Once again, was awakened by a call for Beehive's Indicator, this time before sunrise. Got over to Geyser Hill with plenty of time, but realized that I'd forgotten to bring my umbrella. Fortunately, didn't need it, as it was mostly calm and I could move fast enough to avoid the slowly migrating spray zone. We were the only two people over there.
With no report on the overnight Grand eruption, I went out at around the twelve hour mark. Turns out I was a bit early, as I overheard some NPS personnel who were downloading data say it was at 04:04. After an hour of longer Turban eruptions, there a 36 minute Turban Delay interval. From there it was a wait of five more Turban eruption intervals before the One Burst Grand eruption. This was a 9-1/2 minute long eruption where Vent & Turban continued afterwards. During the eruption, West Triplet started to erupt, but finished before the Grand eruption ended.
2024-Jun-05:11:35:58 D5/T1C 11:34:40 Turban -1m18s 11:35:53 Boop -0m05s 11:35:58 B1 --- d=09m34s 11:38:32 Vent 2m34s 11:45:32 P1 9m34s Vent & Turban continue ΣD=09m34s * * * * * 08:42:42 d=03m57s 09:05:21 Int: 22m39s d=04m21s 09:27:04 Int: 21m43s d=04m38s 10:04:49 Int: 37m45s d=04m47s D0 10:21:38 Int: 16m49s d=04m15s D1 10:40:43 Int: 19m05s d=03m50s D2 11:00:50 Int: 20m07s d=03m45s D3 11:17:18 Int: 16m28s d=03m40s D4 Turban: 17m22s
Decided I should try and wait for something at the northern end of the Upper Basin, and as I rode up, Grotto Fountain was boiling up nicely. It didn't erupt, but I waited the hour for the next opportunity, where Grotto Fountain and Grotto did erupt. The wind shifted just enough so that my camera was not in the best place to record the activity, but I didn't want to move and adjust it while recording.
A few hours later arrived back out to Grand to find West Triplet late in an eruption. That turned out to be important, as over the next three hours Grand made no real attempt to erupt. There was a series of ten Turban eruptions where stayed pretty constant at around 3-1/2 minutes, with two exceptions where the durations were less than three.
Finally West Triplet started to erupt again and Grand went into a Turban Delay interval. At the 29minute mark, with the sun set, Grand finally erupted with an explosive start. This gave us an over 11 minute One Burst Eruption, followed almost immediately by the start of and eruption of Rift.
2024-Jun-05:20:55:17 D0/G1Q 20:55:16 Vent Ovfl -0m01s 20:55:17 B1 --- d=11m28s 20:55:54 Turban 0m37s 20:57:40 Vent 2m23s 21:06:45 P1 11m28s 21:07:26 V&T Quit 12m09s ΣD=11m28s * * * * * 17:43:16 d=04m15s 18:02:49 Int: 19m33s d=04m02s 18:21:25 Int: 18m36s d=03m32s 18:41:07 Int: 19m42s d=03m29s 18:57:25 Int: 16m18s d=02m43s 19:15:59 Int: 18m34s d=03m16s 19:34:17 Int: 18m18s d=03m33s 19:52:18 Int: 18m01s d=03m31s 20:09:34 Int: 17m16s d=03m32s 20:26:15 Int: 16m41s d=02m55s 20:33:45 West Triplet Grand: 29m02s