<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I have just returned home following a great two weeks in the park and will make several posts but I wanted to report on the recent Giant hot periods first since I saw a few of them and they do look good to me. I was too tired to stay out on Sunday 26th after the 1856 hot period and was not a happy gazer when I went down there early on Monday and saw the signs rearranged overnight by Giant at 2235. Grrrrrrrr.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The hot periods were strong when I left the park on Sunday 10th with a couple each day in the 7-9m range. The strongest appear to be during <st1:place w:st="on">Marathon</st1:place> recovery. The last day’s data (10/9) has two hot periods over 9 minutes long, 7h 21m apart, the first occurring just over 2 hours after the <st1:place w:st="on">Marathon</st1:place> and there were no small hot periods between them. That was different to the behavior seen before where weak hot periods were occurring on intervals of 1˝ to 4˝ hours and strong hot periods were occurring 5-11 hours apart.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks to everyone that called hot period activity to help fill in some of the gaps in the data.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thursday 9/30/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0537 d=3m 25s feather and SW vents, no Feather Satellite or Mastiff overflow.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1101 d=3m 45s Feather and a little Mastiff overflow.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1345vr weak, some Mastiff overflow and posthole was active when I saw the after-play.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Friday 10/1/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0832 d=8m 25s Feather, SW vents, Rust, Mastiff overflow. Slow to start no significant Mastiff surging but Giant did some vertical surges vertically from the left side of the cone. Feather attempted to restart but only splashed.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1201 bathtub<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Between 1300 and 1340, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> ž wet.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Before 1600 – platform wet again<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1722 d=7m Feather, Feather Satellite, Rust, SW vents, Mastiff to 2’, Feather restarted for approximately 2 minutes. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> ž wet. Strong vertical surging from giant, ~15 second jet of water from Giant out of the top right side of the cone (more vertical than the left right splashes that come out of the bite, this was coming out over the top of the cone).<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Saturday 10/2/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0749 d=7m 40s better Mastiff overflow, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> completely wet, couldn’t see the surging due to steam. Feather, Feather Satellite, SW vents and Rust.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0942 d=2m 35s slight Mastiff overflow, SW vents started before Feather, no Feather Satellite.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1215 d=1m 30s Feather and SW vents only<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1505ie d > 6 ˝m Feather, Feather Satellite, Rust and SW vents. Mastiff 3-4’ surges. Overflow stronger, running over the whole of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Sunday 10/3/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0648ie near end but the overflow was strong, running over the whole of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1112 d=4m 25s Feather SW vents and Mastiff overflow but <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> did not get wet.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Monday 10/4/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> My notes are not clear but I believe Grotto had a marathon overnight, ending before 0500.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1146 d=9m 50s <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> flooded 4 minutes into hot period, heavy overflow but not much surging. Feather, Feather Satellite, Rust and SW vents.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1453 d=3m 30s <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> 1/3 wet, Feather, Feather Satellite, Rust and SW vents.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1704 d=6m Some Mastiff surging, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> 2/3 wet, Feather, Feather Satellite, and SW vents.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1840 d=2m Feather and SW vents only<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 2141 d=8m 10s slow start hot period but god overflow with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> all wet. Feather, Feather Satellite, and SW vents.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Tuesday 10/5/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0430 d=8m 5s slow like the last hot period seen, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> wet at the end.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0742 d=4m 35s Feather, Feather Satellite, Rust and SW vents, weak Mastiff overflow.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0951 d=8m 30s Feather, Feather Satellite, Rust and SW vents, Mastiff overflow was quite strong but <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> was only ~80% wet.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1314 d=3m 45s Feather, Rust and SW vents only<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1447 d=4m 10s Feather and SW vents.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1734 d=8m 30s Mastiff surging 3-4’, Feather restarted for about 1 ˝ m. Good vertical surging from Giant in the afterplay. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> completely wet.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Wednesday 10/6/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Grotto in marathon which ended ~ 0800.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1132 d=9m 20s Mastiff surging 2-4’ at times. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> flooded, Feather restarted for over a minute.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1615 d=5m 5s Feather, Feather Satellite, Rust and SW vents and Mastiff overflow but not much surging.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1955 d~8 ˝m Good overflow, could hear Mastiff surging but could not see it through the steam. Feather restarted for approximately 2 minutes<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thursday 10/7/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0557 d=8m 25s <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place> flooded 5 1/2 m into the hot period, Bijou went into roaring steam.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1339 d=9m strong overflow, boiling in Cave but it did not erupt.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1700vr, weak, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> only slightly wet.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1835 d=2m very little Mastiff overflow, Feather, Feather Satellite, and SW vents.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 2006 d=7m good Mastiff overflow, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">India</st1:place></st1:country-region> flooded 5 minutes into the hot period.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Friday 10/8/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 0511ie, ended 0515, good Mastiff overflow, probably a 7-8 minute hot period, Feather, Feather Satellite, and SW vents visible. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Grotto marathon starts 0644<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Saturday 10/9/04<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Grotto finished its marathon ~ 0817 (d~25 ˝ hours)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1030 d=9m40s some Mastiff surging, Feather restarted, good Giant vertical surges in afterplay.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1443 bathtub<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1751 d=9m 10s good overflow but not as strong as the recovery hot period at 1030. No attempt by Feather to restart. There were no small hot periods between the 1030 and 1751 hot periods and only the one bathtub as Giant was under observation all day.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Go Giant go!<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Graham Meech<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>