<!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 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=482463201-12032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Well, darn.  The insomnia didn't time well.  Maybe it'll help in the long run, though.  Thanks for all your work on tracking this down what you can on this - fun to hear the field reports! :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=482463201-12032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=482463201-12032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Janet White</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Karen Low<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, March 10, 2008 9:35 PM<BR><B>To:</B> geyser<BR><B>Subject:</B> Fwd: RE: [Geysers] Geyser Eruption at West Thumb, (03/01/2008)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV>It may be just barely too late to show the pic around to other drivers to see if it is what they saw on March 1st.  Tomorrow morning, ~530, we start hauling employees out of Faithful and back to civilization.  Most of the drivers are leaving the park tomorrow, and I don't have email addresses for them, and I'll be at Faithful for another couple of days.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I got a text from Jason Tibbetts (Xanterra snowmobile guide); it sounds like he saw Giant this afternoon.  I didn't get any details from him, so hopefully he'll post them himself.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Karen Low<BR><BR><B><I>Janet White <janet@snowmoon.us></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">From: Janet White <janet@snowmoon.us><BR>To: 'Geyser Observation Reports' <geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu><BR>Subject: RE: [Geysers] Geyser Eruption at West Thumb, (03/01/2008)<BR>Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:22:53 -0600<BR><BR> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR> <DIV><SPAN class=921573006-10032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Karen,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=921573006-10032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=921573006-10032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I knew I had a bunch of photos from that area I took last October - and since I had insomnia last night, I dug them out and stitched them together for "black pool area.jpg".  It's not a perfect job, but maybe this might help???  I also found my photo of what I'm gathering is Skinny Geyser from last July - where it looks like that crater near Black Pool might be empty.  Slightly different angle, though.  I can crop and zoom or send a higher res version to folks interested.  They're pretty crunched down here for the list.  Just email. :)</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=921573006-10032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=921573006-10032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Janet White</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=921573006-10032008><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><A href="mailto:janet@snowmoon.us">janet@snowmoon.us</A></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Karen Low<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 04, 2008 6:35 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Geyser Observation Reports<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Geysers] Geyser Eruption at West Thumb, (03/01/2008)<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Ok, so here is the plan:  I have another south run tomorrow (Wednesday).  I will take my camera with me, and take several pictures of the area behind Black Pool.  I will show these pictures to my fellow snowcoach drivers, Will Reid, Megan Hamilton, and Chris Dunkerson (who also saw part of the eruption).  I will also try to show the pictures to James Evrard.  I'll mark on the pics which vent it was they saw erupt, and post the marked pictures to the list serve.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've heard from Chris Dunkerson that the visitor who caught the eruption, was going to take his camera over to the VC to download the pic, so that they could post it to the geyser list serve.  (Chris was extremely surprised when I told him that I only knew of one of the Visitor Center employees who was on the geyser list serve.)  So, we'll see if that actually happens.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Karen Low</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><I>Karen Low <yellowstonekaren@yahoo.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV>Today, March 1st, 2008 around 3 pm, Xanterra snowcoach guides Will Reid and Megan Hamilton saw an eruption of a geyser behind Black Pool.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Will described it as lasting several minutes, and from 6 to 10 feet in height.  Megan only caught the tail end of it.  Will mentioned it to me when I was at Big Cone (he was touring his group around clockwise, I was touring my group around counter-clockwise, and I'd stopped my group at Big Cone, to let his by.)  He said it had already finished, but the crater was still steaming.  When I got up to Black Pool, the crater that was still steaming, was the one that was closer to Abyss Pool.  We looked in <U>Geysers of Yellowstone</U>, but didn't see anything that fit it.  One of Will's guests got a picture of it, he said when it was about 7 feet in height, that he agreed to email to Denise Herman (the interp ranger at West Thumb).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I asked around when I got back to Old Faithful.  James Evrard said he saw something last winter erupt behind Black Pool, but didn't know if it was the same feature or not.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>If this feature does turn out to be unnamed, I propose it be named "Birthday Geyser", since today is the 136th anniversary of signing of the bill by President Ulysses S. 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