<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18783"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#c0c0c0> <DIV> <DIV> July 2009 <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Shoshone</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>Geyser</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> Report<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Clark Murray<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Trailside Geyser:    Active<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Little Giant’s side vents have enlarged and were having small wave like eruptions, while a noisy vent in the side of Little Giant steams and overflows, but Little Giant itself is completed placid.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Double Geyser has become a perpetual spouter of only a foot or two with constant heavy overflow down it’s main runoff channel,  All surrounding areas are bone dry;  indicating no eruptions, as far as I can tell.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> “Trio Geyser” was heard gurgling as I left the basin, but Meander and Locomotive showed no signs of life.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Soap Kettle is dormant with low water levels and dry catch basins<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Gourd and Shield were active, but not frequently so.<o:p></o:p> Therefore, UNNG-Shoshone-11 was having impressive doming, heavy overflows, nice thumping, and bubble showers.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Minute Man Geyser active<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Five Crater Hot spring:  active<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Orion Group:  Sadly no change here, the water levels are as bad as ever. Although Union Geyser is making a nice base drum-like pounding sound. Steam was seen escaping from cracks at the base of the South cone, sad to see the cones deteriorating. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Based on the thick bacteria mat, Taurus Spring has not had an eruption in a long time.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> South Group:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>  “Diverted Geyser” was trying to erupt, but could not. The 1994 blowout was having nice three foot eruptions, but “Rototiller Geyser” looked dormant.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> North Group:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Bronze Geyser appears from the wash zone, and the deep runoff channels to still be having large eruptions; it looks like a lot of water is ejected.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Lion Geyser is dormant with standing water,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> “Old Lion” was lightly splashing<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> “Snail” & Fissure were not seen erupting, but are probably active.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> “Hydra” looked like it might be active, although no eruption was seen.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Velvet Spring is once again dormant, with occasional light boiling in the east/bottom vent only.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Bead Geyser: the platform was dry, so I was surprised by a single eruption in the afternoon, it quickly refilled, but no more eruptions were seen that day.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Knobby Geyser: is in constant overflow. Water is flowing into the collapsed area just above Knobby. A single, but long major was the only eruption seen all day. With all that overflow: “Slosh Geyser” was dormant”.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> P28, the double vents that took over the overflow function of Mangled Crater Spring are having nice small eruptions, and was even seen erupting when Mangled Crater was quiet.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Frill Spring:  had what looked like an aborted eruption. It had heavy sustained overflow with surge after surge for thirty minutes!  It then surprisingly just drained completely; Refill was slow over the course of the day, as if it had a full eruptive series. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> In the Lone Star Camp Group; <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Clamshell Geyser was active, but not much of anything else.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Clark Murray<o:p></o:p></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>