<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>Nice photo of a geyser at Steamboat Hot Springs. So what geysers is it? I'll be interested in hearing what Paul and Suzanne Strasser have to say (did anybody else now on this list ever see a Steamboat geyser?), but here is my guess:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The map is the 1955 edition, so no doubt was actually produced during 1954. The eruption therefore must have occurred sometime in or before 1954.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The eruption is remarkably tall. How tall? The geyser is well beyong the person, so I am guessing the eruption to be not less than 20 feet high, and probably well over that.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Other than the really big geysers seen in the 1850-1870 period (up to 60 feet or more), the largest have generally been 12 to 15 feet, the notable exception being Spring #12, which Don White documented to 25 feet in December 1949 to January 1951. OOOOh, right time frame. There were other geysers then, too, but the largest (#13 and #24w) reached that 12 feet or so.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Well, anyhow, looking at the background in the photo, the view is torard the west. So I thinmk the eruption shows #24w. Damn, it was nice!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></BODY></HTML>