Pikya hike

Today was our day off so we decided to climb volcan Pikya. Pikya is an active volcano, and when its really active, tyou can barely cllimb to the base, or otherdays you can climb right to the cone.

After an hour and a bit long car ride, we were partways up the volcano and had another hour and a half hike we came to the lava fields. The path up was really nice. It was through some dense forest, with some look out points where you could see the town bellow, some beautifal lakes and even all the way to guatemala city, which is miles away. - we really lucked out with a clear day. Jasmin and her boyfriend Chris rented horses to take them most of the way.

Before we even came to the lave fields, we could see some recent lava flows that stretch way down the volcano. The volcano itself was fairly active. lots of steam and falling rocks from the top, and some lava flowing from the sides, but nothing too extreem. Although, to get to the bases of the cone, you have to climb over these lava fields which are still hot. Some places, you could look down these cracks in the rock and see streams of lava flowing not even ten feet bellow your feet.

I saw a few people who stepped in the wrong place and melted the soles of thier shoes. I even roated marshmellows on thoes rocks.

The pure heat comming from thoes rocks was amazing. There would be a cool breeze, and then the wind would change and the heat would just hit you. We tried to climb over to the lava but the rocks were just too hot.

It was an amazing trip and i hope we can do it agian before we leave. Unfourtanitly, its the only active volcano in guatemala that we can climb, but were planning on a few more trips to other mouantins.