<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><br></div><div><div role="complementary" class="y-module message-header " data-action="toggle-msg-header"><br></div><div class="tictac-att-tray-base"><div class="yui3-widget yui3-attachment-tray"><div class="yui3-attachment-tray-content"> </div></div></div> <div class="msg-body inner undoreset" role="main" style=""><div id="yiv3510459422"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt;"><div><span>My observations for this week. <br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new
york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Anemone:</span><span>
Big is continuing it's durations of between 25-25 seconds, with
intervals anywhere from 6-12 minutes with most of them falling between
8-10. I have seen promising evidence that it is connected with
Improbable due to several Big starts being preceded by only a second or
two of a larger than normal boil by Improbable. <br></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span><span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span>Little
also hasn't had any dramatic change in it's activity, it's intervals
varying from 4 to almost 20 minutes. It's duration also is all over the
place, some eruptions will be splashing 1-2 feet for 30 seconds and then
drain, while others last for upwards of 6 minutes with large explosive
bursts (for little) up to 5 feet. </span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>I
have seen concerts started by both Big and Little this week. When
Little initiates the concert it will usually fill and erupt, and around
the time it reaches overflow (almost always around the 30 second mark)
Big will suddenly rise and erupt. One trend I have noticed is that Big's
duration markedly drops when it has a concert sequence, sometimes
barely hurdling the 20 second mark. When Big starts the sequence Little
is usually full, but not showing any "Mini-Grand" characteristics,
(waves on the pool, bubbles). Little usually starts 10-15 seconds after
Big initiates the concert. <br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span>Nemo
(the hot area) continues to slowly sink inward and I do believe I can
now spot the beginning outline of a crater or vent like pit that could
be opening up. </span>There is steam seen periodically, although I
haven't tried to get any intervals on it, there has been no water seen.
Nemo presents an interesting dilemma to me. On one hand It could break
out and prove to be a 4th vent (or rather a reincarnation of the third
vent) of the Anemone system. Or it could kill Big and Little, which
would be a sad day indeed. I will continue to monitor it closely, I have
the feeling one of these days it's either going to stop breaking
through and fall silent, or it's going to open up nearly overnight. Only
time will tell. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;
font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Improbable:<span style="font-style:italic;"> </span></span><span><span>Improbable
has given me two very awesome finds this week. But I have to give
credit to Jeff Cross for pointing out the first of them. Now Improbable
has periods of no boiling, with only a quietly simmering pool for 30
seconds to a minute, thus proving that it is still technically a geyser
and not a perpetual spouter. Although I know that there are people that
would argue against this statement, I'm calling it a geyser for my
studies. <span style="font-style:italic;"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;
font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span>The second observation I had today was when I looked up during a Little Anemone eruption and was completely startled as I saw <span style="font-style:italic;">two</span>
points of boiling in Improbable Pool, it was very brief, and I did not
see it before or again today, but it made me do about 5 takes and blink
to make sure I wasn't seeing things. No, there is a second source of
boiling somewhere to the left of the pool as opposed to the right where
the boils (eruptions) we are used to seeing usually issue from. I have
not read the Transactions article on Improbable yet so I am not sure if
there were already two known vents or not, It's just I had never seen it
boil before and it got me very excited. There was no marked change or
reaction from Anemone, but if
that vent is new, depending on how new, could it explain the absence of
our dearly beloved Plume? <span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Moving along the hill...</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Mouth:</span><span>
Mouth is now filled with foamy water and it's crater has taken on a
orange hue, I have spoken with a couple
other gazers about this and the opinion seems to be divided as to
whether the crater is filled just by the runoff from Dragon and Marmot
Cave, or because it's adding it's own water to the mix. I seem to think
it's the later because Mouth has been empty for the entire early part of
the season (to my knowledge) and it only began to </span>fill within
the last two weeks. However, even if it is adding it's own water to the
mix, I still am holding off hope for eruptions as long as the runoff
from above is pouring into it, especially now that there is cynobacteria
growing in the crater. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;
font-style:normal;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"> Goggles: </span><span>The</span><span>
Goggles have continued their pattern of overflow about every ten
minutes and lasting for 2 minutes. At the end of a lion series today
several other gazers and myself were startled by a fairly strong boil in
North Goggles that made all of us lean forward and stare towards it
until it dropped again. I heard that it does that after lion series
normally, but I'm not exactly sure if we should just wave it off since
it just erupted last year. </span>But I haven't studies NG before so I wouldn't know. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">I will have more on the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Dwarfs </span><span>next week. </span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Below
Pump Geyser the new looking bubbler is still active, when Jeff Cross
took a look at it he said he hadn't seen it before, so if it is fairly
new, it could be worth keeping an eye on in case it expands, since it's
literally only 2 feet from the boardwalk, if that. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Model and Slot </span><span>Geysers
are both supposedly active. Model is erupting every few minutes, and
Jeff and I saw Slot (?) erupting on Saturday as we walked around the
hill. <br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Topsoil Spring</span><span>
has been below overflow all week, with it reaching a low point of about
8" below overflow near the middle of the week, and is now climbing back
up towards overflow, hopefully we get another episode of thumps and
another eruption within the next couple
days. </span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">In the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Bush Group</span><span>
I have only seen one vent this week and that was only about 2 or 3
times when I checked on it while waiting for Grand. The vent in question
is the largest I have observed, located at the base a small mound West
of the Economics</span> the height when it's active is maybe 2-3 feet above ground level. <br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;
font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;">I have begun travelling down basin for Riverside to keep an eye on the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Riverside Intermittent Springs<span></span></span><span><span>, hopefully I will have some conclusions for you on them next week.</span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span><span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span><span style="font-weight:bold;">Round Spring Geyser</span><span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">UNNG-RSG-2</span> beside it are both active, although <br>I
have not sat down and studied them yet. I have also received reports
that there are periodic 10+ foot eruptions from
a pool somewhere around them. I might have to sit on them this week and
verify those reports, although it is possible that it could be a
separate freak event.</span><span style="font-style:italic;"> <br></span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span><span><span>Again, if you have any comments or questions, feel free to say something. I'm always eager to learn something new. </span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:18.6667px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><br><div>Micah Kipple<br></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Geyser Gazer</div><br><br><div>Yellowstone's Clownfish</div></div></body></html>