<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16481" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/25/2007 5:10:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time, snorkology@sysmatrix.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>I keep seeing this feature on the hill beyond the Back Basin, and<BR>forgetting to ask someone about it. It's very noticeable, is it a large<BR>fumarole, a geyser, a perpetual spouter? An over-achieving mudpot?<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Well, surely that is Emerald Spring in the near foreground and we're looking more-or-less toward the west. So therefore, that feature is Recess Spring, which in recent yers has erupted, either as a perpetual spouter or a very-short interval geyser, to as high as 15 feet. Back in 1974, when I was a ranger at Norris, Recess was a bubbling pool. And now largely inactive (not showing at all in Grover's photo, I don't think), in the next alcove to the south is Psychedelic Steam Vent; when active its steam is obvious, but the vent itself cannot be seen from anyplace but actually in the alcove.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Get a sneak peek of the all-new <A title="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" href="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>