<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV id=yiv303268250> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"> <DIV class=plainMail>Not much time to report on geyser activity as I have returned from a great week in the basin and have immediately gone on travel for work.  Here are the key items that might be of use to observers.</DIV> <DIV class=plainMail> </DIV> <DIV class=plainMail>Depression was going very frequently on intervals of 2h15m - 2h50m.  It is probably bi-modal since it comes up and tries to erupt early in the window (heavy overflow and big bubbles) and it either erupts or drops a few inches and then slowly refills and tries again 25-30 minutes later and it succeeded on all the second attempts.</DIV> <DIV class=plainMail> </DIV> <DIV class=plainMail>The biggest surprise for me was <SPAN>Aurum</SPAN> erupting on intervals of 3h17m - 3h27m - yes only a 10min window for the 5 closed intervals I observed.  Quite remarcable given its usual eratic behavior.  The splashing steadily built up so it was fairly easy to figure out when to stay and watch it.  Whenever it started near-continuous splashing above the rim it was a good time to stay and wait a few minutes for an eruption.</DIV> <DIV class=plainMail> </DIV> <DIV class=plainMail>Dome was active for 4 days (Tues-Fri).  Intervals increased from just over 20 minutes to over 40 minutes as the series progressed.</DIV> <DIV class=plainMail> </DIV> <DIV class=plainMail>I saw one North Goggle minor on Friday (I think).  It was boiling at depth when I walked by and I waited and it erupted on the first rise.  This was about 3 hours after the last Lion eruption in a series.  I watched to see if it had any more eruptions but it boiled up once but failed to erupt and then stopped boiling.</DIV> <DIV class=plainMail> </DIV> <DIV class=plainMail>All Grand eruptions observed during the week (I think it was 5) had 2 bursts.  Not a very big sample size but its nice to come away with a 2 burst average after the recent lean years.</DIV> <DIV class=plainMail> </DIV> <DIV class=plainMail>More to come later but these are the most significant items I can remember off the top of my head now.  I will try and post some more info on Sunday.</DIV> <DIV class=plainMail> </DIV> <DIV class=plainMail>Graham.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></td></tr></table>