<!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>So, I did get into the park for a short while today, in the basins roughly from 0700 to 1100. But really, this is my last report of 2006. :-(</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grotto was in marathon this morning. It had also been in marathon all day yesterday, apparently. So you'd think that today's was a continuation of yesterday's. However, although Bijou etc. were thoroughly dead, the water level was quite high in The GIP, Variable was down not more than 1 1/2 inches, and Marathon was down only slightly.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Here's a rather amazing item: per the electronic download, from last evening into today, Daisy erupted at 2155E, 0055E, 0355E and 0655E. So said the computer.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Oblong was 1002ie. (And I had not seen Daisy by that time, even though it must have been 7 minutes overdue.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grand was yesterday at 1624 (I=10h 04m), then 0010 (I=7h 46m), and 0856 (T1C, I=8h 46m).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We saw uncertain at 0839.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The two intervals I got on Plume this morning were 63 and 57 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Evidently, the big steam cloud Steve Eide and I saw from near Beauty Pool at about 0800 was Beehive. The west bubblers had been on as of about 0700, and they were off along with a _very_ quiet Beehive at 0845. So Beehive's interval was somewhere near 20 3/4 hours.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Driving in, I caught Pink Cone at 0700ns.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Driving out I managed to see A-0 Geyser -- a rather different "last geyser of the year."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After that, though, I did observe that Pebble, which had been near overflow on the inbound drive, was drained nearly empty (like, 3 feet down) at 1050. However, the surroundings and runoffs of both Crack and Gemini were dry.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>That's it! Southbound at dawn tomorrow. See you on the internet this winter, in the basins in 2007.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>