[aruanan]

Beautiful volcano, but I think that the mud volcanoes of Azerbaijan are just as strange, especially since they incorporate hydrocarbon release.

[cogitator]

Yup, those are strange, and I think that there could be a long and protracted argument about what a "volcano" really is, but we won't do that. Suffice it to say that there are more strange things in this world than even we can imagine, Horatio.

Below is a backcountry wonder in Yellowstone that very few people have ever seen.

Here's another view. It's called Fairyland Basin. I actually met the Park Ranger who "discovered" it (it had been described but the location lost for several years until he found it again); he was unfortunately killed in an avalanche a few years after I met him.

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