<div dir="ltr">Hello and happy almost-solstice from Rita, Annie, Landis, and Cathy (me), the winter rangers at the Old Faithful Visitor Education Center. <div><br></div><div style>The interior of the park opened for the winter season on Sunday, December 15. Things have been steadily picking up here over the course of the week, but there haven't been many visitors out in the geyser basin yet. Winter is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy the geyser eruptions in peace, quiet, and solitude.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>We continue to use the same intervals for the predictable geysers as we did in late summer, with good results:</div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div style>
<b>Old Faithful</b>: 90 min. after a long; all observed eruptions so far have been longs</div><div style><b>Castle</b>: 13 hrs 30 min.; all eruptions this week have been majors</div><div style><b>Grand</b>: 7 hrs 30 min.</div>
<div style><b>Daisy</b>: 2 hrs 45 min; nice and consistent</div><div style><b>Riverside</b>: 6 hrs; we've had terrible luck seeing it (or even seeing overflow) and so haven't had predictions for it for most of the week</div>
</blockquote><div style><br></div><div style>As you may know, a likely eruption of <b>Fan and Mortar</b> was reported on Tuesday (12/17 1117ie VR). On Wednesday morning, we verified that F&M had in fact erupted. We will continue to check on F&M for signs of eruptions throughout the winter.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>Optimistically, I've been checking Giant, too. Not surprisingly, it remains dormant. We've seen nothing from Giantess or Plume, either.</div><div style><br></div><div style>We've had a few lovely midafternoon eruptions of <b>Beehive </b>this week. The indicator has allowed us to get some visitors out there to enjoy it. <b>Lion</b>, too, has been putting on a nice show, with good daytime series observed on December 15-19.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>I'll be sending updates to the listserv throughout the winter season. If there's anything in particular you'd like me to include, please let me know. I'm generally not going to give a laundry list of specific eruption times because <a href="http://geysertimes.org">geysertimes.org</a> seems to fill that need. Additionally, please feel free to contact me with any questions, comments, or observations! I'd love to hear from you ... or perhaps see some of you in person? It would be lovely if any of you could make the journey here this winter.</div>
<div><br></div><div style>Finally, we at Old Faithful would like to give a great big thank-you to Carolyn Aaronson for her sharp eyes on the webcam--it's always a real help, but especially at this time of year when there are few people around in the geyser basin.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Cathy Bell</div><div>Park Ranger</div><div>Old Faithful Visitor Education Center</div><div>Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190</div></div>
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