Unusual Activity on Geyser Hill (part 3) Now that the Summer Season for 2018 in Yellowstone is officially over today, it’s time to celebrate the beginning of the Field Journal season. It’s time to get all those observations from the summer more formally put into the...
Unusual Activity on Geyser Hill (Part 2) I recently wrote about my observations of the Geyser Hill area before the September 2018 energy surge. It’s taken a bit to get the observations and photos together to make a better comparison. I’ve also spent time processing...
Unusual Activity on Geyser Hill (Part 1) It’s often in the fall that we see some interesting changes happen in the geyser basins. This September saw a rather large change on Geyser Hill (near Old Faithful) that’s resulted in some unprecedented behavior (as far as...
Observations of Marmot Cave Geyser | Aug 2018 On days in Yellowstone, I often will pick a thermal feature to sit by and observe for a short time. It helps to have a question to answer, and when I learned that Marmot Cave Geyser was seen in eruption on 7 Aug 2018, I...
New thermal feature Near Old Faithful I hesitated in publishing this post simply because of all the drama that often surrounds any change seen in Yellowstone. Now that people better understand that Yellowstone actually is a volcano, the news of a new thermal feature...
West Thumb Geyser Basin Update Mid May 2018 Change is normal in Yellowstone and there have been changes over at West Thumb Geyser Basin. I got a chance to visit earlier this month on the 15th to see what might be happening. An early report on Facebook showed photos of...
