From godsfireworks at yahoo.com Mon Mar 13 15:06:25 2017 From: godsfireworks at yahoo.com (Micah Kipple) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2017 22:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [Geysers] MICKEY HOT SPRINGS - CALL FOR INFORMATION. References: <14773065.6348634.1489442785509.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <14773065.6348634.1489442785509@mail.yahoo.com> CALL FOR INFORMATION-MICKEY HOT SPRINGS. Hello all gazers and hydrothermal enthusiasts! I am VERY excited to announce that in a couple weeks I will be traveling down to Mickey Hot Springs in southeastern Oregon to begin an undergrad research project for Central Washington University. Mickey Hot Springs is a small geothermal area in the Alvord Desert about the size of two football fields; it contains about two dozen thermal features, including one, maybe two small geysers. My research will be monitoring the surface activity, temperature, and water level of these springs over the course of the year in an attempt to correlate it with the level of a local groundwater well. I have been compiling information about this area for several months, and am now asking that if anyone has visual reports, observations, photos or videos of this area, they would be willing to submit them to me for background and archival information for my research. I have set up a PUBLIC google drive folder here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B7gWJVTHzBAAdGhRQUtodkRoTWc?usp=sharing for you to drop your files into. In order for me to keep track of everything PLEASE make a folder with your name on it before you submit your information. Thank you!? ?Micah Kipple Enjoy the Little Things! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <#/attachments/20170313/2ded6d23/attachment.html> From mabellingham at gmail.com Fri Mar 24 04:22:45 2017 From: mabellingham at gmail.com (M.A. Bellingham) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:22:45 -0600 Subject: [Geysers] Fairy Falls trailhead Comment Period Message-ID: Comment Period closes April 1st, 2017 https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectID=67630 From lisa.fisher at alumni.mines.edu Fri Mar 24 18:49:53 2017 From: lisa.fisher at alumni.mines.edu (lisa fisher) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:49:53 -0600 Subject: [Geysers] Fairy Falls trailhead Comment Period Message-ID: This Fairy Falls trailhead parking plan would seem to be a good idea. Am I missing anything? Lisa Fisher On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:22 AM, M.A. Bellingham wrote: > Comment Period closes April 1st, 2017 > > https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectID=67630 > _______________________________________________ > Geysers mailing list > Geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <#/attachments/20170324/baec4a22/attachment.html> From udofreund317 at gmail.com Sun Mar 26 19:19:49 2017 From: udofreund317 at gmail.com (Udo Freund) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 20:19:49 -0600 Subject: [Geysers] Fairy Falls trailhead Comment Period In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: It's actually a terrible idea, so of course, it will be implemented. This is my comment that I posted on the NPS form: The proposed parking area is partially located over known thermally heated ground. Removing soil from there is risky as it may uncover and/or reduce the solid ground cover over underground thermal waters. I have personally observed visitors using social trails in that area getting too close to thermal pools. The proposed parking area there would increase such unsafe activity. A better option would be to add an extension to the current Midway boardwalk on either the south (my preference) or north side of Grand Prismatic Spring (GPS) over to the (Freight Road) Fairy Falls trail. In the 1990's former Park Geologist Rick Hutchinson stored his "hot boat" on the south side of GPS and hiked to it from the Freight Road, so one can assume that a boardwalk could be built there. An additional benefit of having more boardwalk along the perimeter of GPS is having additional photographic angles when windblown steam may block the view from elsewhere. More parking could be added to the north end of the current Midway lot. That may require removing more trees but common sense tells me that that area isn't thermally heated. There is much more room on the north side of the Midway lot than the area of the new proposed lot. Since many visitors to the overlook would want to see the features at Midway anyway they could do so by making one stop, not two. Visitor turnover should be faster because the distance of such a single hike would be shorter than two hikes and two parking stops combined. The current Fairy Falls parking area could still be used by bicyclists wishing to ride the Freight Road. Hikers to Fairy Falls might be encouraged to use the Midway lot because it would shorten the walking distance considerably, creating faster turnover for that hike alone. The cost of adding a few hundred feet of boardwalk at Midway might offset the cost of constructing the proposed new parking area. The Midway parking lot is inadequate and needs to be expanded anyway to accommodate summer crowds and especially bus tours. A temporary expansion there could be paved at a later date. Thanks, Udo Freund On Mar 26, 2017 20:14, "lisa fisher" wrote: > This Fairy Falls trailhead parking plan would seem to be a good idea. Am I > missing anything? > Lisa Fisher > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:22 AM, M.A. Bellingham > wrote: > >> Comment Period closes April 1st, 2017 >> >> https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectHome.cfm?projectID=67630 >> _______________________________________________ >> Geysers mailing list >> Geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Geysers mailing list > Geysers at lists.wallawalla.edu > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <#/attachments/20170326/8537cff5/attachment.html>