<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:v = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.17097" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} </STYLE> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY lang=EN-US id=MailContainerBody style="PADDING-RIGHT: 10px; PADDING-LEFT: 10px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" vLink=purple link=blue leftMargin=0 topMargin=0 CanvasTabStop="true" name="Compose message area"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I know its been many years since the July 4 picnics.    We had a number of picnics and yes, the last one was over 100 people.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We have picnic pictures from:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1988- in the Ham's parking lot with the Freunds, Dunns, Hoppes, Johns, and Bob Berger.  I think that was the first one.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1989 picnic at Biscuit Basin...the group is much larger. Includes Bob Hoffman, Johns, Goldbergs, Freunds, Fritzs, Dunns, Marie Wolfe,  Tom Houghman and Ann Deutch, Tomas Vachuda, and the backs of a bunch we can't name.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1990-Spring Creek</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1991- Morning interrupted planned picnic at Ojo Caliente, Lew and I left Morning to tell Bob and Dave, and we still haven't seen Morning!.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our camera broke and we have zero pictures until 1996.</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2> But I remember (ha-trust that one).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1992- I think one was held at Great Fountain?  I remember a Great Fountain picnic and Udo's trunk full of wine!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>1993- Maybe the last picnic? The last picnic was in the Lower Ham Store and was over a hundred people.  </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob and Dave Berger cooked spaghetti the entire day before to make enough pasta and we went to West to purchase 15 loaves of bread to turn to garlic toast.  The Freunds provide much wine!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Planning a picnic around geysers is important.  But given that we need to keep active geysers and weather in mind...should we plan a July 4th picnic at the Nes Pierce picnic area to honor Sam?  It has lots of parking space, outhouses and a lack of mosquitoes that the Spring Creek area is famous for hosting. Hot dogs, beans and beer?  We have a grill and I bet lots of others do also that could bring them along.  Or in front of the Ham's store?  I was worried about too many people for in front of the Ham store.  Ideas?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Oh, if gas goes above $4.75 a gal, we won't be in the park this year.  But I'm hoping that isn't happening.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jan</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 13, 2011 11:08 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Tahoma"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #f5f5f5"> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title="mailto:geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="mailto:geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">'Geyser Observation Reports'</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Geysers] Spring Creek picnics</DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV class=WordSection1> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Lynn and others,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><o:p> <FONT face=Arial color=#000000>A</FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">I recall seeing a video of Ted reading some poetry, probably at the July 3<SUP>rd</SUP> picnic you mentioned.  I’m not sure who shot it but it might have been the Hoppe’s.  I mention this because if nobody has the written poems they could be transcribed from the video by some enterprising soul.  The video would likely also show Sam if he was there.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Sadly we missed that gathering because we came after Labor Day in 1990 when Eric was almost a year old.  Interesting to note that our kid’s milestones help to keep the years from running together.  Those July 4<SUP>th</SUP> pot-lucks started getting rather large in the early 90’s.  Didn’t we have over 100 at one of them?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #548dd4; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'">Udo Freund<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #548dd4; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calisto MT','serif'">GOSA Store<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #548dd4; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calisto MT','serif'"><A title="www.gosa.org
CTRL + Click to follow link" href="www.gosa.org">www.gosa.org</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P> <DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"> <P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Lynn Stephens<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 13, 2011 9:57 AM<BR><B>To:</B> geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Geysers] Spring Creek picnics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">In a brief post, I indicated there were at least two Spring Creek picnics involving various gazers.  I should have been more specific in my original post and provided more details to help distinguish between the various picnics.<BR> <BR>The one I originally referenced occurred in the late summer, with, as I remember, only six gazers in attendance.  While a couple of us cooked dinner, Sam spent much of the time working on one of his water flow meters.  At that time Rick Hutchinson did not have much equipment available to monitor geysers.  (The infrared on Old Faithful and the large seismograph type unit were the only two that I remember, although he must have had more because neither of those would have worked to gather the Plume data that I remember seeing posted in logbooks in the early 1990s.)  Sam had been a Volunteer since the early 1970's and, with Rick's approval, used water flow meters to monitor geysers such as Great Fountain and Grand on a routine basis, and a few others on a periodic basis.<BR> <BR>There was another gazer picnic at Spring Creek picnic area for the 4th of July 1990 gazer get-together.  <BR> <BR>I remember bringing my stove and cooking spaghetti at that picnic.  I know it was the wone in 1990 because Erin was driving at that time and she did not have her driver's licence in 1989.  Jan's post prompted me to go to the 1990 issues of The Sput to see what information, if any, was available about that picnic.  Scott printed an item:<BR> <BR>"The 4th of July Get-together, coordinated with our thanks by Lynn Stephens, was actually held on the 3rd in order to accomodate some folks who had to leave the next day.  At least 42 Friends of the Geysers gathered at the Spring creek picnic area for an evening potluck.  It was by all accounts a rousing success.  As special events, Sue Wall prepared a birthday cake for Karl Hoppe, complete with a decoration showing Beehive; and Ham's store employee Ted Olkoski read some of his geyser poetry."<BR> <BR>I don't specifically remember whether Sam was in attendance.  Perhaps some of you remember?<BR> <BR>For those of you who don't remember Ted Olkoski, he worked at the Lower Hamilton's store.  Scott published one of Ted's poems in 1989.  I located another of his poems in one of Rick's annual reports.  I have already sent Tom and Genean a "Little Bit" column, probably for the August Sput, containing some Yellowstone poetry written by gazers and Ted.  Does anyone else out there have any of Ted's poetry?  Does anyone have any information about how to contact Ted or his family?  Also, does anyone remember other details about the July 3, 1990 get together?<BR> <BR>Finally, does anyone else remember any other gazer get togethers at Spring Creek picnic area?  <BR> <BR>Thanks, and again, my apologies to Jan for not being more specific in my original post.  <BR> <BR>Lynn<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <HR id=stopSpelling align=center width="100%" SIZE=2> </SPAN></DIV> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'">From: pinkconemtgo@gmail.com<BR>To: geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<BR>Subject: Re: [Geysers] Brief Memorial for Sam -- sometime weekend of July 4<BR>Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 06:26:04 -0400<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Hmm..I know we made spaghetti and Tom and Genean made garlic rolls. Who else  cooked spaghett?  At least two of us did that. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Jan</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV> <DIV> <P class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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