Catch-up Volcano #39: Bedtime at Augustine

Taken from our camp just below the summit at 10:00 PM.

In late summer the sun does eventually go below the horizon, but the sky stays bright all night.

Weekly Volcano #23: Mount Saint Augustine, Alaska

"Discovered" by Captain Cook on Saint Augustine's Day in 1778 and now officially named Augustine Volcano.  My first crossing of paths with David Johnston.  He had studied the 1978 eruption of Augustine.  His party had crashed on the island during the eruption due to ash in the helicopter engines.  A warning for those of you who don't understand closing airports because of volcanic eruptions!  His party was rescued just hours before they would have been killed by the major eruptive phase.

We had the opportunity to take an overflight, looking down into the crater I had walked through just days before. And the transport for our expedition and the overflight, a vintage 1948 Cesna Otter.

Views of the classic Pelean Spine, produced by the 1978 eruption, destroyed by the 1986 eruption.