Oozing across a young but cooled lava flow, a fresh breakout of Kilauea “61g” occupies the gravitational path of least resistance in its seemingly methodical, deliberate push seaward, rendering to flame and ash one stick stuck in its way. On larger scales, the same process has removed forests and subdivisions all across the Kalapana area, since the East Rift Zone of Kilauea started its current repaving project in the early 1980s. The remains of those trees and dwellings lay charred and entombed, tens of feet beneath our hike to this spot.
4 W Kalapana HI (22 Dec 17) Looking S
19.3485, -155.038Flowing Furnace
Oozing across a young but cooled lava flow, a fresh breakout of Kilauea “61g” occupies the gravitational path of least resistance in its seemingly methodical, deliberate push seaward, rendering to flame and ash one stick stuck in its way. On larger scales, the same process has removed forests and subdivisions all across the Kalapana area, since the East Rift Zone of Kilauea started its current repaving project in the early 1980s. The remains of those trees and dwellings lay charred and entombed, tens of feet beneath our hike to this spot.
4 W Kalapana HI (22 Dec 17) Looking S
19.3485, -155.038