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A crater.
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I think this was a full 3 minutes into our second day of hiking when she just HAD to stop to fix her boots. Or feet. Or something. I wasn't really paying attention.
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Walking on that stuff seriously sucks.
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It looks like a giant poo. Or a brownie. Whichever. It's actually a huge secret ... volcanoes spew out chocolate. That's where chocolate comes from.
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There's a lot of glare. But the gps and the sign roughly agree. Just another 2,700-ish feet to ascend.
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Much closer to Mauna Kea - so, I took another picture.