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Mt Ruapehu ready to blow (again)
 Poster: A snowHead
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10848538

Ring of Fire heating up

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
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earthquake in chile !!!!!!!!

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/world/article/6-1-magnitude-quake-strikes-Chile-4057965.php

we're Doomed, Doomed.......................
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

http://www.livescience.com/24987-new-zealand-volcano-erupts-at-risk-for-more.html

never mind Chile - Ruapehu's next door neighbour has erupted again. I spent a day at Ruapehu, some years ago, and can well remember the blithe assurances from NZ skiers that it was not going to erupt..... the next year, it did.

Stanton is probably right.
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pam w,
I was there when it went up in 2007. Lost a days skiing.... I have copied this from a post I made earlier about it.

We were in NZ in September 2007 and the ski areas were closed for that very reason. The black area on the top is the result of an eruption the night before, as is the black squiggly bit in the middle which is a laha (?), hot black flowing mud down a gulley that I was skiing in the day before.




This is a close-up of it after some locals had shown me the way around the 2 policeman blocking access to the gulley area :-



Here are the policemen (?) "stopping" you from accessing this part of the area, you cannot really see them in the photo but behind them are quite a few holes in the snow where debris had landed the night before :-



Holes like this :-



I am assured this does not happen very often but you might as well check.......

I do not have a bad word to say about New Zealand though, great country, great people, great skiing. Would go back any time.

Just to edit. The ski areas were only closed for one day because of this.
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Fascinating pictures, thanks. I had a very brief, unscheduled visit. Was driving across N Island, actually working, from Auckland down to Wellington. Had chosen to drive, with a colleague, rather than fly and miss the whole country, and it was the weekend, so we had time. Heard a report on FM radio about great conditions at Ruapehu, then saw the amazing sight of the volcano rising up in the distance and persuaded colleague (never been skiing) we simply had to take a detour. We were in summer clothes, as we were based in Fiji. Drove up, were quickly able to hire jackets, trousers and walking boots. Friendly Kiwi on bus gave us some sun screen. We had a walk about, a (very good) coffee and sandwich, and I persuaded him we should hire ski gear for a quick go on the nursery rope drag. Was great fun, but made us horribly late for a dinner with the British High Commisioner in Wellington. We didn't really want to go to it, and they really didn't want us, so we phoned and made the excuse that I had badly miscalculated how long the drive would take us.

Next day, at the long and mostly very boring meeting, I was enjoying the sore muscles in my left arm, from hanging on so long to the nursery tow rope, helping my colleague to have his first go at skiing. Helped me to put up with the inevitably jibes about my navigational ability!

That was in 1992 IIRC, before the big eruption which lost a lot more than a day's skiing!

I was very impressed by the whole place, especially how easy it was for completely unprepared people, in summer clothes, to get up the mountain and out on the snow. Very friendly welcome, looked a great place to ski.
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Anyone know what wax to use when riding liquid hot magma?
"Variable Conditions" I'd guess... Skullie
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