<!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>I am attaching two photos, reduced in size and resolution so as to hopefully not cause too much download time for you.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>New BSB 1 is a telephoto closeup, taken from the sidewalk near Spouter Geyser. New BSB 2 is more wide angle, with Spouter in the left foreground and Opalescent Pool at the right edge of the photo. Both picturtes were taken at about 0745 this morning.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yesterday Steve Eide got pictures showing this geyser erupting to perhaps 20 feet.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Last evening, Butch Bach went out there and saw nothing.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This morning it was bursting as an intermittent geyser. The biggest splashes I saw (as in photo 1) reached perhaps 6 feet and most sprayed more outward than upward. The duration of the eruptions was uniformly about 4 minutes, with the largest bursts near the beginning of the play. The quiet between the eruptions was about 2 minutes (so intervals roughly 6 minutes), during which the geyser and the small, spouting nearby vents were completely quiet.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This afternoon at about 1445 I was there for 15 minutes and saw... noting but a lot of steam. However, unlike this morning, Spouter was in eruption and it appeared that some of its runoff might have been flowing into the crater.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This spring is certainly unnamed. It is shown on the USGS thermal map, at location J5-825E-835S. On my copy of the map, I indicate that it has been known as a geyser (with a small "g" symbol, as was done by the USGS), but I recall nothing about it. Clearly, this activity has blown out the crater, probably enlarging the vent substantially, judging by the chunky debris around it -- and likely explaining why the 20-foot jetting of yesterday was 6-foot bursting today.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In summary -- I suspect that this is going to be a temporary addition to Black Sand Basin.</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>