<br> Sounds like Lactose Pool. Lactose's eruptions are a kind of lazy, leisurely series of sharply pointed bursts, with a distinct greyish (or brownish?) cast, if you're close enough to tell color. It was active on and off in the '90s. I'm not sure about the last 10 years.<br>
<br>David Schwarz<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Randal H <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chasin_twisters@hotmail.com">chasin_twisters@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Okay, longtime lurker, first-time poster, yadda yadda yadda...be gentle with me :)<br><br>I was in the Upper Geyser Basin on Sunday (May 16) and was on Geyser Hill near the Lion complex as it had given a few 2-4 foot splashes and I was hoping that perhaps an eruption was near (it wasn't, and as best I know, never did, during my time there). <br>
<br>Around 12:50 p.m., I decided to give up the wait and attempt to catch up to my wife who was down basin, but first I wanted to go peek in on Depression one last time. As I made my way down (probably 1/3 of the way from Lion to Depression) I noticed, looking in the gap between the Lower Ham store and the service station, behind said buildings, the tail end of a burst (i.e.-I have no clue what, if anything, I missed before my attention was drawn) that appeared to reach about tree-top level (so I'll guesstimate 15-25 feet), there was a second burst roughly 1/2 to 2/3 the height of the first observed one, then nothing more. From the vantage point I had, the activity was just to the left of the left edge of the service station. I have no idea depth-wise where the burst may have originated from with regard to "closer to the station" vs. "closer to the tree-line behind"<br>
<br>I've made numerous trips to the UGB, spending most of my Thursday, Saturday and Sundays in the park, usually two or three of which are largely in the geyser basins. I can't recall ever seeing anything erupting from that location, be it last summer or during my previous years in the Yellowstone area. While I own various incarnations of Geysers of Yellowstone, I'm having a hard time getting my bearings on the maps and descriptions for that area. None of the little numbered dots that look "in the area" seem to parallel, even roughly, what I saw. <br>
<br>So, I'm turning to the masses...any clue what it may have been? Thanks in advance for helping put my curiosity to rest.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--Randal<br> </font><div class="hm"><br><hr>Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. <a href="http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1" target="_blank">Learn more.</a></div>
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