[Geysers] Geyser report April 29

[TSBryan at aol.com]

I am quite certain that I will not go into the park tomorrow. Really must  do 
things here, and the weather forecast is horrible.
 
First a couple of items from yesterday. Grand was 1554 (T3Q). And the  Grotto 
marathon ended at about 1745.
 
Today early we found that the marathon recovery had already taken place; so  
far as we know, nobody saw it.
 
Giant hot periods at 0828 (d=3m14s; Feather and Satellite + SW Vents), 0938  
(d=3m19s; Feather and SW only but followed by a long spell of intriguingly  
powerful jetting in Giant and protracted bubbling in Feather and Slit), and 1047 
 (d=2m30s; Feather and SW, weak). Thereafter were rather poor bathtubs at 
1204  and about 1316. By that time, Grotto had been in eruption for almost 4 
hours and  we all gave up. And Grotto was still on at 1350.
 
[[[ And so now as I was about to send this (without this paragraph), we  find 
that Giant erupted about 1 hour after I left the basin. I'm guessing the  
person who called the start was Tom Carberry. This actually doesn't surprise me  
a whole lot. At least now we have a handle on the thing. But why is there  
no-zero steam cloud on the Webcam at 1600? Windy, yes, but...]]]
 
Plume intervals of 47 and 44 minutes, followed by 91 for two.
 
Steve Eide caught Beehive's Indicator at 0637ie and Beehive at 0641.  That's 
a closed interval of 16h 23m. By the way, yesterday's Beehive was indeed  a 
No-Indicator eruption (unless the Indicator started only seconds before  
Beehive).
 
Nope, no Depression reported today. No Aurum either.
 
A concluding Lion minor took place at 0719.
 
Castle at 0758, major.
 
Uncertain 0805.
 
Grand was 0652ie. Through much of the day, West Triplet was either  
overflowing lightly or just before overflow until it sort of erupted its  yellow-brown 
water at about 1335.
 
Oblong was at 0931. It was, I think, the most powerful Oblong I've ever  
seen, repeatedly jetting fr above the background ridgeline, and it had a  duration 
of (yes) a touch longer than 9 (nine) minutes.
 
Daisy, in spite of strong southerly wind, 0924, 1130, and 1330.
 
Riverside 1201. The start of overflow was seen, lasted 92 minutes to the  
eruption.
 
F&M looked pretty cruddy.
 
Others saw Artemisia at 0727ie.
 
I saw Fountain at 0719ie.
 
As I was getting ready to depart, I saw a substantial steam cloud rising  
from the area of Dilapidated, at 1358.
 
Scott Bryan



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