<head><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style></head><body id="compText"><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style><style>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</style><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">Addendum:    After Grand, I stopped at West Triplet to see if it was going to start and then made a trip to the car to divest myself of my morning cold weather gear and replenish supplies.  (And of course I did a bit of visiting along the way.)  When I arrived at Fan & Mortar, River, Gold & Angle were already on.  In retrospect, the vents had water that I would have been happy with if they had followed an event cycle.  Definitely not high, but just nice steady water levels.  (Of course, I have seen those same water levels on many regular - nothing happening - cycles.)  The other clue that I missed was that it had taken quite a while for Gold to come on after River Vent started.    A visitor, who had just come from Grand, asked me a question about if it was worthwhile to see other geysers, or if they were really all pretty much the same.  (One of those questions that gets you feeling emotional about the geysers!)  If I had known what was going to happen, I would have just told him to wait a few minutes and then decide!  But instead I was giving him information about the large predictables . . .    When suddenly John & Will jumped up from their seats and moved to the right to get a better look, I saw that the steam had increased and I moved over to see High and Gold starting to build.  After stunned watching for a several seconds, I said, "We've got to make a call!"  In my first call, I said that we had had no events, but that the vents had suddenly started to build.  High went to about 3 feet and steady, with Gold about 2 feet, very thick, and also steady.  A couple of minutes later I called that High was steady at 5 feet.  Gold was still at 2, maybe 3 feet and strong.  It was only about a minute later that East Vent exploded into the strongest start that I have seen.  Main Vent was right behind it, and I saw Mortar already at good height by the time that I could grab my pack and head out of the spray for the bridge.  That had all taken place in maybe 5 minutes.  I guess that the geysers were just ready!    [Those of you who know me well will know that the author of the previous report used quite a bit of "poetic license" with my words!  Hmmmmm... ]    With my poncho finally on, I had a wonderful time alternately playing in the soaking spray and admiring how beautiful Fan was in the sunlight.  I think that it is safe to say that the gazers and visitors there thoroughly enjoyed the eruption!  The first pause was at 1203.  I did not get an accurate duration.  When the eruption had slowed, I had Will think through what he had seen from the time that he had gotten down there after Grand until the eruption, since it was his first F & M.  The one thing that he didn't mention here was that Angle was intermittent after River turned off shortly after his arrival.    I'll send information about event cycles Saturday and Sunday morning in a later e-mail. Go Fan & Mortar! Polly Panos    -----Original Message----- From: Will Boekel <wolveslax65@comcast.net> Sent: Sep 30, 2012 11:24 PM To: Listserve <geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu> Subject: [Geysers] Fan and Mortar 9/30/2012 <zzzhtml><zzzhead></zzzhead> <zzzbody dir="ltr"> <div dir="ltr"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> I finally got my first Fan and Mortar today (9/30/2012)!!! Below are the details that I saw since I was the only one there when the eruption cycle started, Polly is going to add more details later also.   11:09 – Shortly after arriving at F&M, River and Gold were off but Angle was on and Bottom Vent was spritzing but was nowhere near a full eruption. ~11:16 – Everything shut off. Bottom vent may have had a few really small splashes when all of the other vents in the system went off. 11:24 – River on 11:33 – Angle and Gold on. Angle and Gold came on at about the same time but I am pretty sure I saw a splash or two in Angle before Gold by a few seconds. At this point there were still no splashes in Main (not even a lot of steam, only very small wisps) and Bottom was only spritzing to about 3 / 4 the way up the rock it hits. Polly would have a better description on the water levels, but I would say they were nothing to special than what I had seen in the previous event cycle. ~11:42-11:43 – Water in High and Gold suddenly became very good. High was steady at about 5-7 ft and Gold was about 3-4 ft steady. Seeing that made me forget to see what angle was doing. 11:44 – Polly radio call saying F&M is thinking about going and to think about getting your butt down to the rock pile. 11:48 – FAN AND MORTAR!!!! East vent initiated and was soon followed by only a few seconds by Main and Mortar. Polly has the duration for the eruption.   During the cycle no splashing was seen in Main Vent until the eruption had started.   In the end all I have to say is WOW!!! Fan & Mortar are my new favorite geysers. Water went everywhere. Fan hit Norris pools and Mortar hit the bridge pretty well also.   Link to the video that was started just after East vent initiated and it only has the start part: <a href="http://youtu.be/fuM2EV8SVx8?hd=1">http://youtu.be/fuM2EV8SVx8?hd=1</a>   Go F&M!!,   Will Boekel  </div></div></zzzbody></zzzhtml> </geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu></wolveslax65@comcast.net></blockquote></body>