Jim, Should the "Today" actually be the 19th?; that is, the day after the umbrella blew into the crater? If so, then why did it take the NPS so long to take action? Seems to me that Heasler et al. made something of a show of the situation. But then, I wasn't there. Scott In a message dated 9/19/2013 6:20:25 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, jimscheir at aol.com writes: Today (September 18) I watched as Dr. Heasler's properly-outfitted thermal cleaning team retrieved from a full and overflowing pool the battered - but intact - umbrella using a long-handled spoon. Barbara Lasseter took a picture of Rich returning triumphantly from Grand with the umbrella. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20130923/38d71ace/attachment.html>