<!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 6.00.6000.16441" 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 just talked to Brad Barth, a long-time and reliable tour guide, and it was indeed he who made the report abouot Morning... errr, this morning. He is one of the fulltime drivers of the big yellow Buffalo Bus rigs -- you've probably all seen him, even if you didn't know it. He said:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fountain was in eruption as they entered Fountain Flat. He tried to hurry his group up to the mud pots and beyond in order to see some of Fountain. They were successful. While all the way out by Spasm is apparently when Morning started. There was a series of bursts, mostly 25-30 feet high but one that Brad feels hit at least 80 feet. These were definitely from the pool of Morning and not Morning's Thief. One of his passengers got some video of it, video apparently already seen by people in the OFVC.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fountain had a total duration in excess of 40 minutes and at times was tossing rocks, which Brad thought maybe were being washed over to Fountain by Morning's action.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And I had not heard this before now: apparently Morning also had a confirmed-by-photo eruption sometime in mid-winter.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Stay tuned.</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>