<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>I <font color="black" face="arial" size="2">have never known it to be dormant.  It simply depends on the time of year when it comes to the interval.  Since there are not longer log books at the trail heads and there has been difficulty leaving times at the VC it is very difficult to know when it erupts.  I leave a marker and it gets washed.  Some years in the fall it has a lot of aborted eruptions.I would think you have simply been unlucky.  <br> <br> Attached are two photos.  I have left them in fairly high resolution so you can see them. </font><font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">One shows the pre-eruptive bubbles and the second a typical 3-4 foot eruption.  Please be aware that they shall not be published without my permission and that my name must remain on them.  Inez</font></font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"> <div> <br> </div> <div style="clear:both"></div> <div> Spelling error on Goggles......spell check just loves that one.  When I refer to "<font><font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Pre-eruptive bubbles rarely last for more than 4 hours" I am talking late summer and fall.<br> <br> Yes, the overflow goes into Nez Perce </font></font></font></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="st"><em></em></span><i><span class="st"><em> </em></span></i></font><font><font><font color="black" face="arial" size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">Creek.<br> <br> --------------------------------------------<br> </font></font></font></font> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Eric Hatfield <conanvandt@yahoo.com><br> To: Geyser Observation Reports <geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu><br> Sent: Sun, Jul 24, 2011 4:40 pm<br> Subject: [Geysers] Morning Mist.<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_3_709f05c7-ebfb-4d31-8c6a-db29c179f6db"> <style type="text/css">#AOLMsgPart_3_709f05c7-ebfb-4d31-8c6a-db29c179f6db td{color: black;} #AOLMsgPart_3_709f05c7-ebfb-4d31-8c6a-db29c179f6db DIV {margin:0px;} </style> <div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"> <div>Thanks for this description.  This is the most information I've ever heard about it.  As I understand, MMG has been dormant for decades.  When did it reactivate?<br> </div> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><br> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> "<a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:Inezaustin@aol.com">Inezaustin@aol.com</a>" <<a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:Inezaustin@aol.com">Inezaustin@aol.com</a>><br> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a><br> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</span></b> <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:Inezaustin@aol.com">Inezaustin@aol.com</a><br> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Sat, July 23, 2011 4:49:01 PM<br> <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Geysers] 19, 20, and 21 July 2011 (Schwarz)<br> </font><br> <font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div>I am at the cabin in Oregon at the moment so I do not have the latest photos and info.  I have been watching this geyser for almost 50 years.</div> <div> </div> <div>Spring/early summer Morning Mist eruptions start with a full pool that has been in overflow for at least 6 hours.  It is not unusual for it to have aborted eruptions.  They happen at the beginning of the cycle and are like a giant burp that fills the pool with gold glitter and pine needles.  The pool (as always) then drains to about 8 feet and stays that way, slowly filling for about a week.</div> <div> </div> <div>That said.  It acts much like Artemesia.  The right side of the deep pool and eventually the center have large series of big bubbles (old time silver dollar) slowly rising in groups of 3-10 bubbles then small doming when thousands of small bubbles (dime size and smaller) erupt together.  The small bubbles are a prediction of eruption. Once it gets going it has three areas of eruption, always starting to the right (stand on the end of the pool 180 degrees from the run off channel facing the pool.  The majority of large eruptions come from the center. The third area is to the left under the overhang of the deep pool.  The pool rises and falls, watch the biscuits on the sides.  Not quite pulsations like the Googles. As the end of the eruption approaches this is quite noticeable like it is at Spa Geyser.</div> <div> </div> <div>Spring/early summer eruptions can last for more than a day, sometimes for three days or more.  Lots of overflow!  Pre-eruptive bubbles rarely last for more than 4 hours.  Most eruptions are in the 2-3 foot range in the spring with occasional bursts to 6-8 feet.  Summer/Fall eruptions are much shorter in time but much higher (8-10 feet), last often less than an hour and range in the 8-15 day interval cycle.  Spring/early summer are impossible to predict.  </div> <div> </div> <div>Once I am home I can refer to my notes and post photos if you want.  I have photos of the several geyser areas in that  area and in the meadows upstream of the OFL cabins I have taken.</div> <div> </div> <div>Inez</div> <div> </div> <div> <div>In a message dated 7/23/2011 4:22:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> <div>Minds interested in them all want to know -- on Morning Mist.........</div> <div> </div> <div>Were these distinct eruptive times, or some sort of "high points" in an extended eruption?</div> <div> </div> <div>Was the pool full and overflowing? If so, any idea as to how long it had been in overflow.</div> <div> </div> <div>Any other details would be nifty.... er no, I guess "Nifty" is now used as a UGB geyser. So it would be cool. Thanks</div> <div> </div> <div>Scott Bryan</div> <div> </div> <div> <div>In a message dated 7/21/2011 3:39:40 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:schwarzmb@gmail.com">schwarzmb@gmail.com</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2">19 July 2011:<br> <br>      Morning Mist  1315 (7'),  1434 (4'),  1436 (6'),  1550 (3'),  1621 (to 2')  from Dick Powell<br> </font></blockquote></div> </font><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Geysers mailing list<br> <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a><br> <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers" target="_blank">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a><br> </font></blockquote></div> </font></div> </div> </div> </div>  <div id="AOLMsgPart_4_709f05c7-ebfb-4d31-8c6a-db29c179f6db" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>_______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a> <a __removedlink__2067504283__href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers" target="_blank">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a> </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font></font>