climb a volcano

Ok…so I stood at the bottom of it and ziplined past it but since the Arenal Volcano National Park in north-central Costa Rica had landslides that evacuated the area the previous day—I was ok with that and decided to consider this close enough to check it off LOL

As part of my Scout plan I decided myself to put a big challenge and reach it before I finish my “Trooper” time before I became a “Rover Scout”

Well I didn’t completed this goal as intended, I did it when I was already a Rover Scout but I guess once I had the chance to do it, this factor was just a detail. The whole experience was great!

Going to Costa Rica in June and this one of the things I really want to do there.

The pure beauty of mother nature. The volcano is active but remains dormant.

I was in the Navy and our ship just pulled out of Singapore.

Checking my map I mentioned to the skipper that we could take a short detour and cruise past the famous Krakatoa volcano

he was so excited that he decided to stop the ship and see if anyone wanted to ashore with him.

It was technically illegal but the skipper and 5 other guys went and we climbed to the top of the steaming cone.

Since them I have climbed 4others including the famous Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. It has an awesome crater lake.

In Tenerife. I climbed it with my Dad over twenty years ago. We both had a coffee with a tot of brandy on the way up and sniffed at the sulphur at the top.

Good memory.

Mt. Bromo – Fanastic.

Volcan Pacaya (in Guatemala)

Okay, it was not doing this when I hiked it, otherwise they would not have let me go up there! As it was, we were not able to get to the top – there was plenty of steam and smoke coming out of the crater, and a group of French tourists had been seriously hurt by a surge of hot gases six weeks before I arrived. Due to liability, we couldn’t get up to the crater. But it was still an amazing, fantastic view. Kind of a rough climb up, but I am acclimated to high altitudes living where I do, so it was not all that bad. Inexperienced hikers should be prepared for a workout, though.

This was totally, totally worth it. The view from up there is really spectacular.

i was on aethna a year ago, it´s mainly a pile of dust and stones, but it was worth the effort, for i always wondered how a vulcano looks like

‘Climbed’ Mt. Vesuvius in italy with my old mates from school on a hot spring day in April.

Excellent view both down the vulcano and around it.