At first I thought the overnight Grand interval was ten hours, and I had no reason to head out. Then I woke up and redid the math, and decided a twelve hour interval was worth investigating.
I expected to walk up to a full pool, and I did. So much for seeing fog rising above the fog on the webcam. In any case, it was a Turban eruption interval later that we got a Delay that lasted over 33 minutes.
A quick check of Economic showed it to be well below overflow, at the level of the inner rim. There also weren't many puddles in the runoff, and the area beyond the boardwalk was dry.
But like last night, there was only a two Turban eruption interval delay, with the explosive Grand start actually visible due to a slight breeze from the north. Grand ended at exactly eight minutes, followed by a half-minute long pause before the second burst. At 1m07s, that burst wasn't long enough to constitute a Long Burst. About 45 seconds after the end of the second burst, it appears through the steam that Grand was full and starting to push out water. That's when the activty of Turban and Vent picked up, with Vent blasting away. No third burst, and a less than ten minute long Grand eruption ended with Vent & Turban quitting.
2025-Jun-04 : 07:37:21 D2/G2Q 07:37:21 B1 --- d=08m00s 07:37:51 Vent Ovfl 0m30s 07:38:09 Turban 0m48s 07:40:50 Vent 3m29s 07:45:21 P1 8m00s d=34s 07:45:55 B2 8m34s d=01m07s 07:47:02 P2 9m41s 07:48:40 V&T Quit 11m19s ΣB=09m07s ΣD=09m41s * * * * * 06:23:55 d=04m15s 06:58:18 Int: 34m23s d=05m25s D0 07:15:26 Int: 17m08s d=04m21s D1 Grand: 21m55s
Decided that since there wasn't much going on, and it was early, that this might be a good time to go to Fountain Paint Pots and maybe seen an eruption, or at least take a look at the vista enhanced overlook.
There were some periodic Jet eruptions after our arrival, and a half hour later Morning's Thief erupted. I always remembered it as being tall and narrow. This eruption was tall and wide, with much overlap of Morning's pool.
Fourteen minutes later Fountain finally erupted, with two more of the wide and tall Morning's Thief eruptions. Fountain lasted only 28-1/2 minutes. I tried to take video of the whole eruption from the first Morning's Thief, but the wind was directly toward the overlook. And it was cold so there was plenty of steam. Now that it actually is an overlook, will have to try again under better conditions.
In the afternoon we watch ten eruptions of Turban before we finally got a One Burst Grand Eruption. Every one of those was similar to the preceeding, the only change was that the intervals between Turban eruptions got shorter. After the sixth Turban eruption, West Triplet started to erupt. This is the first time I've seen West Triplet have a normal erupion lasting about 1/2 hour that wasn't associated with eruptions of Grand or Rift. At least the One Burst Grand eruption lasted over 11 minutes.
2025-Jun-04 : 16:21:22 G1Q 16:21:14 Vent Ovfl -0m08s 16:21:20 Boop -0m02s 16:21:22 B1 --- d=11m19s 16:21:23 Turban 0m01s 16:24:05 Vent 2m43s 16:32:41 P1 11m19s 16:33:41 V&T Quit 12m19s ΣD=11m19s * * * * * 13:20:11 d=04m28s 13:40:25 Int: 20m14s d=04m15s 13:59:16 Int: 18m51s d=04m00s 14:18:28 Int: 19m12s d=04m06s 14:37:37 Int: 19m09s d=03m44s 14:55:52 Int: 18m15s d=03m22s 14:56:09 West Triplet d=27m03s 15:11:56 Int: 16m04s d=03m29s 15:30:04 Int: 18m08s d=03m43s 15:48:02 Int: 17m58s d=03m39s 16:05:14 Int: 17m12s d=03m26s Grand: 16m08s
After that, it was time to have dinner. And after dinner, Beehive erupted. The wind cooperated and no one on the walkway got wet.
The sky was clear and the moon was beyond the first quarter, with the temperature already in the upper 30s. But only had to wait a couple of Turban eruption intervals before the Grand One Burst Eruption started. Once again, it was a short eruption, at 8m41s, and there was no attempt at a second burst.
2025-Jun-04 : 23:05:10 G1C 23:05:10 B1 --- d=08m41s 22:06:05 Turban 0m55s 23:08:55 Vent 3m45s 23:13:51 P1 8m41s Vent & Turban continue ΣD=08m41s * * * * * 22:23:14 d=04m26s 22:43:40 Int: 20m26s d=04m14s Grand: 21m30s