More from our Pacaya volcano climb

OK, here are some more pics from our Pacaya volcano climb on Saturday. (Don’t miss the pics and video in my last post!) It was a lot of fun. We didn’t go all the way up to the peak/cone… but I don’t think anyone is doing that anymore. It’s a wee [...]

Poking the Lava

Well, we didn’t get to roast the marshmallows… but I did get to poke lava!

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treading carefully

poking the lava

success!

After I’d already poked it a couple times, suffering the immense heat coming off it, Stacey yells to me, “Do it again so I [...]

Roasting marshmallows on lava

Tomorrow morning at 6:00 am (which is 7:00 back in Valparaiso) Stacey and I leave for Pacaya, the only active volcano in Guatemala that they let you climb. From what we’ve been told, it’s about an hour and half to get there, two hours to climb it, then an hour to climb back down. [...]