{"id":305,"date":"2018-05-14T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/14\/2000-great-fountain-backcountry-geyser\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:45:21","slug":"2000-great-fountain-backcountry-geyser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/14\/2000-great-fountain-backcountry-geyser\/","title":{"rendered":"2000 Great Fountain, Backcountry Geyser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 2000 June 30, the NPS closed the Firehole Lake Drive because a large hole had developed on one of those wooden culverts south of Firehole Lake. That was a Friday, and with the upcoming holiday weekend, it meant that the road crews wouldn't be available to fix the problem until at least Jul 05.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I heard about the problem late that day, from some geyser gazers who were incensed that they wouldn't be able to get to Great Fountain for days. That night I realized that the situation was exactly opposite. The Firehole Lake Drive was now a backcountry area with a paved bike path through it. At dawn, well before it was time to head back out to Grand, I loaded up my bike and drove to the junction with the Loop road, and parked at the closed gate. No other vehicle was there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It turned out it wasn't even close to time for an eruption of Great Fountain, but I had the area to myself. My next visit was on Jul 02. By then, a few people had figured the situation out, but as this video shows, it wasn't many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/268609169?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Great Fountain, Backcountry Geyser, 2000 Jul 02. Video by Paul Strasser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I made one more visit on Jul 04, and the road was repaired and reopened the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2000 June 30, the NPS closed the Firehole Lake Drive because a large hole had developed on one of those wooden culverts south of Firehole Lake. That was a Friday, and with the upcoming holiday weekend, it meant that the road crews wouldn't be available to fix the problem until at least Jul 05. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/14\/2000-great-fountain-backcountry-geyser\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"2000 Great Fountain, Backcountry Geyser\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geysers.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}