<!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 4/7/2006 5:01:47 PM Pacific Standard Time, seide1@mindspring.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>Are you saying there was another active vent as part of Castle that<BR>became inactive about 1861, or there was a different geyser near Castle<BR>that is no longer active, or are you just pulling out leg?  Interesting<BR>that the indians measured so accurately in meters.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Actually, though obviously there is no vent (active or dead) on that side of Castle, John Railey swore that he once saw an eruption at about that exact place, as viewed from Grand. We think he must have seen something out in the Myriad Group...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>As for that Indian measurement, they had some difficulties, as they 1) had to convert from their local unit of measurement to meters (1197.43x = meters), which they probably had learned from some Viking trapper in the 1100s; and 2) needed to use a cherry-picker sort of thing (boy, you should have seen THAT contraption) to reach up to the top of the water column. Which, by the way, was cold.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yes. Summer will get here. Won't it?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>