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Guest Thinkers — September 1, 2010

Mystery Volcano Photo #3

The second Mystery Volcano Photo was apparently way too easy for you savvy volcanophiles, so here’s another to test you over the weekend.

OK, well, apparently MVP #2 was waaay too easy because Elizabeth got it on the first try – it was indeed Villarrica in Chile – I’ll post something on Villarrica later this weekend. Anyway, for the weekend, I’ll leave you with this photo. Hopefully it won’t be so easy … but then again, you all seem to be pretty good at this.

Scoreboard

volcanista – 1

Elizabeth – 1

all the rest of you – 0

The new photo:

Good luck.

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