<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> A question about access at Norris.  With Incline and Graceful (I thought Graceful's vent blew apart in the 80s) active we may make a trip to that blessed basin while in the park.  I know they re-routed the boardwalks in the back basin, but what about porcelain??  You used to go down the steps through the museum, and I would have a hard time with those.  Can you get to the Porcelain Terrace overlook without going on stairs?<o:p></o:p>                     <o:p></o:p> Paul Strasser<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> -----Original Message----- From: geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu [mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Lasseter Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 5:13 PM To: <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Geyser Observation Reports</st1:PersonName> Subject: [Geysers] Geyser Report Sunday, July 15, 2012 <o:p> </o:p> I found myself unexpectedly at Norris today.  What was to be a hike<o:p></o:p> never left <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Norris</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Geyser</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, where there was lots of intersting<o:p></o:p> activity.  The UGB data reported here is compliments of Kitt Barger.<o:p></o:p> Norris data collected by MA Bellingham, Rocco Paperiello, Clark<o:p></o:p> Murray, and myself.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Beehive: 0651 (indicator @ 0636)<o:p></o:p> Grand: 0727 T2Q<o:p></o:p> West Triplet: 0749ie<o:p></o:p> Plume: 0713<o:p></o:p> Oblong: 0720ns<o:p></o:p> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City>: 1029<o:p></o:p> Fountain: 1036ie<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Whirligig: 1024  d=approx 3 minutes  great sound effects!<o:p></o:p> Constant: I saw several, but did not intend to linger there and was<o:p></o:p> not recording times<o:p></o:p> Incline Geyser ie: (this is what grabbed our attention big time at<o:p></o:p> about 0800)  Rocco dashed over to verify, then we both relocated from<o:p></o:p> Constant to Incline, hoping for a repeat.<o:p></o:p> Graceful: 1st approx 0800-0820, 2nd 1115<o:p></o:p> Collapsed Cave geyser: approx 40foot angled eruption during the 2nd Graceful<o:p></o:p> Vixen: minors at 1109 (40 sec, 6-8ft), 1158 (40sec, 8ft), 1249 (75sec,<o:p></o:p> 13-14ft), 1341 (35sec, 8-10ft)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> There was a black wolf feeding on an elk carcass at the base of the<o:p></o:p> Chocolate pots on my way home.   For 2 days in a row now I have seen a<o:p></o:p> bald eagle in the dead tree on the S side of the W entrance rd approx<o:p></o:p> 1 mile W of the old nest across from a convenient pullout.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Tomorrow I will be out of the basin.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Barbara Lasseter<o:p></o:p> _______________________________________________<o:p></o:p> Geysers mailing list<o:p></o:p> Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<o:p></o:p> https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>