<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:o = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19453"></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=role_body bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 rightMargin=7 topMargin=7> Tuesday, September 3, 2013 <o:p> </o:p> This geyser report includes eruptions I saw and eruption times reported via FRS radio. <o:p> </o:p> Today’s big news:  The trifecta eruptions of Fountain, Morning, and Morning’s Thief just before 1 AM.  Fountain started at 0057 with Morning and Morning’s Thief starting at 0058.  Duration for Morning was 56 minutes, while Fountain lasted nearly 3 hours with a duration of 176 minutes.  The next observed activity from the group was a visitor report of Fountain at 0940 with a duration of only 7 minutes. <o:p> </o:p> I spent about 90 minutes in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Biscuit</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Basin</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> today, mainly taking intervals of Jewel, East Mustard, and “Outpost.”  I also managed to get one closed interval of 34 minutes for “Sentry” and one eruption from “Yellow Bubbler” which lasted for at least 12 minutes.  Avoca Spring, <st1:place w:st="on">Island</st1:place>, Rusty, and Salt and Pepper were also active, but I did not record eruption times for them. <o:p> </o:p> Jewel intervals ranged from 7 to 9 minutes with an average of 8 minutes, 22 seconds for 11 closed intervals. <o:p> </o:p> East Mustard intervals also ranged from 7 to 9 minutes, but with a slightly lower average of 8 minutes, 0 seconds for 10 closed intervals.  (I actually had a total of 11 closed intervals, but the first eruption was an “ie” time so I excluded it from the calculations.  If I used the “ie” time as the start time for the first eruption, the average interval would be 7 minutes, 55 seconds for 11 closed intervals.) <o:p> </o:p> “Outpost” intervals ranged from 4 to 6 minutes with an average of 5 minutes, 9 seconds for 7 closed intervals between 1208 and 1244.  I recorded some additional eruptions beyond 1244 but there may be a missed eruption as I had moved down closer to Jewel at that point, making Outpost more difficult to observe.  The actual eruption times for Jewel, East Mustard, “Outpost” and “Sentry” are included in the report below. <o:p> </o:p> Eruption times: <o:p> </o:p> Fountain:  0057 d=176, 0940vr d=7, 1527 d=30 Morning:  0058 d=56 Morning’s Thief:  0058 d=56 Twig:  0123 Castle:  0147 (major), 1447 (major) Grand:  0602, 1546 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Riverside</st1:place></st1:City>:  0613ns, 1227, 1839 Sawmill:  0642ie    1239 Depression:  0650ie, 1102, 1730 Aurum:  0914    1647 Oblong:  0917, 1344, 1852 Daisy:  0951, 1222ns, 1500, 1736 Pink Cone:  1018 Grotto Fountain:  1022 Grotto:  1031 Three Crater:  1105ie    1336ie    1642ie Flood:  1135ie Lion:  1145, 1255, 1401, 1507 Jewel:  1156, 1205, 1214, 1221, 1229, 1237, 1246, 1254, 1302, 1310, 1319, 1328 East Mustard:  1158ie, 1205, 1213, 1221, 1229, 1236, 1244, 1252, 1301, 1309, 1317, 1325 “Outpost”:  1204ie, 1208, 1213, 1218, 1222, 1227, 1233, 1238, 1244    1254, 1300, 1307ie “Sentry”:  1219, 1253 “Yellow Bubbler”:  1244ie (ended at 1256, d>=12) Great Fountain:  1245 p=6 Beehive’s Indicator:  1243ie    1625ns Jelly:  1215, 1305, 1400, 1501 West Triplet:  1411, 1738ie <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Split</st1:place></st1:City> Cone:  1423ie Spa:  1613ie Rift:  1738ie Artemisia:  1712 White Dome:  2021, 2042 <o:p> </o:p> Dave Whinery</BODY></HTML>