<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><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> <DIV dir=ltr align=left> </DIV> <DIV> We had the good fortune of seeing Giant in erupt yesterday. It seemed like the excitement was over for the day so for the evening my family and I (all 6 of us) decided to take a stroll down at <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Biscuit</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. We got out of our van and walk over the road to take a look at Mercury Geyser. As we turned around to return to <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Biscuit</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, my oldest son, Curtis, said, "Dad, look at that!" I looked up and Wall Pool was erupting easily to 40-50 feet (it may have been much higher). It was dark black water and mud surging with powerful bursts. Rocks and mud could be seen flying everywhere. <o:p> </o:p> I started to run, stopped, took a quick picture, and then started running again to get closer. As we ran, Curtis and I were yelling in the radio that something spectacular was going on at Biscuit Basin. At first we were not sure what was erupting. By the time we crossed the bridge the eruption was basically over. It did one smaller surge to a foot or two and ended. Steaming mud and rocks were spread everywhere behind the pool covering the ground.  <o:p> </o:p> Three people who were on the bridge at the time said that the ground had thumped really hard. We hung out for a little while hoping to see more. Some other gazers showed up, but by then things had really quieted down. I have embedded in this e-mail thumbnails of the pictures I took of the eruption and the debris left after the eruption. <o:p> </o:p> Note: I took the time of the eruption from the digital image. I verified that the clock in my camera has the corrected time. It showed the eruption time to be <st1:time Hour="21" Minute="8">21:08</st1:time>. The eruption was very short lived, less than a minute.   It was a thrilling experience.     Kendall   <o:p>         <IMG src="cid:031000605@14072006-04CA">           <IMG style="WIDTH: 845px; HEIGHT: 434px" height=482 src="cid:031000605@14072006-04D1" width=869> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </o:p></DIV></BODY></HTML>