Shelby Gonzalez is a senior copywriter at REI, former adventure columnist (“Miss Guided”), and co-founder of the award-winning Lake Superior Storm Festival. Hailing from the beautiful but rather flat North Star State–Minnesota–she is still awestruck by the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. REI member since 2007.
Sure, the cone was pyroclastic—a technical term meaning “sometimes spews lava”—but it seemed to be done erupting. So Rosaly Lopes and her advisor proceeded with...
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Almost there. Finally.
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