<!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 6.00.2900.2873" 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>Today's interval for Grand was 6h 52m (from electronic time of 03:56), and it was a T2Q</DIV> <DIV>.</DIV> <DIV>Today's interval for Beehive was short, at 21h 47m. The Indicator, seen from its start, preceded Beehive by only 7 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Oblong had an interval of 3h 54m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Plume is doing better than it did a few days ago, with consecutive intervals today of 63, 64, 66, and 64 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Castle had an interval of 12h 54m (electronic to near start). I personally have yet to see a minor eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Fan and Mortar marker remains in place.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>From yesterday's steam cloud to today's steam cloud, Artemisia was exactly 24h 00m. It does seem to be quite consistent in the 12 to 14 hour range.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Penta is doing something new, in that it is having "mixed phase" eruptions that take place _during_ Sawmill Group deep drains. I heard of one of these 2 or 3 days ago.Today I saw it happen. Sawmill was going; Tardy was going; but Spasmodic was already drained to a very low level, as was Oval; Twilight was dropping. And here came Penta, very steamy but jetting water 10 to 12 feet high with sufficient volume to form a pool just shy of overflow. The duration was about 5 minutes... I expected Sawmill to quit in short order but it actually continued for another full hour.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>OK, now Giant. No eruption yet, but perhaps the best hot period in a few days, at a time when I most definitely did not expect it. At 07:45, Grotto was off but it had not been off for very long -- the runoff channels were still wet and traces of steam could be seen when backlit by the sun. Bijou etc. were totally off. Marathon Pool was lower, I think, than I've ever seen it before AND it was splashing 1 to 2 feet high. I theerfore conclude that the marathon that started around dawn yesterday is the same that ended near dawn today (that is, a marathon duration of something around 24 hours).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>That's why the hot period at 0950i.e. caught me by surprise. I was just casually strolling out that way. The hot period had not started as I passed by Beauty and Chromatic; it was going when I got back into sight near Oblong. Mastiff reached 4 to 6 feet high repeatedly (but could not hold such a height for more than a few seconds). The duration, from when I saw it in progress, was about 6 1/2 minutes. Roughly 2 minutes after its end, there was a Feather Vent restart and it was then that Bijou briefly tried a bit of steam phase as it came on.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Three hours later, water was very low in GIP, the entire Giant Platform area appeared all but dead (a spit now and then from Bijou), and Grotto Fountain-Grotto appeared to be nowhere near a start.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've still seen just one Fountain eruption, and it seems that nobody has any sort of handle on what it is doing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>