Showing posts with label lahar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lahar. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Vagabonding on Dangerous Ground: Playing Hide and Seek with a Sleeping Monster

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Mt. Baker and Boulder Creek upstream of Baker Lake Reservoir There's something about traveling through the Pacific Northwest that I ...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: A Landscape Buried in Hot Mud, and a 6-foot Long Saber-tooth Salmon

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Mt. Shasta is a big mountain. A really big mountain. Reaching an elevation of 14,179 ft (4,322 m), and rising nearly 10,000 ft. (~3,000 m...
Saturday, June 6, 2015

Driving Through the Most Dangerous Plate Boundary in the World: A Gentle Landscape Belies a Fiery Past

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As we leave the Great Valley behind on our journey through the most dangerous plate boundary in the world, we finally enter the world of ...
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Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Northern Convergence: America's Most Dangerous Volcano, and the End of the Journey

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Northern Convergence as a name for this blog series was all about the role of a convergent plate boundary in the production of the scene...
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Saturday, October 26, 2013

The Volcano That Doesn't Exactly Look Like a Volcano: California's Lassen Peak

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Lassen Peak is an odd one. Most people have a stereotypical view of what a volcano "should" look like, and to most people, Lassen ...
Sunday, January 20, 2008

Picture of the Day - The Airliner Chronicles Part 4

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Mt. Hood, in northern Oregon, is one of the most beautiful and symmetrical stratovolcanoes in the Cascades. At 11,249 ft. (3,429 m), it is ...
Thursday, January 17, 2008

Picture of the Day - The Airliner Chronicles Part 2

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Some obvious choices come first...volcanoes are spectacular from above. I had an extraordinary flight to and from Seattle, when the skies we...
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