Hostel style lodge for hikers
Lodge provided shuttle drop-off and pick-up
Bright and early, 7am
The group of 9 starts out
A little chilly, but warmed up quick after you get moving
Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’...
Cool little waterfall
Zoomed in
Onward to the volcano!
Playing with exposure because of the bright sun
Different exposure
The trail was easy in some places and really hard in others
Sweet tights.
They said at the hiking store that everyone would be dressed like this
Keep them doggies rollin’, Rawhide!
There were some paths to keep us out of the protected local water
Volcano action
The right half of the last picture
Kevin
The speedy dudes
One of 3 bathroom stops
The calm before the storm
Far in the distance behind us
Look close, people start climbing up and up and up
Saw this sweet skull looking rock which I think is in King Kong
Close up skull rock
Climbing the rocks
Overlooking the trail behind us
I heard there were over 2000 people that did this hike that day
If you look close, you can see the trail in the flat area
Closer of where we just came from
Jee Young posing
Jalil walking out of
heaven apparently
Martha and Jee
Getting closer to the volcano
Finally at the top of the
steep rock part
A huge fly UFO was circling around us.
There is a path to go up to the volcano, but it’s another 3 hours
The side of the volcano, and if you look close, you can see people
The volcano behind us, the land flattened out to look like Mars
More Mars
Half way through the Mars crater
If you look at the ridge ahead, we had to climb that and go over
Top of the ridge
Playing with the filters to make it look like Mars
The way it really looked
Still climbing
If you look close, you can see the path we just took in the middle
Looking behind as we leave the volcano
More views
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Jalil and Mount Doom
Ahead of us was this amazing new view
Playing with exposures
Close up
Sulfur emissions
Over the top of the next ridge we can see parts of two lakes
On the way down to the lakes, you can almost ski down the loose rock
Emerald Lake
Emerald Lake is completely sulfur
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Me and Emerland Lake
Me the other direction
A good rest
Kevin has many talents
Pete and Martha coming down, Martha’s knee is hurting
Kevin in super artsy
photoman mode
Emerald Lake
The idiots broke the “Don’t touch water” rule with their gross feet
Looking back on E. Lake, now small and just under the volcano
Over the next ridge we can see Lake Rotoaira
The trail turns into hard dirt and lots and lots of downhill
Great view
More view
On the trail, which was so much downhill and steps, calves = dead
More steam vents
Turned in forest in like 40 steps after hour 7
Me
Following the group
Finally done and waiting for the shuttle. Sooo tired...
... as you can see.
I drank 4 of these on the trail
Shot of our trail from the shuttle going back to the lodge
We started on the right side, ended on left side of this picture
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Scott looking tired
Cool blue
Stop at the rock stream
Playing with exposure
Stream where Gollum was filmed
View from stream over cliff
Scott on cliff
Word.
Jee Young playing
Gollum in the stream
Crazy crazy Jee
Down the trail, looking
back on the cliff
Playing with exposure
More playing
Final
