<!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 6.00.2900.2963" 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 8/13/2006 5:49:53 PM Mountain Standard Time, KSCOPE_YNP@peoplepc.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><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Black Diamond has not been seen in eruption in 8 days.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Due to tours, illness and above all, wife's return, I have not been in the UGB very much. But can positively say that sometime between Saturday, August 5, and Thursday, August 10, Black Diamond most definitely DID erupt, as on the 10th the rocks were decidedly different than they were on the 5th, and the pools' waters were considerably muddier, too.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>