It was during the nightly Gibbon road closures which meant a later start, and a forced turnaround and return to beat the barricade closure to return home (north).  In fact that night I was one of the last cars through before the full complete closure of the road, which we  remember didn't play out so well when the Arnica fire closed the Lake area roads too.  It was a nice walk with little vertical; we didn't get as far as we had hoped, but I wish I had!   

I'd be game to try again this summer; email me privately if anyone is interested. 

MA

M.A. Bellingham
mabdepot at msn.com

From: TSBryan at aol.com
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:43:39 -0400
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Subject: [Geysers] Strange feature






For some reason -- probably has to do with being "stuck" in southern 
Arizona for another three months -- I was using Google Earth to look at 
places in Yellowstone. For some reason (no idea why, really) I zoomed in on the 
Spruce Creek-Juniper Creek area, a few miles up Nez Perce Creek well beyond the 
Morning Mist area.
 
First, here is what Allen & Day (pp. 283-284) had to say about that 
area:
 
     The southern branch of Nez Perce Creek is formed 
by the junction of Spruce and Juniper Creeks, cold mountain streams which 
receive no warm water till they near the meadow where they unite. Three-quarters 
of a mile up Spruce Creek, the explorer comes upon an old sheet of siliceous 
sinter, along the western border of which a mild type of acid activity of 
limited extent still persists.
     On the banks of Juniper Creek there is nothing of 
a thermal character except a few quiet pools embedded in ancient sinter, and 
along a little tributary of the creek from the south, a small number of acid 
springs, characterized by meager sulphur deposits, yield not more than 0.1 sec. 
ft. of warm water. --end--
 
OK, so two Google Earth photos are attached. The first serves as a map to 
the area, with the trailhead, Morning Mist/Culex, and a really odd looking 
feature marked. The second photo is a close up of that strange feature, which my 
wife calls "The Alien."
 
What is it? Any explorers out there game of a 15 mile (round trip) hike? 
(Won't be me!)
 
Scott Bryan
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