<!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 a brief bit of the mundane:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Pink Cone 0633ie.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>0730 and beyond Dome active</DIV> <DIV>0733ns Beehive's Indicator, 0746 Beehive</DIV> <DIV>0734 Plume</DIV> <DIV>0755ns steam Oblong</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1010ie enroute on a brief trip from Great Fountain to OF, one of the geysers across the river from Flood, beyond West Flood was erupting to at least 20 feet high.</DIV> <DIV>1012ie Till</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>1145ns steam cloud Fountain</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Now the narrative, entitled:</DIV> <DIV>I KNEW SOMETHING WAS GOING ON, or HOW GREAT FOUNTAIN STARTED WILD PHASE</DIV> <DIV>(thanks to Vickie and Alan, and Bill and Carol for some of the following)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I will look forward to seeing the electronic download for Great Fountain for the last couple of days. As I noted yesterday, the action by Great Fountain was somewhat puzzling, what with an unquestionable "false overflow" at 0605, followed by an up-and-down pool all day to finally end with an eruption at 1646. I honestly anticipate that to have been an interval of over 25 1/2 hours.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Today, Bill and Carol saw Great Fountain at 0612ie. I saw it at 0714ie. They saw it some more and left after a 30-foot burst at 0759. My, that's a long eruption.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>After breakfast at the store and intending only to go to the Pink Cone area (though Pink Cone had already gone, it was raining hard at Old Faithful and actually tried to turn ot snow as I drove through Midway), at about 0920 I found Great Fountain in overflow. Yes! Full boiling overflow. Heavens! Please note: a full pool less than 1 1/2 hours after eruptioon had been seen.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Moments after I parked, it boiled to probably at least 2 meters. Yes.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So I walked down the boardwalk. Vigorous boiling continued and at 0934 it started to erupt. At first it was massive surging to 20 feet or so. Then what I will call a true superburst -- at least 180 feet and beyond the road. What in the world...? Ah, yes, unquestionably the start of wild phase.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thus it started. That first burst lasted about 11 minutes. It was followed by the following (including the above):</DIV> <DIV>start-end (estimated height)</DIV> <DIV>0925 (2+ meter boil)</DIV> <DIV>0934-0945 (180 superburst)</DIV> <DIV>0949-0953 (50)</DIV> <DIV>0959-1006 (50)</DIV> <DIV>1007- I departed, knowing now that this had to be wild phase -- back at OF, I called the VC, then returned to Great Fountain</DIV> <DIV>----</DIV> <DIV>1041-1048 (30)</DIV> <DIV>1056-1102 (50)</DIV> <DIV>1111-1118 (>100 easily)</DIV> <DIV>1125-1132 (80)</DIV> <DIV>1139-1145 (blue bubble[!] but only 40 feet)</DIV> <DIV>1153-1159 (60)</DIV> <DIV>1207-1213 (>100 and sharply angled with some spray onto the road)</DIV> <DIV>1221-1227 (70)</DIV> <DIV>1235-1242 (40)</DIV> <DIV>1250-1256 (50)</DIV> <DIV>departure</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Those heights are estimates, but I've seen many a normal eruption that failed to match many of these bursts.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Relationships: Though I wasn't watching real closely, the activity by Botryoidal, A-0, and Logbridge seemed perfectly normal. However, in the other direction there were eruptions by White Dome at 1039 and 1210 and no more as I departed a bit after 1300 -- I know I did not miss an eruption during any of that time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>And to think that I almost didn't go in today because of the rain.</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 trade secrets for amazing burgers. <A title="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002" href="http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002" target="_blank">Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food</A>.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>