<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> Opening day for the summer 2006 season!   Little Brother is still active.   Little Squirt was seen today at 1846ie.   Sawmill was in eruption most of the time today.   The evening Grand was 1825 (N/T2Q) with a duration of 11m 32s.  West Triplet started erupting with Grand.  The brown color in West Triplet appears to be a tainting of the water, something that has been seen in it before.  It has the color of weak coffee.   Oblong was erupting at almost exact 4h 30m intervals today.   Giant-Paul Strasser can fill in more of what it was like in the morning, but Giant was very active today.  Bijou was strong and jetting as high as 20 feet on several occasions.  With this, both vents of Mastiff were frequently surging over its rim and erupting several feet into the air and Giant was frequently filling the bottom third of the cone and sloshing water over the south side and front of its cone.  For most of the afternoon when I was there, the front vent was in a near steady state of “depth charging”.  Hot periods were coming every 60-140 minutes, with durations of 1-3 minutes.  Immediately prior to the hot periods at 1452 and 1609, the back vent of Mastiff began to erupt to a height of 3-8 feet and flooded the back of the platform.  Despite Grotto being in a marathon, it took close to 5 hours before any effect was seen at the Giant platform and almost 6.5 hours before Bijou finally stopped erupting.   Grotto started around noon and was still in eruption at 1840.  Spa did not start until close to 6 hours into the eruption.   Daisy had closed intervals ranging from 2h 11m to 4 hours.   The marker is still on Fan and Mortar.   There is an erupting feature in the Biscuit Basin area that appears to be new.  It is located on the western bank of the Firehole River in a marshy area about 200 feet downstream of the foot bridge in the flats below Wall Pool.  The play was about 3 feet high and was overflowing into the river.   Fountain is still active.  Recent eruptions have started from very low pool levels.   MK </div> </body> </html>