<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV><SPAN class=203310601-25022006>Some years ago another volunteer and I were mapping weeds in the Lower Basin and visited the springs southeast of Tank Spring.  The whole hillside is a wet, boggy place.  There were numerous seeps and a few small flowing springs but no evidence of recent or not-so-recent activity other than warm water flowing.</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=203310601-25022006></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=203310601-25022006>Ralph Taylor</SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT id=role_document face=Arial> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 2/23/2006 4:22:23 PM Pacific Standard Time, mabdepot@msn.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial> <DIV class=RTE> <P>and the Firehole area... I have often wondered what the "Old Geyser" is on Bechler "Lower Geyser Basin" map.  En route to looking up something else... </P></DIV> <DIV></DIV>MA </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I'm sort of sorry it was only a snip of Bechler's map. (Question: is that 1871?)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Old Geyser -- It looks to me as if it must be one of those several springs that are southeast of the Pink Cone area, across Tangled Creek, and beyond and upslope of the Tank. I've often looked over there to where there are quite a few features but I've never seen any action.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It's pretty clear, too, that % Minute Spouter is today's Artesia Geyser.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks. Always fun.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>