<div dir="ltr">Geyser Report Wednesday, July 6, 2016<br><div><br></div><div>Cool and breezy today. It rained as I returned home after the 3rd Great Fountain series. On my way in this AM I encountered a driver stopped in my travel lane on a blind curve to watch a distant elk, and a 2nd driver clipping along toward me in my lane on the loop road. The group of bison was by the side of the W entrance road near the Madison Campground again this AM, but had gone elsewhere by the time I drove back. Once past Midway and Fountain, there were no delays. The West Gate seems to handling inbound traffic very well this year. I have experienced minimal delays, despite my somewhat later start times.</div><div><br></div><div>The "lincoln log" barriers along the "no parking" area northbound by Midway have been tumbled somewhat. Perhaps someone thought they were there as a courtesy--"Dead and Down" pre-cut firewood. A full scale fence remains in place around the paved pullout below Midway Bluff. </div><div><br></div><div>A ranger naturalist on Firehole Lake Dr had reported people walking out to explore the area around Botryoidal late this AM. LE was on the scene as I arrived after Grand. Since Great Fountain was not yet in overflow, I headed for Fountain, which went a bit earlier than I had hoped. It was ie when I arrived about 1050. Byron Taylor had seen it ie as early as 1045. It ended at 1111. Steve Eide reported the earlier eruption as 0630ie. Twig was ie at 1105-- It snuck in there as we were watching Fountain. </div><div><br></div><div>3 dogs in thermal areas this AM--2 at Fountain, 1 on the boardwalk at Great Fountain. 8-10 people taking the direct route/shortcut from Surprise Pool to Great Fountain. Both RV's and vehicles pulling full size travel trailers were using Firehole Lake Dr. One visitor used the Great Fountain runoff channel as a sidewalk to travel from White Dome to Great Fountain (pre-eruption). Great Fountain overflow was at 1224, the eruption @ 1346 p=8. Maureen Edgerton, Rebecca Rowland, Jim Scheirer, Leba Diamond were among those there.</div><div><br></div><div>Pink Cone was ie as I passed at 1030 en route to Fountain.</div><div><br></div><div>And then there's Grand Geyser: 0949 D8/T2C with D0 being a 38minute Turban cycle per Jim Scheirer. The eruption was lovely--steamy, but the cool breeze took care of most of that and nice sunshine on those sparkling water droplets. AND I saw a weasel running up the Rift runoff channel just as the 2nd burst was starting. I didn't know which way to look and got photographs of neither. </div><div><br></div><div>Beehive was heard by Rocco Paperiello about 1230AM. I see in Geyser Times it went again at 1440 with Beehive's Indicator Geyser reported at 1423.</div><div><br></div><div>Barbara Lasseter</div></div>