Like most features in the Lower geyser basin Pink Cone sits in a cluster of other thermal features (named in this case the "Pink Cone Group" oddly enough). These groups are fairly widely separated from each other.  Several of it's immediate neighbors have the same dark pink color to their deposits caused by traces of manganeese minerals in the geyserite.  It looks a bit dark in this shot, partly because it is wet, and partly because I played with the image a bit to bring out the shape of the water column, which was hard to see against the overcast sky.  I have a much uglier spooky backlit shot of Pink Cone here.

Actually, I was waiting for Bead Geyser, which is taller and closer to the road and happens to be one of the most regular of Yellowstone's geysers, when I noticed Box Spring erupting.  Box Spring is kind of irregular and infrequent, so although it was a good way back from the road and only maybe 5 feet high, it was something I had never seen before, and I was happy.  As far as I know it was not active before the big 1959 earthquake.  Many of the geysers in the Pink Cone Group became more active then.  I never did see Bead erupt that day.

The Black Warrior Group takes it's name from nearby Steady Geyser, which is also known as Black Warrior Geyser.  More name confusion.  Steady is a large perpetual spouter, it never stops erupting, so technically it is not really a geyser.  Geysers have to rest from time to time to be geysers.  Geysers are powered by underground steam explosions and are much less common than perpetual spouters, which can erupt from plain old water pressure, and might not even be particularly hot.  There is a very large hot spring here called Firehole Lake (you can see it behind Artesia) with a boardwalk around it, and an even bigger hot pool called Hot Lake which evidently is sort of a catch basin for the water from the springs and geysers in the area.  There is (was) also a short nature trail called the Three Senses Trail that is (was) kind of neat.  It was basically designed for blind people.  You followed a rope with wooden stops on it in front of signs that had a regular printed version for sighted people, and also a braille version for non-sighted people that pointed out things to feel and smell and listen to.  Unfortunately the Park Service is not maintaining it anymore because of lack of money to keep replacing the signs that evil people keep destroying.  That is their excuse anyway.  I used to like to close my eyes and walk it, but it was too sad to see it all torn up so I didn't this time.

This area also has several other smaller geysers easily visible from the road, and is well worth checking out, especially if you are waiting for a predicted eruption of Great Fountain like I was.  Also, on the other side of the road a little farther up from the parking area are two interesting hot springs.  Surprise Spring does not erupt, but does intermittently ebb and overflow, which would technically make it a geyser with an eruption height of 0 by some definitions.  Firehole Pool is either a small geyser or perpetual spouter (it has short pauses in it's splashing, so it's a judgment call) but the really interesting thing is that you can see jets of steam enter the pool and quickly collapse.  They do look like little tongues of blue flame sort of, which is how the spring got it's name.  Too bad the camera wasn't able to catch those.  Maybe with a polarizing filter?

The hole between tuft and the pool at the lower left is Eclipse Geyser.  It is only rarely active, jets water about eight feet high, but when it is active it eclipses Tuft by making it completely dormant.  It wasn't until the 1970's that anyone realized these features were geysers.