<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 10/27/2004 19:56:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, barger@tritel.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Approximately 1/5 to 1/4 of the width of the river was turned brown by Link's run-off. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I recall that when Link had the eruptive series in August 1974 (it's first in quite a while), the river got so muddy that Naturalist Jerry Carlson, at Biscuit Basin, queried by NPS radio as to why the Firehole River was muddy...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></BODY></HTML>