The Beehive Geyser erupts on a very irregular schedule. It may erupt several times in one day and then go for months without an eruption. This story is more about photo preservation than original photography. The original image was shot on Ektachrome 64 in 1979. At that time I was putting slides in plastic pages and keeping them in 3-ring binders. I later learned that a plasticizer in the vinyl plastic could cause the coupler solvent in the film to migrate to the surface. I quit buying vinyl pages, but I failed to purge all of the old sheets from my collection. When I pulled out this slide in the 1990s intending to scan it, I found many oil droplets on the slide. Some people have had success wiping the oil away and washing the film. I decided to apply editing tools. I used the spot healing tool a few hundred times and cropped the slide to avoid one group of droplets.
Castle Geyser is noted for long eruptions on an infrequent schedule.
If you get off Trail Ridge Road and take the Fall River Road (one-way westbound) up to the crest of the rocky Mountains, you will pass several cataracts and waterfalls. The Trail Ridge Road is great for distant vistas. The Fall River Road is far more intimate.
