<!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 6.00.6000.16414" 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>Surprised so far to see nothing yet on the list about Giant. So...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>GIANT last evening, May 1, at 1911. It was on the recovery hot period, a bit early only about 7 1/2 hours after Grotto quit. No, I wasn't there but I'm told that Giant started about 12 minutes into the hot period. Mastiff had been up and down, inches to 4 feet, almost constantly throughout, then took off roughly 1 minute before Giant. New chart attached.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I think you all now know that the last (errr... "most recent") Beehive was March 22 at 1611, this per the download data sent via Ralph Taylor. Thanks!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Practically the first thing I saw today (after discovering that Giant had erupted) was Grotto Fountain. And this was fun. Note the times:</DIV> <DIV>0804 Grotto Fountain</DIV> <DIV>0813 Grotto attempted to start with much churning inside the cone, but no eruption.</DIV> <DIV>0828 Grotto Fountain down to bursting to a few feet, South GF off.</DIV> <DIV>0831 Grotto Fountain to 50 feet, SGF booming.</DIV> <DIV>0832 Grotto with a humongous start</DIV> <DIV>and then, yes</DIV> <DIV>0842 Rocket major. Really. Duration only about 1 minute but definitely a major.</DIV> <DIV>I though sure that Grotto would quickly shut down, but it was still going as of 0920. Viewed from way up basin, I think it was off by 1000 and it definitely was so as of 1030.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Daisy 0749 and 1054. It had not erupted again as of 1330.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Oblong was an empty hole at 0745, erupted at 1145.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grand, after those nice short intervals (from yesterday overnight, at 2215E and 0502E, intervals 7:21 and 6:43) today it decided to rest a bit. The eruption at 1302 (T2C, d=11m46s, first burst did not end until the 10m20s point) was an interval of 8h00m. But mystery here. I absolutely know that West Triplet (and Rift) did not erupt at any time between 0740 and this eruption. During the "build up" there was NO activity whatsoever even in Percolator -- not even visible steam (I have witnesses). Water finally became visible in West Triplet about when Grand ended, and it started at 1319.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Castle at 0432E was a minor, 0856 a major.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After hours of splashing around, Lion finally had the initial at 1257</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>BIOS</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Plume evidently had a long interval this morning, as I was on Geyser Hill for a good 45 minutes and did not see Plume enroute to, on, or enroute from the Hill. However, we did see it from afar at 1154 and 1321.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We saw Plate, too, 1330ie.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Rather winded by then, I went up to the Snow Lodge for a snack, then came out with a stop at West Flood, which again had heavy overflows but no visible boils or bursts.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Steve Eide had Fountain at 1000, d=32 min.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</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>