[Geysers] GIANT, Oct. 27 @ 1834

[barger]

Thank you for the report Tara.  Unfortunately for me, those at the far 
reaches of the United States learned about the latest eruption before me.  I 
arrived at Old Faithful at ~ 2020.  I parked my bike next to your lonely one 
and after a while, I headed up to the Visitor Center to write down the 
postings from that were in the Log Book.  I would find out that Giant had 
erupted very early the next morning as I noticed the swirling frost and 
droplet patterns on the boardwalk and the danger sign face planted.  Giant's 
sign was rolled approximately 1/3 of the way to the river.  See you next 
weekend.  Kitt Barger
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tara Cross" <fanandmortar at hotmail.com>
To: <geysers at wwc.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 6:47 PM
Subject: [Geysers] GIANT, Oct. 27 @ 1834


>
> The Giant Information Relay Service brings you this special report:
>
> Giant erupted today, October 27, at 1834.  Here are the details as 
> reported by Jeff Cross:
>
> There was a very strong hot period at 0615 this morning.  There was a 
> Feather restart which included huge vertical surges in Giant to over the 
> height of the cone, but Giant did not erupt.  For the rest of the day, hot 
> periods occurred every 50-90 minutes and lasted 1-3 minutes with very 
> little energy expended.  The Southwest Vents typically started before 
> Feather and Mastiff put out very little discharge.
>
> The eruption hot period progressed as follows:
>
> 1825ns Feather and the Southwest vents on
> 1825 Feather Satellite and Rust start
> 1829 Mastiff begins to overflow heavily
> 1831 Cave begins erupting to 3 feet
> 1834 Giant
>
> The hot period started slowly, gradually building in strength.  It was too 
> steamy to see how high Mastiff was surging.  When Giant started, it was 
> tinted pink by the setting sun.  Jeff reported that it was about 200 feet 
> tall.
>
> --Tara Cross
> fanandmortar at hotmail.com
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