Puhimau pit crater along the Chain of Craters Road....pit craters are formed when underground lava drains away and the overlying ground collapses into the resulting void....April 10, 2006
Tree mold with piece of original charcoaled tree still in place....tree molds are formed when surface lava engulfs a forest and then drains away to lower elevations....lava cools around the trees and the wood burns away leaving its mold in the solidified lava....April 10, 2006
Tree mold with pieces of the original tree still in place....April 10, 2006
Rift along Chain of Craters Road...the section on the right has sunk about 20 feet relative to the section on the left....April 29, 2006
Devil's Throat pit crater along the Chain of Craters Road....May 25, 2006
Hiiaka pit crater along Chain of Craters Road....May 25, 2006
Clump of tree molds about eight feet high...May 28, 2006
Tree molds, piece of original tree still in place in one of them...lava flow from the 1970's....May 28, 2006
West side of Kane Nui o Hamo shield cone...located between Pu'u O'o and Mauna Ulu along the Kilauea East Rift Zone...the cinder area along the lower left is from the 1969 eruption...June 6, 2006
View of Mauna Ulu at center, Pu'u Huluhulu to the right and flank of Mauna Loa at far right...from the 1969 cinder eruption of Kane Nui o Hamo shield cone...June 6, 2006
View of Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea from Kane Nui o Hamo shield cone...June 6, 2006
1969 cinder eruption at the base of Kane Nui o Hamo shield cone...June 6, 2006
A rainbow hugs the ground in the center as several steam plumes can be seen on the right on the Laeapuki ocean entry...July 7, 2006
Three-masted boat sails around the ocean entry...strong winds force the steam plume to hug the ocean surface...July 7, 2006.
Pu'u O'o seen on the left...lavatube under extreme pressure has uplifted the crust above it and formed a shatter ring on the right...the ring is composed of concentric circles and measures about 200 feet in diameter and 15 feet high...July 16, 2006
View from the summit of Kane Nui o Hamo shield cone...steam vents have killed the trees in this area....the flat mountain in the distance is Mauna Loa at over 13,000 feet high....soil is very soft and unstable and the red streamers mark my path so that I can retrace it...Sept 3, 2006
Very deep and steep crater of Kane Nui o Hamo is hidden from view by dense forest...Sept 3, 2006
Fissure on the flank of Kane Nui o Hamo...lava spattered from this fissure in 1969....Sept 3, 2006
Steam vent on the summit of Kane Nui o Hamo...these vents have made the soil soft and unstable and killed the surrounding vegetation....Sept 3, 2006
West gap of Pu'u O'o is seen through the trees at center from the summit of Kane Nui o Hamo...both cones are on the East Rift of Kilauea....Sept 3, 2006
1997 fissure eruption on the floor of Napau Crater extended to the side of the crater....visible and irritating fumes from nearby Pu'u O'o were present on this day....Sept 11, 2006
Tree molds between Pu'u O'o and Napau Crater created in the early phases of the eruption of Pu'u O'o in the early 1980's...fumes from Pu'u O'o envelope the area...Sept 11, 2006
View of Kane Nui o Hamo shield cone in the center from the floor of Napau Crater...Napau is between Kane Nui o Hamo and Pu'u O'o on the East Rift of Kilauea....Sept 11, 2006
Remnants of pulu factory on the Napau trail...pulu is the soft new growth in the center of tree ferns and was used as mattress filling....Sept 11, 2006
View of the west side of Pu'u O'o from near the end of the Napau Trail....Sept 11, 2006
Fissure between Pu'u O'o and Napau Crater....cloud of irritating fume from Pu'u O'o is heading my way...usual trade winds which carry the fumes aloft were absent that day....Sept 11, 2006
Well worn path is shown in the middle of a filled-in fissure between Pu'u O'o and Napau Crater...Sept 11, 2006
Bomb tip, a relic of World War II training area just south of Kilauea summit in the Kau Desert...ground is a mixture of ash, cinders and broken down lava rock carried by flash floods...Nov 5, 2006
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