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Volcano National Park Landscape of many recent eruptions.
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| Steam vents | Trail along caldera edge | Chain of Craters Road | |
| Lava views | Roaming the old lavafield | End of the road | |
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This landscape deserved more of our time. This heap of snapshots only hints at its variety. The park is completely different than that I visited in 1978, the park of that time mostly buried. The volcano continually makes it over. The untypical weather was exceptionally unwelcoming. | |||
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Close to the start of the "Chain of Craters" road is the
steam vents and the Calder Edge trail. The heat was welcome on a very cold day. | ||
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_20mar01-1437_k.jpg On this cold day, hot air is welcome.  |
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This it not a lake (of water), but a cauldron of of
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The most travelled attraction. Many people probably do not leave their cars;
The landscape looks forbidding. Walking on the lava is dangerous unless one is sure-footed. Unweathered lava is like congealed smashed glass. | ||
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_20mar01-1356_k.jpg It is raining and extremely windy. There is no place outside to eat lunch.  |
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_20mar01-1845_n.jpg Note: I (BW) would never have taken such a picture of a young woman.  |
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Lava assumes many form, depending upon age and the way it was emitted.
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_20mar01-1634_k.jpg Moistened by rain.  |
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The lava of decades ago is weathered and less treacherous.
Bits of the older park road peeks out where the lava did not consume it. | ||
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_20mar01-1738_k.jpg A park road of an earlier era, a couple eruptions back.  |
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The lava landscape inclines down toward the sea.
The lava is older and more weathered. We are losing daylight. | ||
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