One thing that we can't stress enough is to be prepared for ALL WEATHER conditions.
Due to the terrain everywhere has its microclimates.

One summer I was here... The weather was fine and warm, within one hour the weather turned and snow was falling.
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>>> apptech@paradise.net.nz 01 Apr 08 09:32:33 >>>
> Are you sure those pictures aren't of the moon or mars? 
> :)

I see that I achieved the desired impression :-).

> I have walked in a lava ash crater in Iceland 
> (Hverfjall) - 40 mins or
> so to climb the outside wall, 20 minutes to slide to the 
> bottom and be
> all touristy and write your name in stones.  This was 
> around 1984 -
> the ash deposit was from some distance away- the ash was 
> still warm
> after 6 years.

We get eruptions of various magnitudes every 2 to 10 yearsih 
amongst our various volcanos. Some large, most minor.

    Russell

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