<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 9/7/2004 7:37:42 PM Mountain Daylight Time, upperbasin@comcast.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">To me, the big difference this weekend to early August was the utter lack of activity in Upper Mortar.  Only once was a small splash seen, and an occasional rumble was heard.  But it never offered the 1-2 minute interval surging after an event cycle (or any cycle, for that matter).  When we left, the interval was only 4.7 days, which in the grand scheme of things isn’t that long.  I surely hope someone is there when it finally goes. (IF it goes….)</SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>IHi, All:</DIV> <DIV>'m really glad Paul said the above, as I meant to do so. I was rather astonished at the lack of Mortar (not jnust Upper Mortar) activity -- even Bottom Vent impressed me as being a bit on the weak side. But as noted before, F&M have more or less been different during each of the last several intervals, so who really knhows. (Answer: nobody.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></BODY></HTML>