Alaskan Volcanoes

If most of your thoughts about volcanoes center around places like Hawaii, you may want to jaunt over to this post for a glimpse at some snow-covered Alaskan monster mountains.  Here’s a sneak "peak" at one called Kanaga:

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Rapidsea is already hosted inside a volcano, but moving to Kanaga above or Augustine below (by Dennis Anderson) in Alaska could be amazing.

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Any other volcano votes?

How about Fourpeaked steam from this site:

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This one is by Kay Lawson of the Alaska Volcano Observatory / University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute.  More images are here also.

Not that Hawaii’s volcanoes have no snow:

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That’s Moku‘āweoweo, the summit of Mauna Loa, on January 2, 2008 (contrast and brightness increased to show more detail).

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Posted on January 2, 2008
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