<!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>GIANT erupted this morning, at 08:04. A gorgeous, cloudless morning. Interval: 7d 09h 44m. What happened is this:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>When I arrived, KC and Julie Thomson were in the lower store parking lot, very casually getting ready to head out. Kit Barger was already out, so KC called her for geyser news. Kit reported that Bijou was on, that the GIP was not very high, and that Grotto was only recently off from what had to be a normal (non-marathon) eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>OK. So based on yesterday, Grand seemed "due." Thus we headed there, joined by Darrel and Ann Scharf; and once at Grand, here came Kit. Turban, no Grand. We talked about whatever when we noticed that there was an awful lot of steam at Giant. Time 07:57.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Quickly, we saw Mastiff surging up maybe 3 or 4 feet. Then we saw it some more. Then we started that way. Then Mastiff got bigger. Quite abruptly, as we all were more or less at Beauty Pool, Mastiff took off -- 20, 30, maybe 40 feet high. Time 08:03. And Giant started less than one minute later.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On site and "calmed down," we guesstimated that Giant had exceeded 200 feet. Duration to the last, final bursts of water, about 86 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So Giant erupted on a hot period that took place probably 2 or fewer hours after then end of a normal Grotto eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Other items:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grand went at 09:33, that "interval" from the previous observed eruption being a bit longer than 18 hours. No electronic download, as Rebecca was the only naturalist on duty (so to speak) as others were busy packing things in the VC upstairs. (The move to the new, temporary VC begins tomorrow.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Beehive was at 10:23, after an Indicator of 1 minute or less; interval 14h 30m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Daisy was at 08:23ie and 10:40ie, a rather short interval of only 2h 17m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Plume had consecutive intervals of 66, 64, and 67 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mary Beth, soon to be a new home owner driving in from West, saw Fountain at 10:14ie, ending at 10:33.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>