Comments | pouletnomial: Pacaya Volcano

pouletnomial

Pacaya Volcano

Jan 09, 2006 19:31

So I climbed a volcano on Saturday. Yep... a REAL volcano. It was real big, real scary, and real hot at the top. I don't mean that it was actually scary to climb, but a couple times I was really surprised that they actually let us do it. This sort of thing would never be allowed in the US without like 10 sign-your-life-away forms ( Read more... )

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nattybumppo January 11 2006, 01:49:55 UTC

That's sooo cool. I love your pictures, too. About how long did it take you to climb it?

Also, was it an active volcano? I thought that you told me it was a dormant one, yet it was still really hot and there were toxic gases and stuff? I guess I don't really know how that works.

What sort of words did people write?

And your method you described for going down the volcano sounds like a LOT of fun. I'll try to remember that next time I'm running from a WALL OF LIQUID HOT MAGMA.

I plan to be really bad and thus not get any rocks. Only the opposite of that.

pouletnomial January 22 2006, 08:18:42 UTC

Ok, bad Nat, you don't get any rocks. None. Pbbt!

It took about 2 1/2 hours to climb, but not totally sure because the entire time I was in Guatemala, I was without a watch.
Yeah, so I thought that it was a dormant volcano, but no... in fact some days they don't let people go up all the way cuz it's gonna erupt. Becky told me that she went there too and climbed up some of the way and got to see it. Cool, eh?

People wrote all kinds of stuff in rocks, but mostly names and initials. Next most popular were religious things like "Jesus" in a fish, or crosses etc.

nattybumppo January 22 2006, 10:55:29 UTC

Becky? Was she there too? Waah?

pouletnomial January 23 2006, 02:54:52 UTC

Becky went last summer with like a missions trip from her school. But yes, I found out that she also climbed Pacaya.

nattybumppo January 11 2006, 01:51:25 UTC

Oh, and what the crap are you holding in this picture?

http://pics.livejournal.com/pouletnomial/pic/00015es5/g1

malikona January 22 2006, 00:16:09 UTC

fish's spinal vertebae?

nattybumppo January 22 2006, 00:38:26 UTC

Yeah, I think you're right, but she's holding it pretty triumphantly. It seems like there's some hidden significance.

pouletnomial January 22 2006, 08:21:54 UTC

Ok guys, I'm holding the end of a fish I ate. In the little town next to Lake Atitlan there were a few fish shops, one of which I ate in. We ordered "fried fish" and it was literally a whole little fish, fried. Man... totally not very much food either cuz it was a tiny fish. I went home hungry that day.

rocks malikona January 22 2006, 00:15:46 UTC

so i hope i can be good enough to get a rock from the volcano, because that would be awesome *hint hint*.

Re: rocks pouletnomial January 22 2006, 08:22:47 UTC

::shrugs:: When am I gonna see you next? Let me know so I can make sure to have a rock or two on me.

Re: rocks malikona January 22 2006, 14:41:13 UTC

hmm, i might be coming back to new york for a bit over my spring break, sometime between april 21 and 29!