[Geysers] Geyser report June 9 Stephens

[Lynn Stephens]

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Mary Beth, Pat and Warren Hoppe, and Kitt and the boys are due in today so 
the radio traffic will start to pick up.

It's rainy and cool today.  Great Fountain was nice and had a long eruption 
yesterday afternoon, which meant I didn't have to get out there until after 
dawn this morning.  It had another long eruption this morning, which will 
put it near 9 pm this evening.  By long eruption, I mean that both eruptions 
had 6 full, strong bursts, which have been resulting in just over 14 hour 
intervals this season.

I didn't quite pull one of Scott's drive-ups on Labial this morning, but I 
waited less than 15 minutes for Labial at 09:05, a double interval of 13h29m 
or average of 6h45m.

A Till major at 09:58 was a double interval of 20h25m, or 10h12m average.

Pink Cone was at 13:05, a quadruple interval of 79h51 minutes (I had ies on 
2 of the three intervening eruptions) or an average of 19h58minutes.

I wasn't here, but the logbook shows Beehive at 10:41 this morning.  
Yesterday morning there was a report of Beehive at 6:35.

As I was headed out this morning, there was a large steam cloud at the north 
end of the basin, so I hopped on the bike, but it was just Grotto 0457ie.  I 
did see a Giant hot period 0512ie, duration at least 4 minutes.  I didn't 
see any surging from Mastiff.

Grand was at 05:04 as I was biking down the trail--a 13-minute 2Q.

I saw my first elk calf of the season Tuesday in the meadow around White 
Pyramid.

Miscellaneous Geysers:
     Yes, Jet is having 2-3 minute intervals during Fountain's eruption.
     You all know how much I diskllike Morning's Thief so it really pains me 
to admit it, but Morning's Thief is having some impressive 25-35 foot 
eruptions.  The eruptions are quite noisy and are scouring out the basin 
around Morning's Thief, sometimes sending runoff down the channel near Twig.
     Mike Keller posted a few weeks ago that Morning had not had "isolated" 
activity except the July 4 and 5, 1991, dual eruptions with Fountain.  I've 
been meaning to post some other examples of "isolated" activity--for 
example, the 1983 "activity" consisted of one eruption on February 23 with a 
note in the logbook in Rick Hutchinson's handwriting that it was "earthquake 
induced".  The activity on May 5-6, 1991 also lasted only a few days at 
most.  Marler cites instances of apparently isolated activity in the 
Inventory.

Lynn Stephens

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