[Geysers] Giant again 4/30/06

[Chase Ellison]

I am writing this the day after as I got to Mammoth at 12 A.M. and  
was not awake enough to write this.  Grotto quit at 1220..  The  
marathon was 15 to 17 hours long. All thought out the day we watched  
the GIP fill. At about 2145 Matthew McLean and I left the cage to go  
to Mammoth. When we arrived in the government area we hear Dave  
Goldberg over the radio that  the post marathon hot period had  
started within 4 minutes Mastiff erupted and the platform died about  
6 minutes into the hot period. About a minute later Feather and the  
southwest vents start and mastiff erupts again. Giant 2210.
During the waning hour of sunlight mastiff had a a few fills that if  
it had gotten any more water in it both it and the gip would have  
been in over flow.  When I left the water was about 4 inches from the  
top of the gip.

Other things seen while sitting at Giant yesterday

5 Oblongs all about 4 1/2 hours apart
3 Grands from what I could tell at least two of them were 2 bursts
3 Riversides
4 Daisies
1 Beehive (actually coming from dinner)