<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>In the basins for nearly 8 hours today, I actually have rather little to report -- another one of those times when "everything" went early.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The biggie -- Fan and Mortar erupted... sometime since last Thursday-Friday. I am told that a marker was placed on Saturday and that it was enlarged on Sunday. Evidently, though, nobody checked it on Monday -- only 3 days, mind you -- but gazers were around and are pretty certain that F&M did not erupt before Monday nor on Monday up to early afternoon. Well, loose as that may be, the marker was gone at 0830 today and at that time the geysers were far into recovery. My guess, which certainly is a guess, is that the eruption was late day on Monday, meaning an interval of much less than 4 days (maybe only 3 1/2).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grand overnight had an interval of 6h 40m. Today I had to leave as it approached 8 hours, the previous three Turban intervals having been 24, 23 1/2, and 24 minutes. On the last of those, Grand did not fill.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Daisy had a closed interval of 2h 20m, then a (presumably) double interval of 4h 21m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Giant had two hot periods, one of 7 1/2 minutes wil a small amount of surging in Mastiff, and the next of only 3+ minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Lion went 1h 21m from initial to #2.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Beehive was at 1815 yesterday and had not gone as of 1450 today. Bill Warnock is certain that he saw bubbling water in the Indicator at about 1040, and I'm pretty certain I could see a bit of quietly standing water there at about 1140. Definitely, both the West Bubbler and the Close-to-Cone Indicator were active at 0800. Meaning, obviously, that neither indicates much of anything.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Plume is still dormant.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In the Lower Basin, Fountain has been pretty consistent at about 6 1/2 hours (per Dean Lorenz). Great Fountain from yesterday to today was a double interval of a bit less than 22 hours.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Commentary -- I do not presume to be able to explain why this is so, but ... per the current schedule, the Ranger-Interpreters _never_ have longer than 1 (one) hour for geyser basin rove. They are barely able, sometimes unable, to update prediction boards. Please keep this in mind, and try to keep accurate records AND PASS THEM ALONG. Also, make sure your watch is correct -- today somebody (I do not know who) was off by almost 2 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Incident -- somebody decided to kayak the Firehole today. Evidently was caught near Fan and Mortar.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>General observation -- It is BUSY at Old Faithful. After the 1150 Old Faithful, the cafeteria line extended at least all the way across the Lodge lobby, and a short while later there were _many_ people waiting for seats at the Lower Store. And this is only mid-June, on a Tuesday.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>