After last night, it was welcome to wake up to clear skies and no wind, although there was heavy frost on all the vehicles in the cabin area. Once again, Sawmill started during the walk from Castle. Spasmodic was high, and starting to overflow. Belgian Pool was full clear to the rim.
West Triplet also showed evidence that it had overflowed a bit, but was now well below that.
The wait for Grand started out well enough, but just after the six hour mark of the interval we had a heavy fill, strong Turban eruption with Vent overflowing during that time. This meant we were going to have another long wait.
After the sixth Turban eruption later came the announcement of water in Beehive's Indicator followed by the start. Of course Grand erupted on with the next opportunity. This One Burst Eruption lasted less than ten minutes but Vent & Turban still quit afterwards.
2025-May-23 : 13:01:13 V7/T1Q 13:00:25 Turban -0m48s 13:00:56 Vent Ovfl -0m17s 13:01:13 B1 --- d=09m35s 13:03:44 Vent 2m31s 13:10:48 P1 9m35s 13:12:18 V&T Quit 11m05s ΣD=09m35s * * * * * 10:17:00 d=05m39s 10:35:29 Int: 18m29s d=04m20s 10:54:32 Int: 19m03s d=03m42s V0 Vent ovfl: 10:55:43 11:10:30 Int: 15m58s d=03m28s V1 11:29:44 Int: 19m14s d=03m26s V2 11:48:48 Int: 19m04s d=04m14s V3 12:08:31 Int: 19m43s d=04m10s V4 12:26:26 Int: 17m55s d=03m39s V5 12:43:10 Int: 16m44s d=03m31s V6 Turban: 17m39s
Following that I checked on Economic, which was unchanged from the night before. It's hot and overflowing, but needs something more for there to be some activity. As I came back past Grand I noted that West Triplet was in a steady overflow.
The Sawmill eruption I saw start lasted well over four hours. An hour or so after it finally quit I went back out to see if Uncertain might erupt. It was also well inside the Castle eruption window. It wasn't long before Castle started, and the eruption lasted 2m52s. It slopped for a while, but after that was much quieter than many post-minor periods I've seen.
Uncertain didn't seem to do much until shortly after the Castle eruption when Sawmill suddenly had a 50s long eruption. It was still quiet for the better part of half an hour before it started to have periods of overflow. A couple more of these, and it started erupting. That eruption was followed about a minute later by the start of Sawmill.
As we were leaving I noticed that Oblong was putting up a lot of steam. A change of position confirmed that it was in eruption.
The next Grand eruption followed much of the pattern of the previous eruptions-- a long wait before the One Burst Grand. Waited exactly two hours as the Turban intervals and durations got shorter. After a Turban interval that was less than 16 minutes, we got a longer one, and during that extra time Grand finally started looking full with waves. The One Burst Eruption lasted almost 10-1/2 minutes, and despite being longer than the Grand eruption earlier in the day, Vent & Turban continued.
2025-May-23 : 20:53:20 T1C 20:52:30 Turban -0m50s 20:52:47 Vent Ovfl -0m33s 20:53:13 Boop -0m07s 20:53:20 B1 --- d=10m28s 20:55:42 Vent 2m22s 21:03:48 P1 10m28s Vent & Turban continue ΣD=10m28s * * * * * 19:05:18 d=04m35s 19:24:03 Int: 18m45s d=04m13s 19:43:44 Int: 19m41s d=03m39s 20:01:22 Int: 17m38s d=04m03s 20:18:53 Int: 17m31s d=03m08s 20:34:35 Int: 15m42s d=03m25s Turban: 17m55s
Sawmill was in eruption when I arrived, and was still erupting when I left. Belgian Pool had recovered and was just below full. West Triplet was overflowing after the Grand eruption.