<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>I thank Mike and several others for the info about Bob Hoffman, which I am certain I had not previously heard. (It was much more recently than a year ago that Udo sent me a GOSA address list, with Bob included, so...) Anyhow, a touch of info for any who did not know him:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Bob Hoffman for years spent most of the summer in YNP, and was the "guardian" of Great Fountain, catching it 24/7. His license plate was GRT FTN, but it could almost as well have been PNK CONE, for that is where he'd be if Grt Ftn wasn't due. (If this sounds like a certain current gazer, well...kinda.) The reason why Bob stopped going to YNP had to do with lung/breathing problems -- emphysema, I guess -- and he just couldn't take the altitude. At his home in San Francisco, he apparently had an award winning collection of orchids.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>(Mike: Sorry -- didn't mean to send this separately to you)</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>