[Geysers] Geyser report Tuesday June 14

[TSBryan at aol.com]

In the basins for nearly 8 hours today, I actually have rather little to  
report -- another one of those times when "everything" went early.
 
The biggie -- Fan and Mortar erupted... sometime since last  Thursday-Friday. 
I am told that a marker was placed on Saturday and that it was  enlarged on 
Sunday. Evidently, though, nobody checked it on Monday -- only 3  days, mind 
you -- but gazers were around and are pretty certain that F&M did  not erupt 
before Monday nor on Monday up to early afternoon. Well, loose as that  may be, 
the marker was gone at 0830 today and at that time the geysers were far  into 
recovery. My guess, which certainly is a guess, is that the eruption was  late 
day on Monday, meaning an interval of much less than 4 days (maybe only 3  
1/2).
 
Grand overnight had an interval of 6h 40m. Today I had to leave as it  
approached 8 hours, the previous three Turban intervals having been 24, 23 1/2,  and 
24 minutes. On the last of those, Grand did not fill.
 
Daisy had a closed interval of 2h 20m, then a (presumably) double interval  
of 4h 21m.
 
Giant had two hot periods, one of 7 1/2 minutes wil a small amount of  
surging in Mastiff, and the next of only 3+ minutes.
 
Lion went 1h 21m from initial to #2.
 
Beehive was at 1815 yesterday and had not gone as of 1450 today. Bill  
Warnock is certain that he saw bubbling water in the Indicator at about 1040,  and 
I'm pretty certain I could see a bit of quietly standing water there at  about 
1140. Definitely, both the West Bubbler and the Close-to-Cone Indicator  were 
active at 0800. Meaning, obviously, that neither indicates much of  anything.
 
Plume is still dormant.
 
In the Lower Basin, Fountain has been pretty consistent at about 6 1/2  hours 
(per Dean Lorenz). Great Fountain from yesterday to today was a double  
interval of a bit less than 22 hours.
 
Commentary -- I do not presume to be able to explain why this is so, but  ... 
per the current schedule, the Ranger-Interpreters _never_ have longer than 1  
(one) hour for geyser basin rove. They are barely able, sometimes unable, to  
update prediction boards. Please keep this in mind, and try to keep accurate  
records AND PASS THEM ALONG. Also, make sure your watch is correct -- today  
somebody (I do not know who) was off by almost 2 minutes.
 
Incident -- somebody decided to kayak the Firehole today. Evidently was  
caught near Fan and Mortar.
 
General observation -- It is BUSY at Old Faithful. After the 1150 Old  
Faithful, the cafeteria line extended at least all the way across the Lodge  lobby, 
and a short while later there were _many_ people waiting for seats at the  
Lower Store. And this is only mid-June, on a Tuesday.
 
Scott Bryan
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