In the 4 years I have been playing hide-and-seek with you all, I have met many different kinds of volcanoes… small ones, tall ones, cold ones, bold ones, and even bald ones…I have discovered that I am a sucker for the rough rugged ones who appear to have had “interesting” pasts. This edifice doesn’t just…

Here we are again. It’s Wednesday, and I am virtually-hiding in a virtual-volcano. This is how I spend part of my week. The other part I spend pinning little pink webcams all over this virtual-Earth. It occurs to me that I would be much harder to find if there wasn’t so much volcano surveillance going…

The first Tuesday of November has come and gone, and this li’l volcanohead is about ready to sink into a mental and emotional caldera.  I need to regroup…get back with my roots…seek the sagacity of my elders… ..or maybe I just need to put some physical distance between myself and the North American continent.  (Yeah..that…

My stay on Hokkaido was fun, but me being a rootless volcano, it soon was time to go north with wings on my feet..or something kind of like that…which brought me here to this volcano with his cold notched peak. Also I wanted to wave hello to his rowdy girl-next-door, who I dropped in on…

I enjoyed spring last week, but now I have returned to autumn again, and, speaking of “fall”, this old stratovolcano is not the site of a volcanohead crash-landing. It was this way before I got here. We’re still playing by the same rules as the past few challenges, and I have updated the New &…

There are several fundamental differences between this volcano and the one I hid in last week. Two things this volcano doesn’t have are ships coming and going all hours of the day and night, and nosy volcano webcams.  I’m pretty sure neither could be found within 150 km of here. We’ll be using the same…

Flying into this volcano’s summit area was pretty easy..aside from dodging a flurry of ballistics from below. The good news is that this landing zone is easy to find at night or in fog (or vog) because it is usually well lit and kind of noisy.  Remind me when this challenge is over to get…