We left for Fang camp last Friday in the afternoon and arrived with enough time to poke around a bit and make dinner and sleep. Our four days at Fang seemed to fly by and we all slept about 12 hours each night. Maybe it was the cold? It seemed like cooking and eating only happened once a day since it was such an involved process to cram us all in a Scott tent and boil snow in -20 degree weather. However, we had some pretty nice days without wind, where we enjoyed some quality time outside.

I took the first picture on the second day at Fang when we heard a loud boom and felt the mountain shake. We all looked up the ridge expecting to see an avalanche or something, but then saw this little cloud of smoke rise up from where the crater was. This became a regular thing and we usually felt the mountain "burp" twice a day. However, to our great excitement, upon reaching the upper camp, we noticed that most of the little explosions shot lava bombs the size of cars all over the hillside below the crater.

As shown in the third picture, that day was a "plumey day". Sometimes the mountain has a huge plume and sometimes, nothing. You can also see the main hut in the foreground with only a little bit of the shoveling work done on the drift.

The last pic is of some weather moving in at Fang... quickly.

~G