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Costa Rica & Panama album cover, 171 photos.
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Park rangers said Rincon's crater was off limits due to cloud. I nodded, said I was going to trek the forest, then headed for the crater. View of the forest while ascending.
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Climbing Rincon: getting ready to disappear into the clouds
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Blasted by strong winds, with minimal visibility and a narrowing path, "this way to crater ..."
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By the side of the crater in the clouds
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It was eerie to be walking through clouds, dropoffs on both sides of the path, with no idea what to expect.
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Rincon is the only volcano to stonewall me twice. This pic was taken during my second climb. I waited three hours in the clouds to get a good shot of the crater. It never happened. This is me getting slammed by the wind.
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Crater lip
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Rainforest giant
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Forest giant
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By the city of Liberia, in the north of Costa Rica, is the Rincon de la Vieja national park. Here are dozens of boiling volcanic mud pots.
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This volcancito -- a twelve by fifteen foot pool of bubbling hot mud -- has temperatures of 75-106 degrees Celsius (192-248 degrees Fahrenheit). Rincón de la Vieja
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Spikes
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Mr. Camouflage
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A beach of Samara, Costa Rica
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Asteroid splats! Crab dugout patterns of a Samara beach, Costa Rica
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Sceneries around the town of Samara
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A spiky situation. The awesome defenses of a Costa Rican tree (Jabillo Hura Crepitans), with hanging pen and film case to provide some perspective on the size of the spikes.
