Someplace there should be one or more reports by Hutchinson about the activity by Morning in the early 1980s, especially 1983. I well recall one day when I was tabbed to help him place his port-a-corder (basically, portable seismometer, which at the time was Rick's primary monitoring device) out on the far side of Morning. I don't know how long he had the thing out there... Unfortunately (so here's hoping), 1983 was the last year in which I saw Morning erupt -- the first episode in 1991 was when I was on Kamchatka and the second episode ended a few days before my September arrival)... Anyhow, while the height figure of 200 feet is not mine, my recollection from 1983 and before is that Morning's bigger bursts far exceeded anything I've ever seen out of Fountain, distance from the boardwalk fully considered. Scott Bryan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: </geyser-list/attachments/20120622/eb714de3/attachment.html>