<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> Here's what Rick wrote in his 1973 report about the activity of Morning Geyser:   Morning Geyser             After rejuvenating on May 24th from more than 13 years of inactivity Morning Geyser performed spectacular fountain eruptions for seven weeks before slipping back into dormancy.  The two eruptions observed on Mary 24th and Dr. John Rinehart and Sub District Naturalist Robert Woody were the first known since September, 1959.  In June a total of 14 more were logged but it is quite certain that many more were missed.  Only 3 intervals were timed and averaged out to approximately 8 hours 6 minutes.  Also only 3 durations were able to be timed out at 10, 11, and 16 minutes in June and one at 9 minutes in July.  During the latter part of July when dormancy returned, both Morning and Fountain Geysers almost completely refilled with relatively quiet clear water and occasional small overflow down the terrace to the north.  A cooling of the two pools was soon noted by a return of darker algae in the bottom of Fountain.             Most of Morning’s eruptions were preceded, sometimes for several hours, by heavy runoff into Fountain and intemittant [sic] splashing over the vent in the pool from ½ up to 4 feet.  The style of play was reminiscent of the photographs of Excelcior [sic] and Sapphire Geyser with their massive fountain upheavals.  Estimated heights ranged from 50 feet on up to well in excess of 120 feet.  Thirteen years of inactivity produced alot [sic] of weathered sinter and trash from thoughtless visitors but the major eruptions washed much of it away.  I had the good fortune to observe the start of one powerful display from more than a quarter of a mile away in the direction of Kaleidoscope Geyser.  After running the whole distance to Morning Geyser, a point near it was reached while it was still playing.  Standing at around 75 feet from the edge of the geyser’s pool I found it impossible to go any closer as I was then standing in uncomfortably hot water up to my ankles that was a part of a virtual flood.  Such runoff flowing to the north eroded down as much as 3 to 4 inches in the sinter terraces.             Morning’s behavior this summer was completely different from what was recorded in its pre 1959 quake state.  It did not show a preference for erupting in the morning hours, there were no chain reaction sequences with Fountain, Clepsydra, or Spasm Geysers; its durations were no where near 45-60 minutes, and preliminary splashing warned of a possible eruption while before, only a brief rise in water level and rate of overflow was indicative. Lynn Stephens <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p> </div></body> </html>