[Geysers] Geyser reports April 30 and May 1

[Timothy A. Holmes (W8TAH)]

Scott:

Just wanted to publicly thank you for all the hard work on Geyser 
Education that you do.  I very very much enjoy reading your reports here 
on the list, it makes yellowstone seem a little closer than the 2500 
miles that it actually is.  As far as your books, I hope to purchase 
your new one once it comes out, and I have read and reread my copy of 
"The Geysers of Yellowstone" til the pages are literally falling out, I 
cant wait for the revised version to come out.

Once again

Thanks Again.

TIM


TSBryan at aol.com wrote:

> I didn't write yesterday (4/30) because I had rather little to report. 
> I did get our first reasonably closed interval on Fountain, from 
> 0727ns (d>26 min) to 1151 (d=25 min), a pleasing interval of about 4h 
> 24m. "Old Cone Geyser" was active at the time of the 1151 Fountain.
>  
> Separately 40 minutes apart, Jim Holstein and I saw (from the road) 
> Great Fountain in eruption.
>  
> Beehive had an interval of 19h 35m. Grand had an interval of 9h 17m. 
> Aurum provided two intervals, 3h 30m and 3h 05m. Tara Cross gave up on 
> the next interval, though.
>  
> Little Brother is active on a pattern very different from what I've 
> seen in the past. Intervals are on the order of 20 to 40 seconds 
> (only). Timing 13 eruptions, I had durations ranging from (all 
> approximately) 2 to 6 seconds (only). Some jets nevertheless get up to 
> 8 or 10 feet... At least one of the vents within North Sister is 
> active, but I don't know which one.
>  
> Today (5/01) I was only in the basins for about 4 hours -- back home 
> to work on the book.
>  
> Grand at 0828 was a -1C. Giant had an excellent hot period starting at 
> 0850. The duration wasn't the longest, at 8m 15s, but for a time 
> Mastiff was easily 4 feet high, India was fully covered within 2 
> minutes of the start, and Turtle got up to about 1 foot. However, the 
> whole thing ended exceedingly abruptly, like a switch had been thrown.
>  
> Whatever was bugging Fountain last week seems gone. I got two in 
> eruption Fountain times today, and the news is again good. It was 0806 
> ie, then 1140ie (end at 1148), an interval of only about 3 1/2 hours.
>  
> Silex has not erupted since last Tuesday.
>  
> Scott Bryan
>  
> P.S. The book is my little one, "Geysers: What They Are and How They 
> Work." The copy edited manuscript is in hand and I need to get it and 
> my comments in the mail back to Missoula tomorrow. As soon as the 
> editor has it, she'll get all modifications into the file and send it 
> off to the designer and composer. The plan is for it to go to press 
> (printer in Hong Kong) by about June 1 (maybe before). I don't know 
> when it will be available -- Mountain Press is listing it as a fall 
> release. Size 8 3/8 X 9 inches, 64 pages, full-color with about 76 
> photos. Preliminary price, $12.
>
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