<!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 6.00.6000.16525" 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>Because all of this list's moderators are in Yellowstone, normal posting are not being sent out on a regular basis. So who knows when this will go. But for the record:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yesterday (Wednesday, 9/5) Grotto ended a marathon somewhere in the vicinity of 0700, for a duration of around 17 hours. Not long enough. The recovery hot period began at 1413, involved Mastiff to 6 feet and cone-filling surges in Giant, had a duration of near 16 minutes... and resulted in no eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Since then, some hot periods have had durations of 8 to 9 minutes, but they've been rather weak. For example, today at 1252 was a hot period that lasted 8m 45s but (I wasn't there but heard it on the radio) never had more than bubbling in Mastiff and no mention of Cave.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Last night, starting at (I believe) 2325 was the start of a Grotto. Its duration is unknown, but it might have been one of those in-between durations (like 5 hours or so). Early, even after a 0615 hot period, Bijou etc. acted almost as if there had been a true marathon. And as of about 1400, Grotto Fountain apparently still had not started (that is, 14+ hours after what had to be a relatively short Grotto).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In summary, the entire Grotto-Giant complex seems out of sync so that nothing quite knows what to do.</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">Get a sneak peek of the all-new <A title="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" href="http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour/?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000982" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>