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| eje138 | Route climbed: From the car park under the ski lift, after the restaurant on the road  Date Climbed: Jul 22, 1999 | |
| This was the last of the four volcanoes we visited during our Southern Italian volcanoe trip with Baraka. Long tiring trekking up the mountain in deep volcanic sand. Mild volcanic activity at the craters. | |
| Posted Mar 1, 2009 1:40 pm | ||
| diane | the grand crater Date Climbed: Jun 20, 2007 | |
| took the cable car and weird lunar jeep/trucks up to the small extinct craters and the site of the 2001 eruptions that took out the ski hut. then, with our etna guide rosario and our volcano discovery geologist marta, we climbed the last 1000+ feet to the rim of the grand crater and up to the current highest point on the northeast crater. we crossed some new lava flows as recent as just 2 weeks ago, they were sharp and crunchy and slow going because a slip on that stuff would be really painful. then uphill, at the crater rim rosario explained that the grand crater is really made up of several smaller craters inside a big one and then two sort of attached craters on the southeast and northeast. the south east crater has been errupting (the geologist tells us they're "toy" erruptions) and so we couldn't hike it, the guides won't take groups. wished we could have seen some volcanic activity. saw plenty of fumeroles and inhaled our fair share of sulferous gases. hiked all the way back down past the vale du bove to our lodge rather than taking the jeep/trucks and cable car back down. took great jumping steps knee deep in volcanic ash and sand most of the way down. just amazing and unlike hiking other places! | |
| Posted Jun 26, 2007 6:00 pm | ||
| andrea.it | Army | |
| Climbed with part of my regiment.July 1992 during the army service. | |
| Posted Apr 2, 2007 7:45 pm | ||
| Bubba Suess | My 21st birthday. Date Climbed: Jun 12, 1999 | |
| I climbed the mountain on my 21st birthday with my sister. Great trip, awesome mountain. | |
| Posted Mar 16, 2007 5:02 pm | ||
| flow | Etna from south side Date Climbed: Sep 16, 2005 | |
| From south side (skiing area; 1.910m) up to Bocca Nuova ~3.260m | |
| Posted Nov 30, 2006 11:51 pm | ||
| tws | Route climbed: south Date Climbed: Jul 17, 2005 | |
| We climbed to the small side-crater's rim near Torre del Filosofo (about ~3000m) from the cable car station. There was still snow visible in some places under the ashes. The temperature was maybe about 10-12 C on 3000 metres. | |
| Posted Nov 20, 2006 5:01 pm | ||
| milan1970 | Route Climbed: don't know Date Climbed: may 2000 | |
| We went up with the lift and after that we just followed a group with a guide. They were standing still and were not allowed to go up any further because of the eruption, that started that same week. We decided to go up a little bit higher till the weatherstation. I think it was around 3100 something. It was pretty cold -10C and people were standing in reel winterjackets, ofcourse we were dressed as stupid tourist in sweaters. At least the earth (scramble) fellt hot :-). Pretty soon we went down another track because the clouds came in. After a few hours we were back on our terrace enjoying the sunshine. | |
| Posted Nov 18, 2005 2:06 pm | ||
| Peter Hodd | Route Climbed: Etna Nord traverse Date Climbed: May 31 2oo5 | |
| We climbed with a guide, Maurizio from Etnatrekking.com. It is a steep walk or scramble up to the Cratere Centrale and a very steep slide down the lave screes from the Bocca Nuova. walking poles were very useful on the descent since some of the scree descents must have been getting on for 300m without a break! There was a lot of lying snow and in fact the next day a blizzard completely whited out the summit for a time, so treat this mountain with respect! A lot of the routes had completely changed from my guidebook, only about 5 Years old- there have been 3 significant eruptions since 2000 and many changes at the 4 Summit cones(- enormous!) as well as near the refugio Sapienza at Etna Sud. From the drop off near Piano Provenzana to the southern refugio took about 6 hours on some very loose terrain- gaiters will keep the dust out of you boots. | ||
| Posted Jun 7, 2005 3:04 pm | ||
| sergioenrico | Route Climbed: nord Date Climbed: 26/3/2005 | |
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| Posted Apr 24, 2005 2:56 am | ||
| sergioenrico | Route Climbed: south Date Climbed: 25/3/2005 | |
| climb from the skiing resort | |
| Posted Apr 24, 2005 2:55 am | ||
| Thomas Gurviez | Route Climbed: north east route Date Climbed: april 2000 | |
| climb from the skiing resort on the northeast side, still a lot of snow above 1800 m. we stopped at 2800 meters because of an eruption and a very strong wind | |
| Posted Feb 8, 2005 2:22 am | ||
| Chandra | Route Climbed: southern normal route Date Climbed: January 11th, 2001 | |
| simply a fascinating scenery | |
| Posted Sep 18, 2002 11:44 am | ||
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