With Rift still in erution when I left, I expected a long interval. Came out around the 7h45m mark and found Grand to be full. An hour later it was still full, and then it had a Turban Delay interval. This lead to three more Turban eruptions before Grand finally had a good fill.
Even then, Grand took its time and waited well over a minute before starting to erupt. That burst lasted less than eight minutes. But once again, any hopes of three or more bursts were dashed by a second burst lasting over 2-1/2 minutes.
2025-May-27 : 07:46:33 D4/T2*Q 07:45:23 Turban -1m10s 07:45:37 Vent Ovfl -0m56s 07:46:33 B1 --- d=07m49s 07:48:42 Vent 2m09s 07:54:22 P1 7m49s d=35s 07:54:58 B2 8m25s d=02m39s 07:57:37 P2 11m04s 07:58:29 V&T Quit 11m56s ΣB=10m28s ΣD=11m04s * * * * * 05:29:07 d=03m47s 05:49:40 Int: 20m33s d=03m47s 06:08:48 Int: 19m08s d=03m37s 06:38:17 Int: 29m29s d=04m24s D0 06:54:22 Int: 16m05s d=03m18s D1 07:10:25 Int: 16m03s d=03m29s D2 07:28:02 Int: 17m37s d=04m03s D3 Turban: 17m21s
Coming back, there were two bison right next to the bike trail below Castle. One wanders off to the north/left to bed down near the trees. The other just stupidly stood right on the edge of the trail for 15 minutes until finally shuffling off to bed down just far enough away that we could go by.
Around noon went out to catch an eruption of Uncertain, and didn't have to wait long. Even though Sawmill had started, Uncertain started overflowing heavily and within two minutes Uncertain's eruption started.
Returned to the cabin to reconfigure for the wait at Grand, and just when I was ready to leave found a bison grazing away next a cabin across the road for our cabin. Got out of there quickly, only to encounter a second bison by the biketrail across from the store. At least there was a bypass available.
The wait at Grand started out nice enough, but over the next two hours of Turban eruptions the weather deteriorated. It got quite windy with slowly building showers. The wind knocked Grand's water column well to the southeast, but the direction didn't take it over the boardwalk. We got another two burst eruption, once again with a pause lasting nearly a minute. It wasn't long after the eruption that the wind died down completely and the rain stopped.
2025-May-27 : 15:30:42 G2C 15:30:37 Boop -0m05s 15:30:42 B1 --- d=08m35s 15:30:47 Vent Ovfl 0m05s 15:31:00 Turban 0m18s 15:33:45 Vent 3m03s 15:39:17 P1 8m35s d=57s 15:40:14 B2 9m32s d=40s 15:40:54 P2 10m12s Vent & Turban continue ΣB=09m15s ΣD=10m12s * * * * * 13:36:10 d=05m08s 13:54:12 Int: 18m02s d=04m25s 14:14:24 Int: 20m12s d=04m18s 14:33:43 Int: 19m19s d=04m07s 14:52:56 Int: 19m13s d=03m33s 15:11:38 Int: 18m42s d=03m36s Grand: 19m04s
There was still plenty of light as was locking up my bike. I looked over to see Sawmill erupting, and saw Grand start to do the same. The interval was under six hours. Walked over to see the rest of the eruption, which turned out to be another two burst with a long pause and a fairly long second burst.
2025-May-27 : 21:23:28 2Q 21:23:28 B1 --- d=09m15s 21:32:43 P1 9m15s d=52s 21:33:35 B2 10m07s d=1m04s 21:34:39 P2 11m11s 21:35:53 V&T Quit ΣB=10m07s ΣD=11m11s