Steam bath

I have been enjoying reading The Control of Nature by John McPhee. He is talking about man-made controls all floods, landslides and lava flows. They have not been very successful but interesting. His treatment of lava Histo flows from the Kilauea volcano on the big Island of Hawaii has recalled a memory.

Norma and I were with an Eelder Hostel Group stayind in a National Forest barracks on the rim of Kilauea. It was December and quite cool at that altitude. The barracks were not heeded and the showers not satisfactory. We got an idea. That idea what to gop down into the crater which is about 2 miles long and 2 1/2 miles wide. It consists of a hardened lava that is not easy to hike in. There is a calera. We did not go near that. We found a steam that suited our need and made a tent of a parka. We had an el naturale steam bath, that Iincluding the steam. An experience that will not be forgotten