<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body id="role_body" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin="7" leftMargin="7" topMargin="7" rightMargin="7"> Greetings and Salutations, I did get some pictures of Improbable/PLH, some in minor eruption, some in major eruption, and some post eruption.  I'm sending a disk with them to the Sput.  I'll attempt to attach two of them to this e-mail.  The first picture is from the major on 11-1-05 at 1251 and the second is from the next major eruption on 11-1-05 at 1427. I know I'm late writing on this but when I returned from visiting yellowstone 10-30 to 11-3 I had to jump back into some long days at work to make up the vacation time. Lynn has already reported the major geyser activity I saw during my visit.  I did catch two majors from PLH on 11-1-05 and a few other minor geysers. The morning of 11-1-05 I was hanging around the main hill waiting for Beehive.  Plume was having somewhat longer intervals with eruptions at 0907, 1016, 1134, 1246, 1406, and 1513.  The Plume intervals I have from 10-31 are all in a 54-60 minute range.  I have no idea if there is any relationship between Plume and PLH.  I saw Little Squirt i.e. at 1040, it could not have been more than 2-3 minutes from the start.  >From where I was standing Little Squirt was right behind PLH so the steam from a PLH minor screened it from view for a while.  Subjectively, PLH was having minors that had more strenght or height this morning compaired to what I watched on 10-31.  The minors were up to three feet in height.  Then the first major started at 1251.  As reported by Lynn, she timed the duration at about two minues.  I took some pictures, they suffer from being a little too close and the fact it was cold and steamy.  The major ended in a steam phase and was followed by about 45 minutes of occasional steam puffing out of PLH, sometimes sounding like Lion roaring.  After the steam puffing quit I could hear water gurgling in PLH.  The first visible water droplets from splashing were seen at 1412.  At 1419 I finally saw visible standing water at the bottom of the crater, and the second major started at 1427 before PLH finished filling (it had not reached overflow).  The duration of the second major was about two minutes also  The maximum height of both majors was about 20 feet, however the majority of the water was only in the 10-15 foot range.  I was likely was babbling a bit when I reported that data to Lynn so she reported earlier that I gave the height as 15 feet.  The error is mine, but I estimated the maximum height was 20 feet.  This was followed by more steam puffing/roars.  Beehive indicator started at 1436 and Beehive at 1449.  I left the main hill after that in hopes of catching Fountian. I had no luck with Fountian but I did catch a Jelly eruption at 1642.  When I arrived Spasm was down about 3 feet and was rising.  Jelly was full and overflowing gently.  After a few minutes Jelly rose an inch or two with significant overflow and some boiling/splashing to about 1-2 feet for perhaps 10 seconds.  Then the pool level dropped about a foot.  Looking back in my log books, I have one other case like this this summer and one last fall 2004.  All three Jelly eruptions started about midway through the Fountian cycle.  All started after a period of overflow from Jelly and while Spasm was rising but still several feet below overflow and several minutes before the start of Spasm.  Has anyone else noticed this behavior?  Perhaps Jelly is more active but is not recorded because it starts in the middle of the Fountian cycle and usually if you're in the middle of the Fountian cycle few people wait around to be there to see it. I timed four Botryodial eruptions on 11-2-05 and the intervals were 4 minutes 53 seconds, 4 minutes 38 seconds, and 4 mintues 38 seconds.  After that Great Fountian called.  Before the Giant eruption on 11-2 I noticed that Solstice slipped into an on/off mode at 1326, for the next 15 minutes it would be off for 40-70 seconds, on for 10-50 seconds, then off, then on, and so on.  Unfortunately high winds and sleet drove me in at about 1340 so I missed the start of Giant about 45-60 minutes later.  I did catch quite a bit of the eruption, but again I missed the start. On 11-3-05 I took more pictures of PLH/Improbable.  It appeared to have had more major eruption(s) since 11-1-05 because a sinter arch that was over the lower part of the crater was completely blown away and the crater had enlarged to about 3 feet (Plume to Little Squirt axis) by 3.5 feet (Anenome to OF Inn axis).  I think I remember Tara estimated the crater at 4 X 4.5 a day or two after this.  Also on 11-3-05 Plume was dormant.  It was easy to tell because the snow that fell off and on all day was building up on the sinter around Plume.  I believe the last recorded eruption was on the afternoon of 11-2-05. Thats about all I have that Lynn didn't report.  I hope the pictures follow. Stephen Eide   <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <pre WRAP><a href="https://mailman.wwc.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers"></a></pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>