<!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 6.00.6000.16640" 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>First the good news: at 1054, the rangers opened the UGB trails, including Biscuit Basin.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Potential bad news: the big griz that has been hanging out at Midway was at 1315 about 1/2 mile south of Steel Bridge -- too close for my liking.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bad news #1: The Fan and Mortar markers are in place (1116).</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bad news #2: The Giant signs are in place; Giant has not erupted since April 29. As I am about to hit the send buttom, this is eleven minutes short of 12 full days.</DIV> <DIV>     I don't quite know how to explain this, but... a couple of weeks ago I posted a new Giant chart on which I interpreted one stretch with three eruptions, then a stretch with two eruptions. I am going to retract that interpretation and, sorry, but will not be surprised if Giant erupted only in late March, on April 16 (which still is only probable?), and on April 29. Here's why I say this:</DIV> <DIV>     Back on May 3 we had that hot period on which I thought Giant tried to erupt. Later that day was the series of hot periods during which Bijou failed to turn off (or even weaken in most cases), sort of culminating with the strange hot period when Cave reached 3 to 4 feet along with Feather, Satellite and SW vents but zero from Turtle, Slit, Rust, and the Postholes. Also on that day was the heavy overflow by North and East Purple Pools.</DIV> <DIV>     The next day, May 4, very clearly was a Grotto marathon recovery. What was undoubtedly the marathon recovery hot period took place at 1135 and had a whopping duration of about 3 minutes. There was not another event (a bathtub) until 1521, then a weak hot period at 1613 that had only Feather and SW vents for a duration of 3m 15s.</DIV> <DIV>     The trails were closed on May 5 and remained so until this morning. As noted, today the sign logs are exactly where they were on May 4. With the trail opening, I was on-site at 1108.</DIV> <DIV>     Mastiff was depth charging but the platform looked very dry. The more I looked, the more I said "Oh, oh." At 1137 water was rising in Mastiff. It rose to about 6 inches below overflow, held for around 3 minutes, and then dropped. Bijou never turned off. At 1237, water rose in Mastiff to about 6 inches below overflow, held for maybe 2 minutes this time, then dropped. Bijou never turned off. At no time was there drooling in Feather or sputtering in Southwest. Between these bathtubs, the standing water in The GIP was at least 1 foot below the elbow.</DIV> <DIV>     Meanwhile, Oblong seemed to again be going through the frequent overflows, dropping only an inch or so between them. North Purple Pool was overflowing enough to see the water hit the river. AND ( ? very significant) South Purple not only was not overflowing, but in 40-degree air it showed only bare wisps of steam.</DIV> <DIV>     Methinks something happened.</DIV> <DIV>-----------</DIV> <DIV>Meanwhile:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I only caught two Plume intervals, 44 and 47 minutes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Beehive's Indicator was 0751ie on my arrival, Beehive at 0757.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Depression 0826.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Lion was in-series, with 0759, 0854 minor, 0914 minor, 0946 (full), and then another one called when I was down basin and failed to write it down.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Aurum erupted around 0915, when I was in the woods, and again at 1300.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At roughly 0930, I could not see water in Giantess; in Vault the level was down about 1 foot below the rim.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Castle 1015 major.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grand 0850, another 1-burst (-1Q, d~11 3/4 min). Rift started either during or just after Grand.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Did not see Oblong today, as noted above.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Did not see Daisy, but it erupted about when I was at F&M, at roughly 1120.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Riverside then decided to start when I was up looking at non-eruptive Splendid, 1129ns.</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">Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? <A title="http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001" href="http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001" target="_blank">Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>