[Geysers] More Giant report August 26

[TSBryan at aol.com]

OK, so the news about Giant has already been posted but here's a bit more. I 
was standing in front of the Lower Store, out by the road, when I saw the 
steam cloud go up. At first I thought Grand but almost instantly realized the 
angle was wrong. The time WAS 0704 -- there was a strong wind, so it might have 
taken a bit of time before the steam was visible on the Webcam. On my bike, I 
was in direct sight on the paved trail by 0710 and, by running, in the cage at 
0712.
 
Brian Roskuski was returning from F&M and was somewhere near Grotto (a few 
hours into marathon, by the way) when his thought was: "That's a big Bijou." 
Then he realized and made the radio call.
 
Even with the wind, I guess the height on my arrival at 150 feet. But here 
is, I think, a highly important point: at no time did I or Brian (or any others 
later) see anything (ANYthing) other than gentle steam from Bijou or Catfish 
during the eruption. This was a South Function eruption if there ever was one. 
Also, the duration was "only" 69 minutes.
 
We will, of course, never know if there was a hot period or not, but I 
personally suspect not. For one thing, there was a jogger who saw the eruption from 
the bike path; he said that not more than a "minute or two" before then he 
passed Giant on the boardwalk and saw "nothing except that over there" ("that" 
being Bijou). So, I think the trigger likely was massive surging in Giant 
after/during an "attempted hot period" -- the sort of event that happened yesterday 
morning. Note, too, that there apparently was one (two?) observed Mastiff 
bathtub later yesterday.
 
Well, fun for sure. Get right down to it, that was about all I saw today, as 
I spent most of the rest of my time in the Lower Basin where I managed to miss 
just about everything (except Labial, 0619).
 
Scott Bryan



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