Saturday, December 23, 2017
Lava October 19, 2017
That's what I saw today while hiking out to the lava. It was a nice day out, lava was pretty active in the field and upslope at the base of the Pali. Cloudy skies and passing showers made it a perfect day to be out, topped by a very vibrant rainbow at the end. The pressure was up and Pele pushed forward this morning, some of the surface flows very extremely hot and fluid. Earlier that morning I measured more than 1600F in one of the breakouts, some spots were probably hotter. It was a nice day to be out and Pele provided some nice flows this morning
#lava #61g #pahoehoe #lavahike
Lava Rivulet |
Flow field and night sky |
Pele showed me her heart |
Me trying to catch the rainbow in the flow field |
Lava October 9, 2017
That's what we saw today out at the lava. It was a beautiful day with an amazing sunrise and nice thin wispy clouds. Lava was flowing strong at the base of the Pali with some flows still coming down. My group had a great time and enjoyed Pele's creation.
There were breakouts at many spots simultaneously and it kept going strong while we were out. There was almost no plume cloud at the ocean entry again, but it could also mean that there was a lot of activity.
I might check with the boat captains.
#lava #61g #pahoehoe #lavahike
Lava sunrise |
view towards the Pali |
Lava oozing out |
Lava toe close-up |
Lava October 6, 2017
When I checked the webcam at 2:30am that morning, I saw that a huge river of lava was coming down the Pali. So I decided to climb up to the Pali and check it out. I literally ran the 3.5 miles up and was rewarded with A'a channels, very hot and fluid pahoehoe rivers and a lot of lava from several tube ruptures. It was almost unreal.
It was a great early morning up there with a lot of lava and a setting moon around sunrise.
#lava #61g #pahoehoe #lavahike
Pahoehoe Rivers
Tube rupture
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