[Geysers] Geyser report 7/22 (Stephens)

[carol beverly]

Ditto what Scott and Bill said! Thanks so much for your reports!
CB
On Jul 23, 2015 8:16 PM, <billwarnock at wyellowstone.com> wrote:

>
> Lynn,
>
> Thanks for all your good observing and reporting for us.  We'll miss you
> too!  The emperor arrives Sat., so you'll just miss him.  Your Mexican hat
> seeds came up very well and are in flower now along with my flax and
> batchelor buttons and sweet willilams.  Nice combo.
>
> Travel safely, and see you in Aug.,
>
> Bill
>
>  -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Geysers] Geyser report 7/22 (Stephens)
> From: Lynn Stephens <lstephens2006 at hotmail.com>
> Date: Wed, July 22, 2015 8:30 pm
> To: "geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu" <geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu>
>
> Today was my last day in the park until I come back in August for my
> two-week camping trip with Cassidy and Connor.
>
> A few things from this week--
>
> I spent a couple hours at *Cliff* this morning.  Intervals for full pool
> to full pool eruption were 42 minutes and 1h06m.  One eruption started at
> 0637 and lasted 12 minutes.  The first "eruption" following the drain was
> at 0711, 22 minutes after Cliff had drained.  Continuous activity started
> at 0716, five minutes after the first activity, and it took three minutes
> to fill the crater.  This eruption lasted 5 minutes.  The first "eruption"
> following the drain was at 0735, 11 minutes after Cliff had drained.
> Continuous activity did not start until 0821, 46 minutes after the first
> "eruption."
>
> *Flood*--Yesterday I recorded two intervals--30 and 32 minutes.  All
> three eruptions had duration of 5 minutes.
>
> *Till*--Major to major intervals have averaged about 10h40m.  Today I
> timed an entire cycle.  The major eruption lasted 34 minutes and was
> followed by a pause 17 minutes from the end of the major eruption to the
> start of the first minor eruption.  There were 18 minors in the series of
> minors.  The last minor ended 3h47m after the start of the major eruption.
>
> *Great Fountain*--Barbara already reported that I saw one of the largest
> eruptions of Great Fountain I have ever seen on Monday.  My arm was
> sticking straight up to place the highest drops.  The volume of water that
> came crashing down sent a wall of water over the terraces.  The water was
> so thick that you couldn't see any sinter--it was just a solid mass of
> water coming off the large platform.  The river of water coming down the
> runoff channel appeared to be about 6 inches deep.
>
> *Gemini/Pebble*--I haven't seen Pebble overflow since July 13.  Ever
> since then the water level has only gotten above the dark brown ring in the
> crater once.  Most of the time the water level in Pebble hasn't covered the
> forked stick in Gemini's runoff channel.  "Series" vary from one to 10 or
> so eruption.  Most intervals within a series are about 10 minutes.
> Intervals from initial to initial can be as short as 35 minutes and as long
> as 4 hours.  Crack still spits occasionally, but, in my opinion, until
> energy shifts such that Pebble returns to overflow mode, I don't believe
> Crack has a chance of erupting.
>
> This morning *Pink Cone* backed up, probably starting an eruption at
> least an hour before 4 am.  When I arrived at 6 am the eruption was
> completely finished, Pink Cone was emitting light steam and no sound, all
> the road bubblers had finished, including the hole in the runoff channel
> from Bead, and the hole had drained.  Yesterday afternoon Pink Cone had
> some mid-cycle splashing or a minor eruption, as evidenced by water on the
> platform (it hadn't rained so the water had to have come from Pink Cone).
> Here's a case where mid-cycle splashing and/or minor activity resulted in
> an interval well on the short side of this season's intervals.
>
> Yesterday I saw two eruptions of *Labial*--5h45m apart.  This is the
> shortest interval I've recorded this season.
>
> *Pink's* intervals have varied from about 2 1/4 hours to just over 4
> hours, with durations varying from 2 to 8 minutes.
>
> Gentians started blooming on Fountain Flat Drive and along Firehole Lake
> Drive on Monday.  Some of the grasses have started turning golden brown so
> the purplish-blue gentian patches really stand out.
>
> I watched a bald eagle flying around Midway Geyser Basin on Monday.
> Usually I don't start seeiing them there until late August.  This morning I
> watched two blackbirds chasing a moountain bluebird at Black Sand Basin, a
> change from watching blackbirds chase ravens along Firehole Lake Drive.
>
> I saw my first hiker wearing a pistol on his hip today on a morning hike
> out to Fairy Falls.  He had a camera and a water bottle but wasn't carrying
> anything else except that pistol.
> .
> I heard a tour guide tell her group there are 14 geysers in the Fountain
> Complex that have been proven to have connections with each other.  I'm
> still trying to figure out which 14.
>
> I had to tell the two young men who wanted to know where Firehole Lake was
> so they could go swimming that I didn't think they really wanted to go
> swimming there because they would probably get scalded.  They didn't like
> the idea of Firehole Canyon swimming area with cold water and turned down
> my suggestion of Boiling River because they wanted something here in the
> Lower Geyser Basin.  But two suggestions were all I had for them.
>
> Lynn Stephens
>
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