<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 9.00.8112.16447"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7><FONT id=role_document color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial> <DIV>Gordon only saw a dozen or so people swimming there? More than once there were easily two dozen vehicles along that area with correspondingly 40-50-60 people in the water. I saw that more than once, and one time the resulting traffic back-up was worse than in any animal jam I encountered this year.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But "How is closing the largest and safest place to swim... good safety policy." Hey, look around at all that's happening in the park -- it's the NPS. I believe that the Peter Principle fully applies to the existing NPS hierarchy. Many sit on their duffs in Mammoth and have no real idea as to what is actually going on out in the Park. (Unfortunately, this does not apply only to Yellowstone. Really, it increasingly is the modern NPS.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sorry, kinda off geyser topic but responding to a list item.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/16/2012 6:41:40 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, taigabridge@hotmail.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Saturday there were cars in the first pullout north of Firehole Canyon Drive and a dozen people were in the water. The bend right above Firehole Cascade, where the road used to flood in high-water years before it was rebuilt in the 90s. I suppose the water gets shallow enough that any non-toddler could regain his footing before being swept over the top... but really, swimming within sight of the top of a waterfall?? How is closing the largest and safest place to swim, and pushing people into the marginal locations, a good safety policy?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>