<!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 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Friends,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">  The six-geyser sweep sounds great, and I haven't any idea if I've ever done it (living here, one gets to see those six often enough with any effort). But my good friend Denise Herman, who works as an Interpretive Ranger over at the Canyon Visitor Center, has a pretty impressive one-geyser sweep of her own. She began her Yellowstone career as a step-on tour guide for the concessioner in 1990, who would have been either TW Services, Inc., or TW Recreational Services, Inc., in those days. Anyway, that is the only year since 1988 that I was not responsible for the training of the concessioner tour guides -- I was the science teacher that spring at the US Embassy School in Moscow, in the waning days of the USSR. My old friend Paul Shea took the new guides out on their "Frolic Tour," the annual training tour around the Park. The first geyser basin they visited was Norris, and Steamboat had a major eruption while they were within a minute or two walk of it. It was the first geyser Denise ever saw erupt in her life. She has seen it erupt twice more since (she has worked for the NPS at Norris for some summers), while I am still waiting to ever see that Big Kahuna. Cheers from one of the Rabble,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Leslie Quinn</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>