May 8th, 2009 
Spooky 
Thrill-seekers have a new reason to be happy. Volcano-surfing, a new kind of extreme sport, is growing more and more popular.
Phillip Southan is the young owner of Green Pathways Tour, the company that organizes volcano surfing sessions on Cerro Negro, one of Nicaragua’s most active and dangerous volcanoes.
Dressed in protective gear, adrenalin-junkies climb 726 meters up Cerro Negro and slide down on specially-built plywood boards. Southan admits there is a chance the young volcano could erupt, but says the biggest danger is the volcano surfers might fall off the board and injure themselves.
The volcano surfing tour has only been around for 4 years, but 10, 000 people have already participated.
via Telegraph.co.uk
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Uh–why do people think surfing the ash and lapili-sized ejecta of volcanoes is new? We used to do the same thing on skim boards on the big ash slopes of Mt St Helens and Mt Adams in the late 60s/early 70s; I know others who were doing it on Lassen and Shasta at the same time. One can assume it’s been done on many steep talus slopes, where grain size was optimal, around the world time and again–it’s kind of an obvious thing to do, once you’ve glissaded down a few of them. It’s what led us to go to the big inland sand dunes and surf them, long before the popularization of snowboarding.
Yea this is been around for years now, cause my ancestors invented it hundreds of years ago in Hawaii! LOL Sorry I just want some recognition. Y’all tried to take Surfing now this
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