[Geysers] Geyser report 7/22 (Stephens)

[Lynn Stephens]

Bill,
    I'm glad the flower seeds worked out.
    Tell John (and Cindy) hello.  Sorry I'll miss them.   Take care.
Lynn
 
From: billwarnock at wyellowstone.com
To: geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:08:39 -0700
Subject: Re: [Geysers] Geyser report 7/22 (Stephens)


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


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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.
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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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