Navigating lava rock can be perilous ... who does his exploring in a lightweight helmet with a small flashlight duct-taped to the brim. “On a workingman’s salary, you can go into an ...

I usually opt to hike here, where Black Rock slices through a forest dotted with ponderosa pines to one side, and to the other, a sprawling, 6,000-acre lava flow, formed by, yes, lava that once ...

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills ... so I’ll need to watch out for things like lava flow. Lava is very hot molten or liquid rock, which reaches over 1,000 degrees.

According to the USGS' Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO), episode 13 of the volcano's current eruption began just after 2:30 a.m. HST, and small lava flows were observed coming from the north vent.