September 6, 2012 |
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When I plotted the last hike, I noticed there were some crack that I hadn't seen the first time. So I went out and checked those out too (green line). I really wanted to follow the cracks all the way up to Mauna Ulu, but I was denied by a field of a'a lava... |
10:51 AM @ "Park" Mauna Ulu. The cracks that the eruption started from run from here to there... |
11:10 AM @ *044 |
10:53 AM @ *002 Mauna Loa with Halema'uma'u erupting in front of it. And my truck... |
11:11 AM @ * 045 Looking back... |
10:53 AM @ *002 Looking to my left toward *130 at some of the mounds of spatter that came from fountains of lava |
11:12 AM @ *051 |
10:53 AM @ * 002 The lava fountained out of giant cracks in the ground... |
10:54 AM @ *007 This became a sea of lava that crusted over and was sprinkled with cinder... |
10:56 AM @ *009 Lava erupted from these cracks and flowed back in... |
10:56 AM Leading straight to Mauna Ulu... |
10:57 AM @ *013 Looking back... |
10:57 @ *013 Looking forward... |
10:59 AM @ *018 Looking over at the spatter ramparts from the main crack |
11:01 AM @ *023 Notice this crack isn't rounded. It didn't have hot lava entering or exiting. This one must have happened later after things had cooled down... |
Looking back... |
Looking forward... |
11:04 AM @ *028 |
11:06 @ *029 |
11:07 AM @ *034 |
11:08 AM @ *034 More rounded stuff indicates hot flowing lava... |
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11:10 AM @ *040 |