Lava in winter

Here I'm hanging out in a field of pahoehoe lava. No, not in Hawaii...in New Mexico! The snow is probably the giveaway though snow falls on the lava at the summit of Mauna Loa. I hiked a little over a mile from cairn to cairn in the lava field. It turns out to be very tricky because you can't always see the best footing in the lava. But I made it OK...took a lot of concentration though.

This lava flow is about 3,000 years old.