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Article: TOP 3 Volcano Hikes
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- Backpacker
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- August 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Rodale Inc. Aug 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The hills are alive? The three mountains here sure were, but that wasn't the sound of music down there-that was the grinding of tectonic plates and the churning of hot, liquid magma beneath the earth's surface. These hikes take you straight to the core of the action.
CAPULIN, NM
EXPLORE A REAL-LIFE SCIENCE PROJECT
From a distance, Capulin resembles that perfectly conical papier-mâché exhibit that spewed baking soda and vinegar at the middle-school science fair of your youth. But this shapely cinder cone takes on a whole different scale: It rises 1,300 feet from a 8,000-square-mile volcanic field. And the last time it blew, 60,000 years ago, it was a trifle more violent than the ...