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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><div>> Message: 2<br>> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 11:43:39 -0400 (EDT)<br>> From: TSBryan@aol.com<br>> To: geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<br>> Subject: [Geysers] Strange feature<br>> Message-ID: <422c3.7c2657d1.3ee9f12b@aol.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<br>> <br>> For some reason -- probably has to do with being "stuck" in southern <br>> Arizona for another three months -- I was using Google Earth to look at places <br>> in Yellowstone. For some reason (no idea why, really) I zoomed in on the <br>> Spruce Creek-Juniper Creek area, a few miles up Nez Perce Creek well beyond the <br>> Morning Mist area.<br>> <br>> First, here is what Allen & Day (pp. 283-284) had to say about that area:<br>> <br>> The southern branch of Nez Perce Creek is formed by the junction of <br>> Spruce and Juniper Creeks, cold mountain streams which receive no warm water <br>> till they near the meadow where they unite. Three-quarters of a mile up <br>> Spruce Creek, the explorer comes upon an old sheet of siliceous sinter, along <br>> the western border of which a mild type of acid activity of limited extent <br>> still persists.<br>> On the banks of Juniper Creek there is nothing of a thermal character <br>> except a few quiet pools embedded in ancient sinter, and along a little <br>> tributary of the creek from the south, a small number of acid springs, <br>> characterized by meager sulphur deposits, yield not more than 0.1 sec. ft. of <br>> warm water. --end--<br>> <br>> OK, so two Google Earth photos are attached. The first serves as a map to <br>> the area, with the trailhead, Morning Mist/Culex, and a really odd looking <br>> feature marked. The second photo is a close up of that strange feature, <br>> which my wife calls "The Alien."<br>> <br>> What is it? Any explorers out there game of a 15 mile (round trip) hike? <br>> (Won't be me!)<br>> <br>> Scott Bryan<br><br>I would certainly be game, Scott, since I have an unexpected abundance of free time on my hands this summer, but the attachments were scrubbed it says, so I know not of what you speak. Are they posted on the 'net somewhere? Or can I get you to send them direct to me? <br><br>--Randal H.<br></div> </div></body>
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