All I wanted was a tall cold cafe au lait, so after flying north through fertile-volcanic-soil rich-coffee-growing terrain I just continued on further to pick up the ice. However silly me forgot to get milk! What volcano is this? Find me using Google Earth's 3D imagery and your knowledge of volcano landforms.
Submit your guess on the video's YouTube page. All guesses will stay hidden in the "awaiting moderation" queue until this week's challenge ends.
This challenge runs from 29 September - 6 October
A new #WhereAmI challenge is uploaded every #VolcanoMonday.
I am 140 km further south of my last hiding-place STILL in the Southern Andean Volcanic Arc atop the southern peak of glacier-crowned Mocho-Choshuenco. The volcano...or more properly volcano(es) are a pair of not-quite-identical "twin" stratovolcanoes, the older and smaller Choshuenco to the north and the younger, taller (though only by 7 m) and historically active El Mocho to the south. The name of Mocho is from the Spanish word for "short cut", perhaps due to how the Mocho volcano's broad caldera minus the relatively recent central cone might be perceived as shorter or headless. Choshuenco's name is a bit of a dispute, but generally agreed upon to derive from the native Mapudungun language and relates to either yellow earth or yellow water. Mocho-Choshuenco last erupted in 1937 and is currently on its best mountainnish behaviour.
The flight path begins 9.5 km southeast of the volcano's summit above the Río Mocho and traces the river's path up to its frozen source, the stratovolcano El Mocho's frozen summit. Once there, you gain a view of the landscape to the northwest, including Lago Riñihué on the left and Lago Panguipulli on the right, two of four large elongated lakes that formed around the volcano's base. You also see the peak of Choshuenco, El Mocho's companion stratovolcano. You begin your first descent, circling counterclockwise and passing over Volcan Chaiquemahuida and Crater del Buey. You ascend again, this time flying eastward across the saddle between Mocho and Choshuenco. On the far left horizon you get a brief look at the tall snowy summit of Villarrica. Below, Lago Neltume is in view, and, as you continue your turn, you see the lower broad profile of Quetrupillán on the horizon and the high peak of Lanín further to the right. Continuing your southward turn, Lago Pirihueico appears, and on the horizon just past where the lake disappears from view, the Huanquihue Group of volcanoes can be seen, though barely distinguishable from other mountains in the area. Your second pass of El Mocho's summit gets you another good look at the two western lakes before turning you north to fly once again over Choshuenco and then north toward the low forested Pleistocene volcano Quinchilca and Villarrica before the flight path comes to an end.
This may be the last season of these challenges, as I am running out of Google Earth volcanoes with suitable 3D meshes and image overlays for making good quality fly-overs. HOWEVER I am strongly considering going back to my archived Challenges and giving some of the best ones a "glow-up", redoing them in higher resolution with better editing and including descriptions of the flight paths as well as information about the volcanoes. If/when I finalize how I will be rolling that out, I'd love to hear from you all about which volcanoes I should start with. Also let me just thank you all one more time for your viewership and for keeping me motivated. It's been a fun almost-five-years and I hope to keep this thing going, even if we have to set a slightly different course.
Watch the video, and then use your knowledge of volcano landforms along with the vast internet and a bit of deductive reasoning to figure out which volcano Volcanohead is visiting.
Each challenge will run from Monday to Monday. Comment your guess on the video's YouTube page, where it will remain hidden "awaiting moderation" until the challenge ends. The answer will be revealed and winner(s) announced the following week
Every winner earns a single point for finding me, AND IF nobody guesses correctly, Volcanohead gets the point.
All five seasons of past Where Am I? tours are now included in the KMZ file. Each Tour file includes the Tour itself as well as the Volcanohead placemarker, which comes with an info card with links to that Challenge's YouTube video, featured music, and a generic link to that volcano's entry at GVP (behind a spoiler warning for those who might want to try guessing where they are).
All Tours info-cards created since #216 will also include a box at the bottom that you can scroll to reveal additional descriptive and informative text about the various landmarks featured in that Tour.
The KMZ file, which is available on my Downloads and Resources page, includes all past Challenges except for the ongoing one. I will add future Challenges to this file after they have ended. Also included are a few "easter-egg" extras for your enjoyment.
Further user instructions and suggestions are included with the KMZ download in the Read Me folder.