<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style>  </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I am glad to see that F&M erupted this week.  Here are my rather sparse notes on the activity for the week before.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> General observations:<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>1)                   <![endif]>I never saw Bottom Vent erupting or evidence that it had been erupting (e.g. the snow was very slow to clear in its runoff channel and the runoff channel was never fully wet when I observed it)<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>2)                   <![endif]>There were several days I saw event cycles with Main Vent (MV) and Bottom Vent (BV) splashing.  When river restarted it would sometimes stay on for a while, look like it was going to stop, then came back on strong followed by Gold and Angle.<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>3)                   <![endif]>Water levels did stay good for 10-15 minutes on a couple of occasions before turning over to steam (not just on event cycles either)<o:p></o:p> <![if !supportLists]>4)                   <![endif]>There was only one day I saw two event cycles (Saturday 23rd) and the interval between them was about 6 hours.  The activity then was the strongest of the week with a huge splash out of Main Vent.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Sunday Feb 17th<o:p></o:p> 0628 River Vent (RV) turned on and MV and BV splashing<o:p></o:p> Looked like Gold Vent (GV) turned on weakly but unsure due to steam<o:p></o:p> 0639 RV looked like it turned off but came back on strong quickly<o:p></o:p> 0644 GV on<o:p></o:p> 0646 AV on<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Monday Feb 18th<o:p></o:p> 1555ie RV, GV, AV on – good water for 15 minutes<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Tuesday Feb 19th<o:p></o:p> Did I mention that Giant erupted 0932?  J<o:p></o:p> Then I went down to the UGB so no F&M events observed.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Wednesday Feb 20th<o:p></o:p> 1454 RV turned off<o:p></o:p> 1503 RV cough<o:p></o:p> 1518 BV splashing<o:p></o:p> 1519 MV splashing<o:p></o:p> 1529 RV on and BV continued to splash<o:p></o:p> 1540 RV off – RV Pause<o:p></o:p> 1546 RV on and MV and BV splashing<o:p></o:p> 1552 GV on<o:p></o:p> 1558 AV on<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thursday Feb 21st<o:p></o:p> 1145 RV was off and so was AV (most of the time AV had been on when RV was off before)<o:p></o:p> 1159 MV and BV splashing<o:p></o:p> 1212 RV on<o:p></o:p> 1214 GV on<o:p></o:p> 1222 RV off – GV Pause?<o:p></o:p> 1223 RV and GV on again<o:p></o:p> 1224 AV on<o:p></o:p> Water dropped at 15 minutes<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Friday Feb 22nd<o:p></o:p> No events seen, not much observation time since I went down to the UGB again.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Saturday Feb 23rd<o:p></o:p> 0630 BV and MV splashing<o:p></o:p> 0650 RV on<o:p></o:p> 0657 GV on<o:p></o:p> 0713 RV off – GV Pause.  Strong MV and BV splashing<o:p></o:p> 0715 RV on<o:p></o:p> 0719 RV barely still on<o:p></o:p> 0722 RV Pause?<o:p></o:p> 0724 RV, GV, AV all on<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 1238ie MV and BV splashing<o:p></o:p> 1247 Huge MV splash into East Vent – got me all excited!<o:p></o:p> 1254 RV and GV on<o:p></o:p> 1257 AV on<o:p></o:p> Good water for 13 minutes then died.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I kept hoping to see BV erupt and was very interested on my last day in the park with that big splash into East Vent.  Things just didn’t seem to be in-sync though when I was there.  Let’s hope it gets going regularly for the summer season.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Graham.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>