<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>Hello,    Thank you Tom for your report!  I'm so glad that you and Byron were able to see the eruption from the beginning - what a treat!    Your description reminded me of a Fan & Mortar that I saw on October 19, 2012.  Below I have given a piece of what I wrote about that eruption. "I arrived at Fan & Mortar between 1510 and 1515... When I got there, River was already on."  Gold & Angle's apparent starts came soon after.   "At 1531, High filled with water and started to go somewhat steadily.   Gold had water for a minute or two and then Gold disappeared.   High fluctuated between no water and 1-2 feet of water for a time.  After about 5 minutes, it rose to 3 feet - and Gold was still absent.  High continued to fluctuate, and Gold filled with water at about 1538.  Gold rose to about 1 foot, and that was the highest that I actually saw it."  The vents got steamy and hard to see until, "Main Vent splashed - the size of splash that would have been good sized during a pause, but much smaller than I have ever seen right before an eruption.  After several seconds, Main Vent surged and the eruption was on at 1543!" Go Fan & Mortar! Polly Panos -----Original Message----- >From: Michael Goldberg <goldbeml@ucmail.uc.edu> >Sent: May 5, 2016 6:21 PM >To: Geyser Observation Reports <geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu> >Subject: Re: [Geysers] 5/4/16 F&M 1240 > >Hi Tom, > >Thanks very much for the report. > >I'm not well versed in F&M's habits in the last 5-10 years, but my >impressions of the video clips are: > >1236 -- It looks odd to me, but I think F&M has experimented with the >"high vent lock" in some of its more recent activity. I would also guess >that it's been responsible for more than its share of "false locks." > >1238 -- Sure, Gold vent isn't very tall, but that kind of activity would >get me excited every time. All three vents (High, Gold, Angle) are nearly >continuous, Gold is full of water, and I'll ignore the fact that Angle is >jetting mostly steam. Never liked Angle much anyway... > >Glad to hear that the rocks are active again. Not surprised to hear that >they are still being creative with their preplay. > >Michael Goldberg >michael.goldberg@uc.edu > > >On Thu, 5 May 2016, Tom Carberry wrote: > >> Byron and I got an interesting walk-up F&M today. >> River and High were both ie when we got there around 12:30. High was very strong. Nearly constant to 6' or more. Only twice, that I recall, did High pause at all, and it came back stronger both times. Just before the eruption it was steady at 10' or so and landing in Main vent. >> But Gold never got above 1' or so until just prior to the eruption, and was mostly just off. >> And Angle was a fumarole. Odd. At least I thought so. >> So, for most of 10 minutes it looked like a High solo major. >> >> Mortar 1243. F&M duration 13. >> I had my critter lens on, so couldn't get any wide shots, but I did get some very brief videos. (Which may not actually be available, as UTube still claims to be "processing" them as I send this.) >> >> Fan 1236. High dwindling toward 2nd (High vent) pause. [River vent was on the entire time AFAIK.]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tyxbALh6_RE >> Fan 1238. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VzLQzSHvm10 >> Mortar start 1243.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3vgppBTsTR0 >> >> Fan 1249.https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b4Dlc0LvPR4 >> >> May the fourth be with you, >> Tom Carberry >> >_______________________________________________ >Geysers mailing list >Geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu >https://lists.wallawalla.edu/mailman/listinfo/geysers </geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu></goldbeml@ucmail.uc.edu></body>