DCA/Grizzly Question

2 yrs ago we seemed to see the geyser at the end stay up long enough to
drench the people as they floated by. This year we watched as the
geyser started up then went off just as the tube got near it. but on
our last trip the geyser got us all.


any idea if it is timed to go off so riders don't get drenched or is it
totally random. Seems Disney does not go for really soaking riders on
its water rides. It takes away a lot of the fun
if you know its gonna turn off instead of the possibility of getting
wet.

seems more often than not you don't get wet.

anyone confirm/deny if the geysers are programmed to be random or turn
off on purpose...

Craig

i think that it's set so that it only drenches college co-eds who are
wearing white shirts.



<crw59@> wrote in message
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> 2 yrs ago we seemed to see the geyser at the end stay up long enough to
> drench the people as they floated by. This year we watched as the
> geyser started up then went off just as the tube got near it. but on
> our last trip the geyser got us all.
>
>
> any idea if it is timed to go off so riders don't get drenched or is it
> totally random. Seems Disney does not go for really soaking riders on
> its water rides. It takes away a lot of the fun
> if you know its gonna turn off instead of the possibility of getting
> wet.
>
> seems more often than not you don't get wet.
>
> anyone confirm/deny if the geysers are programmed to be random or turn
> off on purpose...
>
> Craig
>

> >
> >any idea if it is timed to go off so riders don't get drenched or is it
> >totally random.
>
> A friend of mine speculated that it's adjusted according to the
> weather, so as not to drench people on colder days. But I don't
> know whether that's true or not.

that must not be true because we were there 2 wks ago. Anaheim had
miserable humidity and it was in the high 80's. We all wanted the
geyser to get us every time. Had to wait 5 days to get really wet.

Craig

Don't know about the geysers, but if you want to get wet, be the heaviest
person in the boat. I weigh in around 350 lbs., and when we went down the
falls, the tube rotated around so I was facing uphill, and the water came
right over on me. I was soaked EVERYWHERE, but the rest of the boat was
mostly dry.

Don

<crw59@> wrote in message
news:1152655614.982681.255410@b28g2000cwb. o...
>2 yrs ago we seemed to see the geyser at the end stay up long enough to
> drench the people as they floated by. This year we watched as the
> geyser started up then went off just as the tube got near it. but on
> our last trip the geyser got us all.
>
>
> any idea if it is timed to go off so riders don't get drenched or is it
> totally random. Seems Disney does not go for really soaking riders on
> its water rides. It takes away a lot of the fun
> if you know its gonna turn off instead of the possibility of getting
> wet.
>
> seems more often than not you don't get wet.
>
> anyone confirm/deny if the geysers are programmed to be random or turn
> off on purpose...
>
> Craig
>