<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Didn't you know everyone's off at the FB page making memes? Anyway, despite the fact that we were traveling sans Zayne, we got in insanely late last night (Sunday), slept insanely late, got our act together insanely late, etc. Checked the VC and thought we might still be in the Fountain-or-Morning window and headed down. Turned out had missed Fountain by not too much but parked our carcasses just to see what we could see. Took notes but realized it was likely we would need help identifying what we saw. We know the basic landmarks but wonder if we needed an earlier edition of the book---I thought earlier ones had a little more extensive sections on both K'scope and Sprinkler. We got lucky in that the landmarks I do know were being cooperative. Deep Blue was full with one small vent on the north edge playing as a pretty perpetual spouter, and what I believe is "Firehose" was active intermittently. Our good luck happened when, with binocs, I was trying to decide if what I was seeing was a sinter edge of some sort or an empty pool set at a good angle for the overlook. Mother Nature solved my problem, and ping! ping! ping! we got steam, we got water, and boy did we get Kaleidoscope! Huge and gorgeous, also a little longer than I'm used to (ie, if I blinked, I didn't miss it). It drained, emptied, and then about 20 minutes apart, we got the steam, the fill, and the eruption. The only odd one was the last, where the pool filled and stayed up but only had a small perpetual spouter. 1st weirdness question: as Kaleidoscope sat there with its pool doing no more than sloshing a bit, a perfectly round hole behind and to its left from our perspective, began to fill and overflow (I assumed this was the Drain. Immediately to the left of this feature and rear left of Kaleidoscope there was another fairly quiet pool that I normally would have though was 3-Vent. The round pool I thought might be Drain drained into Kaleidoscope and "other" as well as toward my next odd feature. No eruptive action by the time I left. 2nd weirdness question: If the thing I thought might have been 3-Vent with no activity, my other candidate was the next pool to the left, because it had a respectably sized slender jet of water (guess a meter or so in height) that was just intermittent enough that you couldn't quite call it a perpetual spouter, and it arose from just about dead center of the pool. Last weirdness in this group. I thought we were going to see the touted "twins" we've seen in photos. If we saw what was part of these two geysers, those shots were taken at a very different angle than I could manage. Broad guess is the activity we saw was intermittent because we had been enjoying everything else before we even saw there was something to see. At first, we thought we might be seeing a new or reactivated vent round the left edge of Deep Blue. My first impression, in fact, was that DB had overflowed every which way, and this initiated this rather nice cone-type eruption as a side vent of DB. But, no, the longer we watched the more clear it became that this new geyser was erupting from the right-hand side of its own pool, and that it very clearly *had* its own pool. It appeared to be a cone-type geyser, played for about a minute every 3-7. So (this is one thing late afternoon sun makes easy) instead of the triad of DB, Kaleidoscope (or Drain) and 3-Vent as the pools I always use to navigate, we had something like this (discounting the smaller players off to the left:                                                                               Drain? Perfectly round,                                                                            empty till K. was down to a                                                                                      sloshing pool          Pool playing in series                                                                                        0000                 at far right of full crater                0000000                           0000000                  000                     0000000   00000000000000000000                       Pool that                           Mainly still                           00000                           Deep Blue & Co <div class="moz-signature">            behaved like                       pool where I look              Kaleidoscope                3-Vent (?)                            for 3-Vent                as noted above                  quiet while observed                                    Area under abservation from 1730 till sunset and mosquitoes drove us off. Above, I was trying to separate the pools and their descriptors for clarify, but the pools really all but touched by the time "Drain" was overflowing in all directions. In Sprinkler, have three we need help with. We think we may have ID'd East and West Sprinkler as described by Bryan. What we were seeing was another two round pools touching as if they were a figure 8. The right/back one, angled slightly away from us, was the one that was active: a fountain, nice (10-12') height, active every 8-12 minutes. At one point, we though we had an early eruption and, using the binocs,saw that this was actually a cone geyser arising from the same sinter formation that formed the pools. We split on a third geyser arising from the sinter at the front edge of the eruptive pool---Paul mentioned it looked like Grotto Foutain but thought this was more of a fountain play; I felt it looked like a cone, although, yes, one like GF. For the sake of interest, when the mosquitoes finally did us in, Morning was quite full with convection over the vents and a general wave harmonic pattern to its surfacd. Fountain was steaming vigorously in all the right places (over the vent and where you knew the water had to travel to get out of the channel, but it was dark enough and steamy enough that we could not identify water. Going to be anxious to hear what happens overnight. And, please, any observations on what exactly we saw would be welcome. I've never seen that many pools lined up in a row at DB and would really like to nail what we saw in Sprinkler. I'm sure by now Scott is sorry he asked! Karen <img src="cid:part1.03080002.07060902@xmission.com" border="0"></div> On 6/30/2013 9:16 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com">TSBryan@aol.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:1264d2.5ce84bd5.3f024e99@aol.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="MSHTML 10.00.9200.16618"> <div>ummmm.... am I the only one wondering what happened to daily posts. Times on a list are one thing, while a bit of commentary tieing things together is much more.</div> <div> </div> <div>Scott Bryan</div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> <pre wrap="">_______________________________________________ Geysers mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu">Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers">https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers</a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>