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<font face="Comic Sans MS">Don't apologize for the footage. I
thought it was great! Yeah, really hard to see it from the cam the
day before, but fun to know it was there.<br>
Karen<br>
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On 2/7/2014 11:44 AM, Bell, Catherine wrote:
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<div dir="ltr">Greetings from Old Faithful!
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<div style="">After two very cold mornings (-32F at OF
yesterday, -47 at West Yellowstone), it has now warmed up to a
balmy 16F. It's snowing prettily, with a couple of inches of
lovely fluffy stuff so far. We continue under a winter
weather advisory through 5:00 am on Sunday.</div>
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<div style="">GIANTESS</div>
<div style="">The big news since I last wrote, of course, is
last week's Giantess eruption. As you know, it was spotted by
Ranger Landis Ehler on Wednesday, January 29 at 1455ie. All
of us on staff at the visitor center were able to get over to
see it that afternoon, despite a howling snowstorm that
impaired visibility even from the closest points on the Geyser
Hill boardwalk. Unfortunately, the weather and darkness drove
us inside before the initial Vault eruption.</div>
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<div style="">I had geyser predict the following morning and was
able to ski past Giantess on my return. I was lucky to arrive
at the right moment to see some nice big splashes. I'd
estimate the height as ranging from 30 feet all the way up to
100 feet on a few especially impressive bursts. I took a
short, poor-quality video that you can view at <a
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href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67WvFDQ5No">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67WvFDQ5No</a>.
None of my still pictures show much of anything, due to the
lack of contrast: white water, white steam, white snow, white
sky.</div>
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<div style="">By Friday morning, we no longer observed any
activity. Visitor reports of a few splashes in the early
morning make us suspect an approximate duration of 40 hours.
I have no information on how long the crater took to refill.</div>
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<div style="">CASTLE</div>
<div style="">Castle was erupting this morning ( Feb. 7, 0905ie
MJR) when Ranger Annie Carlson went out there on geyser
predict, so no electronic times today, which is too bad:
Castle has been up to some interesting stuff over the past few
days. Minor-major-minor-minor, at the very least. We
initially reported this as four minors in a row, but reviewing
the data makes us feel confident that the eruption of Feb. 5
at 0312 was a major after all. We have corrected our data on
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://geysertimes.org">geysertimes.org</a>.
Here's a screenshot of yesterday's Castle download:</div>
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<div style="">GRAND</div>
<div style="">We had some problems with the Grand logger that
kept us from getting electronic times for several days. The
logger has now been replaced and the new one is functioning
nicely. We're going to be shortening our prediction interval
for Grand from the current 7 hrs 30 min to 7 hours.</div>
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<div style="">LOWER GEYSER BASIN</div>
<div style="">Guides have reported Fountain times to us on 11
days since Jan. 20. These reports are of course limited to
when they happen to be passing through, so we have no closed
intervals.</div>
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<div style="">That's about all I have for now. If you have any
specific questions about what's going on in the geyser basin,
please don't hesitate to ask!</div>
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Enjoying winter,</div>
<div style="">Cathy</div>
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<div>Cathy Bell</div>
<div>Park Ranger</div>
<div>Old Faithful Visitor Education Center</div>
<div>Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190</div>
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