The Park?s Geyser Guy takes us on a tour. Read the full description.
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More than two million people each year visit Yellowstone; it's America's first and most famous national park. The main attraction are the geysers and hot springs. There are 120+ of these thermal features, Old Faithful being the most popular. For 26 years, Rick Hutchinson was known simply as 'the geyser guy' at Yellowstone. He was a geologist, a naturalist, and the world's foremost authority on geysers. He died in 1997, in an avalance while skiing t check some backcoutry geysers. In 1996 producer Barrett Golding went on a tour with Rick Hutchinson through Yellowstone's geyser basins.
Broadcast History
Broadcast on NPR Day to Day 2005.
Timing and Cues
In: 40 seconds geyser ambience
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Susanna Bolle
Posted on May 06, 2009 at 12:15 PM | Permalink
The Geyser Guy
Would be worth listening to just for the burbling ambience of the geysers, but Hutchinson, the geyser guy, also provides a fascinating, if brief, overview of geysers. Wish it could have been longer....