<!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 6.00.6000.16481" 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> </DIV> <DIV>GIANT June 20, 2007, at 1412, Mastiff function on marathon recovery, I = 7d 11h 56m, D = 96m. Recovery time from end of Grotto to eruption a short (very short ! ) ~5h 25m (with which we uniformly agreed was a very nice thing for the geysers to do for us on a hot [80+ degree] day.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grotto started a marathon yesterday at 1744. It was quite short, ending today at about 0745, so a duration of about 14h. Before 1100 I saw jetting in back Mastiff, and each time it quit there was jetting in Catfish; also, water was frequently visible jetting in Giant. At this point I radioed that this appeared to be a quick, short period recovery. It sure was. The first bit of splashing I saw in Bijou was at about 1200.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mastiff began rising at about 1358. At first it came up to being barely visible and then sat there for a bit, so we were thinking "bathtub." But then it rose quickly with strong (1 to 3 foot) boiling. Feather on at 1401, Satellite very quickly after that. Mastiff immediately boiled variably 1 to 4 feet high, and by the 2-minute mark, it was obviously wide, too. Mastiff did have a flat pause at about 4 minutes, but it was brief and actually bubbled throughout. Then it quickly came back and at this point I was pretty sure we had an eruption. By 7 1/2 minutes, Mastiff was hitting 10+ feet, but still just surging. The bursting, the eruption started at 1410, by my watch 8m 34s after the start of the hot period.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And along came Giant. It really didn't think about things too much -- no protracted series of "come ON" surges. Its eruption started at 1412, 10m 47s into the hot period. Gorgeous sky and lighting.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Photo of Mastiff about 1 minute into it is attached here. I'll attach a photo of Giant to a separate e-mail.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Meanwhile... (my notebook fell into some Giant water, and I lost part of today's page):</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Riverside erupted.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Oblong was 0728 and 1300, so a "long" 5h 32m.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Daisy was kind of intermediate today, erupting at 0757, 1103, and 1354.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Artemisia was called at 1220, 25h 12m from yesterday's sighting.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grand was last night at 23xx (there goes a piece of my notebook!) and today at 0816 (T2Q) and during Giant at 1506 (I was not watching for the number of bursts).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Castle had a minor during my quick morning trip the the Lower Basin and I didn't get the time; it had the major either just before or during Giant. Somebody called it, but...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Beehive erupted at 1354, without Indicator, so just 7 minutes before the hot period. Indeed, Heinrich and Lynn were watching it from near Castle when I called the rising water.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In the Lower Basin, Great Fountain was 1157 (P=7).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Looking at Fountain, etc. today, you'd never know something odd had happened yesterday. All seemed perfectly "normal." Judging by the damp runoff channels, Fountain probably erupted around 0730. Then as I drove out, it was 1620ie with Clepsydra off.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>A nice day was had by all, especially since several long-time gazers got their first Giant.</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>