Seeing Grand in eruption as I approached the Inn meant there was no reason to continue onward.
Noticed that Great Fountain had been seen nine hours previously, so it made sense to do an early morning trip out there. Arrived to find it in overflow. Fifty minutes later we got an adequate eruption, since it was still calm and the steam obscuring was at a minimum.
Grand could've erupted before noon, but instead we got a pair of Turban Delay intervals that pushed eruption into the same time frame that it's been in the last few days. At least we got a nice two burst eruption. It lasted ten minutes with Vent & Turban quitting after no attempt at a third burst. West Triplet finally erupted after Grand had ended.
2025-Jun-09 : 13:57:01 D3/D5/G2Q 13:57:01 B1 --- d=08m40s 13:57:24 Vent Ovfl 0m23s 13:57:42 Turban 0m41s 14:00:17 Vent 3m16s 14:05:41 P1 8m40s d=19s 14:06:00 B2 8m59s d=01m01s 14:07:01 P2 10m00s 14:08:12 V&T Quit 11m11s ΣB=09m41s ΣD=10m00s * * * * * 11:20:41 d=05m12s D0 11:38:18 Int: 17m37s d=04m29s D1 11:56:52 Int: 18m34s d=03m45s D2 12:28:05 Int: 31m13s d=04m43s D3/D0 12:45:27 Int: 17m22s d=03m07s D3/D1 13:03:12 Int: 17m45s d=04m03s D3/D2 13:20:46 Int: 17m34s d=03m27s D3/D3 13:39:03 Int: 18m17s d=03m32s D3/D4 Grand: 17m58s
The wind had picked up during the Grand wait, so there wasn't much expectation of height in the afteroon Beehive eruption. But it died down a bit, and people at the south end only had to retreat to a little pocket of dryness near Anemone.
Went out about an hour before sunset with a pack filled with all the gear needed for a long nighttime wait. Expected to see Rift in eruption, but it wasn't. Ended up never getting any of that gear out of the pack, as the One Burst Eruption started at the last opportunity to have the sun above the ridge. The eruption ended just as the sun disappeared. This was a fair trade-off-- sunset eruption instead of full moonlight eruption.
It seems that lately we are having Vent & Turban quit even on the relatively short one burst eruption, and this was yet another case.
2025-Jun-09 : 20:33:45 G1Q 20:33:45 B1 --- d=10m23s 20:33:55 Vent Ovfl 0m09s 20:34:07 Turban 0m22s 20:36:46 Vent 3m00s 20:44:09 P1 10m23s 20:45:09 V&T Quit 11m23s ΣD=10m23s * * * * * 19:54:46ie 20:13:35 Int: 18m49s d=04m09s Grand: 20m10s