Volcano Boarding

Ok, playing a bit of blog catch-up here so pretend you’re reading this 3 weeks ago :)
This weekend we went to Leon and climbed the Cerro Negro Volcano. It’s a very young volcano, only about 150 years old. Apparently it just popped up overnight in the middle of this farming region outside of Leon (being a farmer must be hard enough with the droughts and floods without having a volcano pop up in the middle of you cabbages!!).

Anyway, the tour started at the barefoot hostel where we saw the top recorded ash boarding speeds (80km per hour for guys and 72 for girls). We then got into the back of a ute for a bumpy ride to the volcano.



(incidentally Cerro Negro is where Eric Barone set a world speed record on a mountain bike).

I took us about 1.5 hours to carry our boards to the top where we donned the sexy overalls and goggles for the descent.










Alas no speed records were broken but it was an awesome ride!! Every time I’d get some speed going I’d lose control and fall off. The speed was measured at the bottom so by the time I got there I was only doing 20km per hour.
After that it was back to the hostel for Mojitos :)