SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Authorities are investigating after a hit-and-run driver struck a fire hydrant in Mission Valley Thursday morning, causing a geyser to shoot roughly 40 feet up into the air.

Instead of chilled glasses and champagne bubbles to ring in the New Year, how about gassy geysers and frosty avalanches ... different tools that provide images and observations from the surface.

Home to Yellowstone's Grand Prismatic Spring, the Midway Geyser Basin leaves visitors in ... in with a park ranger for the best time for photos since stream and fog fluctuate in this basin.