<!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 6.00.2900.2802" 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> <DIV>In a message dated 1/6/2006 5:12:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, KSCOPE_YNP@peoplepc.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">There was a report from at least 2 snowmobile guides from </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">West Yellowstone</SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> that Morning Geyser erupted with Fountain on 1/05.  Both witnessed it from the main road, not from the boardwalk.  When I visited the area at 1400 on 1/06, there was deep snow and undisturbed gravel up to the rim of Morning.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I take by this that Mike feels that Morning did NOT erupt. But might the guides have seen Morning's Thief, which I and others saw erupt well over 20 feet high (likely over 30 feet) more than once in 2005.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>