<!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 6.00.5730.11" 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 approximately 1540vr.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Well, shoot. The big news is that Giant erupted this afternoon. I had been in the basin until about 1330, when I headed to the Lower Basin (where I had good luck), but therefore I missed Giant. The rangers saw the steam cloud on the Webcam -- as no doubt did some of you -- and they got the start time as a vr from a family who happened to be right there, who reported to Butch Bach who bicycled down.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This surprises me. Here's the tale from earlier. The first thing I saw this morning was a Giant Hot Period, 0731ie. Duration unknown but certainly short. Giant hot period at 0833, duration about 2 1/2 minutes, Mastiff absolutely flat throughout. I suspect there was another hot period around 0930, because there was another at 1031, duration not more than 2 minutes, Mastiff a brief bit of boiling to 1 foot or so. I might have missed another one before the one that I strongly suspect took place at 1236 -- as seen from Grand there was a lot of steam and Bijou was off for about 5 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grotto Fountain started at 1023, Grotto at 1028. Based on the Grotto duration of about 1 hour, I suspected that it was the first after a marathon.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Oh, well. Would have been nice. This was a glorious, almost cloudless day with the temp into the 50s.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Maybe this was telling something. Oblong was at 0853, then again at 1151, an interval of only 2h 58m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Daisy was running relatively short, with 0722E, unseen approximately 1000, and 1217.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Well, so I missed Giant. Grand was 0416E, then following a Rift, at 1230. It was a T - three- Q, duration about 11 1/4 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>On Geyser Hill, I did see Lion at 0930, not initial. The water in Beehive's Indicator stood a bit higher today -- still below overflow, though.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Enroute to missing Giant (actually, I was almost back to West by then):</DIV> <DIV>Great Fountain, seen from the raod and then from the Fountain Overlook, was 1355ie.</DIV> <DIV>White Dome was ie at 1419.</DIV> <DIV>I nearly walked up on Fountain, which started at 1420 and had a duration of a full 34 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Nuff said.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>New Giant chart is attached</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At 1017, Castle had its first minor since opening, d ~ 3 1/2m. It had not restarted as of 1330.</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's free at <A title="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>