<!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 6.00.2900.2668" 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>Well, one needs to check Norris now and then, so I spent a couple of hours there this morning. Notes here about a lot of things but, in summary, Norris is Norris. In the order of my walk:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rediscovered was inactive. Forgotten Fumarole appeared to have not erupted in quite some time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Monarch continues to have intermittent overflow accompanied by heavy bubbling that falls short of what could be called a true eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Corporal is active much as before, intermittent overflow accompanied by bubbling and occasional small splashes. Most notable was that it was audibly thumping the ground as the water rose.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Veteran was acting like a perpetual spouter.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Vixen is dormant, dry and quiet.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Porkchop was quiet but was very heavily overflowing opalescent water. The spouter/geyser on its northwest side was inactive but appeared to perhaps be acting as an intermittent spring.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Orby was vigorously active, bursting as high as 6 (maybe 8) feet with intervals of about 1 minutes and durations of several minutes. Indeed, Orby was the best geyser I saw today.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Both Grandson... and Daughter of Green Dragon were non-splashing steamvents while Son of Green Dragon was perpetually bursting several feet high.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yellow Funnel was at a very low level, constantly bursting nearly clear water 2 to 4 feet high.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I could see not water anywhere among the Hydrophane Springs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Green Dragon, back inside the cavern, was very vigorous, with some bursts actually hitting the roof of the cave.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mud Spring was the prettiest pool at Norris, crystal clear and beautiful blue-green.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>But Mystic Spring was ugly brown. It is clearly still active as a geyser but apparently without overflowing, and it is depositing powdery sulphur in the crater and on the sinter above its main vent.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Crater Spring is very high, clear and gently bubbling.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Echinus was overflowing. And overflowing. Later, it was overflowing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cistern was splashing. One I did not see was noisy enough to hear from Steamboat's lower platform.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Steamboat was having mostly north vent jets. No solo south vent that I saw. And I saw only a couple of "decent" concerted minors, but then the water appeared not higher than halfway up the background trees (as viewed from the lower platform).</DIV> <DIV>------</DIV> <DIV>Guardian remains a loud steam vent, as does Black Growler.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Ledge's main vent is still pushing a bit of water over the rim to form a trickling flow.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I saw one eruption by Constant, and activity by what might be Fan. The Lava Pool Complex is nearly dry, and Pinto was a quiet pool at a low level.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Sunday was bubbling. "Lambchop" was jetting 8 to 10 feet high from two vents, and Incline was surging within its crater.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Notable is Congress Pool, which is completely full, opaque blue and bubbling while producing significant overflow -- enough to run all the way to the floor of Porcelain Basin at a rate of around 40 or 50 gallons per minute.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>