I rallied a crew of friends to set out at 2 a.m. for the winding 50-minute drive from the town of Haiku up to Haleakala National Park ... and green cinder cones. I zipped up my fleece and ...

HALEAKALA – On the 100th anniversary of Haleakala National Park, the weather could have ... eruptions on Maui and leaving behind a large cinder cone in the crater known as Pu’u o Pele.

When Haleakala erupts again, it will not be an explosive Mount St. Helens kind of event, Haleakala National Park officials said ... which include lava flows and cinder cones, we assume that ...

63 Parks Traveler started with a simple goal: to visit every U.S. national park. Avid backpacker and ... Oxblood-colored cinder cones sprouted up like enormous anthills, once endangered Haleakala ...

HALEAKALA NATIONAL PARK, Maui, Hawaii– What can you say about ... but no one knows for sure if seething magma tendrils lurk inside the cone, just waiting for an opening. The official term ...

From cinder desert to tropical forest, the 19-square-mile Haleakala Crater boasts varied landscape. In the center is a hiker at "Pele's Paint Pot," likely named for the goddess of fire and volcanoes.

University of Hawaii researchers Paul Krushelnycky and Molly O’Grady hiked into Haleakala Crater on Oct ... The scattering of white specks on the cinder cone are silverswords.

From cinder desert to tropical ... thundering in my ears. In 2008, National Park Service acoustic experts found that the ambient sound levels within Haleakala crater were near the very threshold ...