[Sca-cooks] Snowbound?

[Patricia Dunham]

Well, you don't think of the altitude of the volcanic peaks, but....  "at the very summits of our 3 tallest volcanoes (Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea and Haleakala). The snow level almost never gets below 9000 feet in Hawaii during the winter, but since these mountains are taller than 13,000 feet, 13,000 feet, and 10,000 feet, respectively, they get dusted with snow a few times a year. It rarely stays on the ground for more than a few days though. ", from a Geology prof. at UHawaii.

chimene

On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Euriol of Lothian wrote:

> Did not know that... didn't think they would be high enough in the tropics to 
> get snow.