<div>Hello all,</div> <div> </div> <div>The pool remodeling has been going on for some years now as Black Diamond has been intermittently active. I have pictures (on a currently dead computer, gotta remember to back up my picture files more often) from this spring and Wall Pool, Black Opal, and Black Diamond were just one big pool then. There was a wall of dirt almost to the surface of the pool level between Black Diamond and Black Opal but they appeared to be at the same water level. Back when Hank Hessler and the Geology group caught the Black Diamond eruption Black Opal Pool was still a few centimeters below the level of the pool on Black Diamond. My winter "when I get time" job is to take the computer in, get the pictures and try to set up a pictorial time line of the changes around Black Diamond. That and cure my chronic procrastination infection. </div> <div> </div> <div>Stephen Eide<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:38 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:billwarnock@wyellowstone.com">billwarnock@wyellowstone.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> <div>Yesterday at 1645 a visitor reported that on the way to Sapphire Pool in Biscuit Basin there was an explosion of water and rocks in the Wall Pool area. Said it was over 60 feet high an 30 feet wide. Visitor reported it today at the Mammoth visitor center, which reported to the OFVC this afternoon. Hank Heasler has been notified by OFVC. While I was waiting at Fan and Mortar today, a photographer passed by saying he'd just been at Biscuit, and the wall between Wall and Black Diamond was gone. He had photoed them last year. I went over around 4:30 pm and was astounded to see that the barriers between Wall and Black Diamond, and between Wall and Black Opal had all disappeared. There was only one huge pond, larger than before, of murky gray water, with ejecta mainly towards the river. There is some on the boardwalk as well. There were two places in Wall area with intermitent boiling. I took several pictures which I've forwarded to Tara Cross for processing, so they can be transmitted. Sapphire Pool looks unchanged, with no murkiness, and I timed two 10-minute intervals on Jewel Geyser, which also looked normal. I had passed Biscuit yesterday at 1615 on the way home and noted there were no cars on the parking lot. I almost stopped. Darn! Will go back tomorrow.</div> <div> </div> <div>No F&M as of 1530 today. Other times:</div> <div> </div> <div>Grand 0007E 0930ie VR</div> <div>Daisy 1030ie 1330</div> <div>Great Fountain 1108 p=8</div> <div>Plume 1108 1333 1440</div> <div>Grotto Fountain 1144ie</div> <div>Grotto 1150</div> <div>Depression 1332</div> <div>Riverside 0847 1459</div> <div>Castle 0228E minor 1558 major</div> <div> </div> <div>Bill Warnock</div> <div> </div></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Geysers mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers" target="_blank">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a><br> </blockquote></div><br>