<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for the clarification Karen.  I was headed toward Castle on the bike path and Doug was in the lower parking lot.  I started to call Plume at 1441(which had last erupted at 1330), but then I realized the burst was taking too long and seemed to be slightly misplaced.  The eruption lasted at least a minute, built to the size of a healthy Plume eruption, and maintained that height until it suddenly quit.  The water appeared to be a muddy yellow.  Doug thought Anemone had had a huge eruption, but I remembered hearing something about a hole on the other side of the boardwalk from Plume and West of Anemone, but I couldn't remember the name (if it had one).  I managed to stop my bike and after puzzling a moment, I decided to take a photo, but just as I got ready to snap the picture the geyser quit.  Kitt Barger</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=yellowstonekaren@yahoo.com href="mailto:yellowstonekaren@yahoo.com">Karen Low</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=geysers@wwc.edu href="mailto:geysers@wwc.edu">geysers@wwc.edu</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 25, 2005 7:27 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Geysers] Pathetic Little Hole</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>David asked me to forward this message to the listserv, since he still hasn't joined.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"Pathetic Little Hole Erupts!"<BR><BR>     All year long the little spouter just down slope from the Anemones<BR>has enjoyed slightly higher water levels than usual.  There was usually <BR>a<BR>standing water level visible at the bottom of the crater.  In early <BR>August<BR>the water levels rose even more.  Karen Low observed that the crater<BR>was about half full and spounting as high as a foot or two on Oct 8.<BR>Additionally she noticed that a distinct runoff channel left the crater<BR>and ran about 10-12 feet before disappearing in the gravel.  It <BR>appeared<BR>as though there had been a small eruption of some kind.  This condition<BR>persisted through at least Oct 19.<BR>     On Oct 23 both Kit Barger and Doug Holstein saw a geyser erupt<BR>on Geyser Hill which they could not identify.  It was 20-25 feet tall <BR>but<BR>seemed to last too long to be Plume (about 40 seconds).  From Doug's<BR>vantage it looked as though it were coming from Big Anemone.  When<BR>I checked today (Oct 24) there was was all around "Pathetic Little<BR>Hole" and a runoff channel going all the way to the river.  It had also<BR>torn apart the crater rim and was full to within inches of overflow <BR>with<BR>milky water.  Minor eruptions were frequent and sometimes as much as<BR>four feet tall.  It was not clear whether the minor eruptions were<BR>progressing towards another 25 footer, but there was definitely alot<BR>of energy present.  The larger minors briefly put a nice flow down the<BR>newly carved channel.  This feature will bear watching.<BR><BR>David Goldberg<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV> <P> <HR SIZE=1> <A href="http://us.lrd.yahoo.com/_ylc=X3oDMTFqODRtdXQ4BF9TAzMyOTc1MDIEX3MDOTY2ODgxNjkEcG9zAzEEc2VjA21haWwtZm9vdGVyBHNsawNmYw--/SIG=110oav78o/**http%3a//farechase.yahoo.com/">Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click.</A> <P> <HR> <P></P>_______________________________________________<BR>Geysers mailing list<BR>Geysers@wwc.edu<BR>https://mailman.wwc.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>