<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Rocco Paperiello hiked to this area a few years back. He said it was mostly gas barrens with a few perpetual acidic spouters. Neat area, but in his words not worth the hike. If anyone is interested in going for Scott's suggested hike Rocco said to stay along the creek the entire way-when he tried to go across country it was loaded with deadfall that made the hike very difficult. Be warned that "along the creek" was boggy in several places, too...<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></span></div><div><span></span> </div><div><span>MK</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="margin: 5px 0px; padding:
0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 0px; line-height: 0; font-size: 0px;" class="hr" contentEditable="false" readonly="true"></div> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "TSBryan@aol.com" <TSBryan@aol.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:43 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Geysers] Strange feature<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
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<div>For some reason -- probably has to do with being "stuck" in southern
Arizona for another three months -- I was using Google Earth to look at
places in Yellowstone. For some reason (no idea why, really) I zoomed in on the
Spruce Creek-Juniper Creek area, a few miles up Nez Perce Creek well beyond the
Morning Mist area.</div>
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<div>First, here is what Allen & Day (pp. 283-284) had to say about that
area:</div>
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<div> The southern branch of Nez Perce Creek is formed
by the junction of Spruce and Juniper Creeks, cold mountain streams which
receive no warm water till they near the meadow where they unite. Three-quarters
of a mile up Spruce Creek, the explorer comes upon an old sheet of siliceous
sinter, along the western border of which a mild type of acid activity of
limited extent still persists.</div>
<div> On the banks of Juniper Creek there is nothing of
a thermal character except a few quiet pools embedded in ancient sinter, and
along a little tributary of the creek from the south, a small number of acid
springs, characterized by meager sulphur deposits, yield not more than 0.1 sec.
ft. of warm water. --end--</div>
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<div>OK, so two Google Earth photos are attached. The first serves as a map to
the area, with the trailhead, Morning Mist/Culex, and a really odd looking
feature marked. The second photo is a close up of that strange feature, which my
wife calls "The Alien."</div>
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<div>What is it? Any explorers out there game of a 15 mile (round trip) hike?
(Won't be me!)</div>
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