Volcano easter pics :)

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Went on a rather interesting trip (actually 2, went two days in a row) over the first days of easter, thought I´d spam a few pics in here, if I may :)

The thing is that on 22 march I think, a local volcano started to erupt, it´s located between 2 glaciers so there was a big risk of major flooding at first but the eruption settled down a bit and has been quite "tourist friendly" over the easter. So naturally I took my 60 and took a look :)

We went on my 60 and a friends Isuzu Trooper, both on 38" wheels.


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the first "challenge" was this hill. The total elevation was about a mile from sealevel.

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seeing the volcano coming down from the first glacier.

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this is as far as we went to see the first fissure (they are two).

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this is the second fissure, a bit more dramatic, it actually opened the day before we arrived, some 50 feet from a group of hikers, needles to say some of them must have broken some kind of land-speed record :P

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the trooper, very nice truck.

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posing with the volcano :D

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we went a bit late so we could see the lava in the dark, very beautiful.

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....it was very cold and windy but one could always get warm near the rocks ;)

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and the lava flowed down a nearby valley, making this great lava-fall.
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and one for the road.

Hope you enjoyed the pics :)
and please let me know if they aren´t visible on the thread...
 
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very :cool:
 
truly remarkable!!!!! This must have been truly amazing to witness in person. Awesome to know there was a cruiser parked right there while this was going off.
Thanks for sharing the great photos and the experience.
 
way cool dude .. what it feels .. it's one of the most powerful things in the world .. the magma !
 
very cool
 
Here are more pics: think you must have a facebook account to see them, they´re having a photo competition of the volcano :)
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The sounds it makes is kinda like a really huge steam train taking off, and if you talk alot around it you´re spitting out tephra all the time.

and some more info.
Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, Iceland : Natural Hazards

the last time this volcano erupted it lasted almost 2 years...

oh yea and some webcams: (we´re on GMT)
Eyjafjallajökull frá Fimmvörðuhálsi
Eyjafjallajökull frá Þórólfsfelli
 
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Whats the thought there, will it continue and what about the other volcano that has erupted with it before. Mike

Your guess is as good as any, but in historic times everytime this volcano has erupted the bigger nastier volcano "Katla" has erupted a few months later...

a better pic of the lavafall :)

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Photo taken by Geir Sig.
 
Is this the culprit of all the ash over in Europe?

I think it is! He mentioned that "in historic times everytime this volcano has erupted the bigger nastier volcano "Katla" has erupted a few months later..." Read on CNN or somewhere that that's true of of Eyjafjallajökull, the one that's been causing all the problems.


Awesome pictures man. Thanx for posting.
 
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