For the morning Grand, once again had a short wait for the One Burst Grand eruption. West Triplet did overflow for a while after the eruption, but this time there wasn't any convection or thumping.
2024-Sep-03:10:07:45 G1Q 10:07:39 Boop -0m05s 10:07:45 B1 --- d=10m06s 10:09:13 Turban 1m28s 10:11:26 Vent 3m41s 10:17:52 P1 10m06s 10:19:24 V&T Quit 11m38s 10:38:29 V&T Restart 30m44s ΣD=10m06s * * * * * 09:27:51 d=04m12s 09:45:11 Int: 17m20s d=04m35s Grand: 22m34s
Going out for the next Grand eruption, as I passed Crested Pool I noticed that it seemed the ospreys were making a bit of noise. Then I saw the reason-- there was an eagle flying low headed upstream.
The wait at Grand was a long one. As we approached the eight hour mark, Grand finally looked like it might erupt, only to suddenly drop and then sit for long enough for it to be a Turban Delay interval. As expected, Grand finally had it's One Burst Eruption four Turban eruption intervals later. After the eruption, I noticed that the runoff from West Triplet was wet, indicating that West Triplet probably had a decent overflow during the Grand eruption.
2024-Sep-03:19:02:00 D4/T1Q 19:01:17 Turban -0m43s 19:01:23 Vent Ovfl -0m37s 19:02:00 B1 --- d=10m19s 19:04:24 Vent 2m23s 19:12:19 P1 10m19s 19:13:15 V&T Quit 11m15s ΣD=10m19s * * * * * 16:08:31 d=03m35s 16:28:23 Int: 19m52s d=03m52s 16:47:09 Int: 18m46s d=03m47s 17:06:18 Int: 19m09s d=03m33s 17:25:07 Int: 18m49s d=03m42s 17:53:27 Int: 28m20s d=04m42s D0 18:11:04 Int: 17m37s d=03m24s D1 18:28:13 Int: 17m09s d=03m25s D2 18:45:48 Int: 17m35s d=03m26s D3 Turban: 15m28s
Before the Turban Delay, Beehive's Indicator was called over the radio. Not only did this cause a mass evacuation of most of the gazers who had been waiting, but it appeared that many of the visitors followed them, as the benches seemed empty.
After Grand erupted the Sawmill Group was in the proper state for an Uncertain eruption. Uncertain was noisy, but there wasn't much splashing. After waiting about half an hour, suddenly Uncertain's vent filled with water, and with 15 or so seconds, the eruption started. As the Uncertain eruption was ending, Sawmill started to erupt. That eruption lasted for about 50 seconds, and then all was quiet.