[Geysers] GIANT, October 8 @ 1341

[Tara Cross]

In when I was in the park this summer, I joked that I was running the Giant Hotline via my cell phone as gazers outside the park were calling me to find out what's going on.  Now I have become the Giant Information Relay Service.  This info once again from Jeff Cross (who, if you're wondering, has now seen 6 eruptions in a row):

Jeff wasn't really expecting Giant today since it had been less than 4 1/2 days, but went down to check Grotto, and observed the following sequence of events:

1242ie Grotto Fountain
1246 Grotto
1250 Marathon Pool very high, Spa about 2 feet down and quiet
1317 back vent of Mastiff had a sustained surge to 3 feet that lasted 15-20 seconds (Jeff noted that this was not the first time he'd seen that this fall)
1326 Rocket major (only 40 minutes after Grotto)

1328 Bijou pause
1329 Giant hot period.  Southwest Vents started first, followed by a very weak feather.
1332 Rust and Feather Satellite started, and Mastiff began to have heavier overflow and boiling.
1325 Cave bubbling to 3-6 inches, Mastiff surging to 3 feet, and Bijou came on.
1337 Mastiff dropped out of sight, and simultaneously Bijou started roaring.  Then all vents quit except for the Southwest Vents.
1338 Less than a minute after the end of Feather, it restarted along with every other hole in front of Giant.
About 30 seconds later, Giant started to have big surges and bursting in its cone.  This progressed over about 2 minutes, then
1341 GIANT, max height 180 feet or so.  Duration 91 minutes.

Grotto quit sometime during the hot period.

This is the second consecutive eruption from a Feather restart and the third consecutive "Normal Function" eruption.  As a matter of (probably) meaningless trivia, Giant's eruptions have come in groups of 3 Normal, then 3 Mastiff, and so on starting with the June 17 eruption (that's 15 eruptions).

--Tara Cross
fanandmortar at hotmail.com
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