Lone Star Geyser

Lone Star Geyser hike

Labor Day Weekend 2008.
30 August, 2008.

This is a great hike. Short, about 5 miles round trip. No real vertical to deal with. It is paved quite a ways. There is some little creek alone the trail for quite a ways. No idea what the name is, but I think this is what turns into the Kepler Cascades at that trailhead.

We saw few animals. Though there was a lot of scat on the trail - right in the middle of the paved trail - that looked like either Otis from Mayberry had been there a few days before, or my guess a black bear. Halfpenny's 'Tracks and Scat's' book has pictures, for the case of black bear scat. I did not have the book. But, I seem to remember it looks much like what you would expect Otis to produce.

We got to the Lone Star Geyser just before it erupted. A great stroke of luck. The forecast for this geyser was something like 3-4 hours between eruptions.