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Yellowstone National Park:
Old Faithful
This
tour wouldn't be completely without the obligatory photo of Ed and Chris
in front of Old Faithful, the world's best known geyser and the star of
the Upper Geyser Basin.
How faithful
is Old Faithful? Its eruption intervals vary from 40 to 126 minutes, and
it throws its water from 90 to 184 feet into the air for a period from 1˝
to 5 minutes. Rangers make careful records of each eruption and, using
those numbers, can predict the next eruption within 10 minutes.
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