<!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 6.00.2900.2722" 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>Although in the park for quite a while today, part of that was wasted at Norris. Really. Steamboat was putting out a lot of water but all jets I saw were weak, none truely concerted, and none as high as the top of the background trees. Rumors of a disturbance seem unfounded unless it is extremely localized in the neighborhood of Orby, which is very muddy. But otherwise, all seemed normal... meaning, not much.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In the UGB, Plume has improved to intervals of a little more than one hour -- intervals I know from today were 64 and 77 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The "warning" given by Beehive's "West Bubbler," now apparently becoming known as the "Blurbler," has shortened considerable. Just 18 minutes (I think it was) today brom Bubbler to Indicator.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Just saw Ralph's post about Silex. Add to the list todays (9/8) activity in the early daylight. I didn't get the time, but I'm told David Leeking saw it, somebody else saw the crater empty at about 0730, and I saw the crater not quite full with murky blue water at about 0930. This interval therefore a few hours less than 2 days only. The downside is that these episodes are apparently consisting of only one (the initial) major followed by a series of minors of decreasing force as the crater refills.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>