Lava overruns the rim to the east of the Switchbacks on Route A. September 17, 2021

[@johnhaller7017]

Thanks for all your input.

[@dronelaw]

My pleasure!

[@hoperobers4542]

Thank you! So many videos don’t show perspective! This gave me a great idea of the magnitude of this eruption and I’ve been watching since the very beginning!

[@dronelaw]

Glad it was helpful!

[@AvanaVana]

Incredible documentation here.

[@bazpearce9993]

Loving the colour of that lava.

[@elysewright9205]

Thanks for showing us your last video before heading home to CA. Interesting views and great clarity of the pictures.

[@dronelaw]

My pleasure, I'm glad people enjoy watching what I watched through my viewfinder.

[@arctic_haze]

One of the best views. Thanks!

[@philholman8520]

Awesome thanks so much for sharing!

[@dronelaw]

You are so welcome!

[@goldreverre]

great footage. A real meal of a video giving all angles and fantastic overview...and bonus, no horrible soundtrack. just straight, clean and pure. Thanks.

[@dronelaw]

You and a couple thousand more don't like the music. So, these 5 will be the last "just the facts" videos I can put out from this trip (I only spent 5 days there), until I get back there again.

[@nurseriches]

Great work. Truly mesmerising. I especially appreciate all the times you managed to get the tiny human visitors in the shots to provide a visual scale of this massive, massive event. Keep up the great work!

[@dronelaw]

You give me way too much credit. I had no idea the people were in the video!

[@wendywilson18]

The lava snakes keep moving and slithering and doing great work at new land-making. Ok, I will stop with my verbiage now.

[@BrianNeville91]

Incredible drone work! We hiked Route A during the afternoon of September 16th and returned at 11pm on September 17th for a night ascent just as the route was overrun and had to head over to Route B. The volume of lava flowing during those couple days was awe-inspiring!

[@dronelaw]

Route B is a real nasty hike at night! "B is for Brutal".

[@neilcamden1365]

Great footage. Really nice to see extended/RAW footage without too much comment/music. Great to see how the flows develop...

[@jamjigger2188]

Thank you for sharing this video!

[@dronelaw]

You bet!

[@dronelaw]

Thanks, I was never really scared, but definitely got very hot a few times.

[@jgurka2105]

Excellent video; great views showing the elevations the lava is going over and around. Thanks for posting for the world to see.

[@dronelaw]

Thank you, I enjoyed shooting, and the depth of the lava from my first trip there in May is incredible.

[@johne6479]

Fan of your work too mate . .thank you

[@keonikaig9247]

GREAT footage ....Thank you

[@melodiefrances3898]

I very much appreciate the "just a video" videos, and seeing it in the daytime. Bummed you won't be there anymore, but appreciate what you have done. This view is insane. Getting to see such a high perspective is so helpful for putting pieces together.

[@dronelaw]

Thank you. I too was feeling pretty bummed out about leaving after only 5 days, but I have a job, family, etc. back in California, so I can't stay there forever. But, if I could get a full-time job flying drones over volcanos . . . I'd have already bought a house in Grindavik.

[@petrahonecker1525]

Thank you very much. I like the high quality of your videos. Stay healthy and have a great weekend.

[@dronelaw]

Thank you very much for the comment.

[@johncurnan1710]

That's a long trip!

[@debbied2715]

What a fabulous job you have done providing us with these amazing videos...all of us "regulars" thank you very much and hope your time home is safe!

[@dronelaw]

Yep, home, safe, and already missing "my" volcano.

[@marshallsuber3346]

Great work with the drone. This is just what I needed. Great views and no music or talk. Thanks.

[@dronelaw]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@spottedreptile2671]

Thanks for the great views and the context. Makes it much easier to follow for someone on the other side of the world.

[@hronnfridriksdottir5417]

Amazing drone shots.

[@SiggiRagnar]

thanks for sharing these!! Great footage and awesome perspective!!!

[@dronelaw]

Thanks for watching

[@solros218]

Good to get a complete picture of both the walls built and that they are intact so far! Thank you for all your footages, they have really been educational with a lot of details! Tack care!

[@dronelaw]

Glad you like them!

[@charlesstewart9246]

Safe homeward journey, thank you for the no music ,money making films. Yours have not been like that at all. Infofative and natural. Wonderful experience we have had but nothing to the experiences youve been having recently. Thank-you from West Coast Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍😁

[@jathompson37]

Great job showing where this is in relation to the cone & the other valleys.

[@dronelaw]

Thank you. Now that the lava has stopped, I wish I have made some longer flights to really show where everything was.

[@WhiteTiger333]

A brilliant view of what has been happening for the past several days. What perfect weather to get this footage. It's easy to see why trail A is closed now. (I guess that means, by being closed, only a hundred or so people are up there - lol!) Very dramatic and lovely perspective of where all the lava is headed (the ocean). Thank you for this video. Mesmerizing!

[@dronelaw]

Well, A was closed the day after I left, but now the volcano has apparently stopped (again).

[@silkemersmann4714]

great footage! I love getting an overview.

[@dronelaw]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@wendywilson18]

oh yes...and Holey, Moley!...my personal reaction to an event that we would not see without your drone coverage. Kudos!

[@dronelaw]

Thanks, this volcano is really addictive.

[@fiegenfiegen]

Thank you so much! These shots are excellent and give a magnificent insight of how Geldingadalir is becoming filled to the rim!

[@dronelaw]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@suzannekeogh8534]

Astounding. Love love love!! Thank you so much.

[@dronelaw]

You are so welcome

[@dronelaw]

Thank you for appreciating what the drone did.

[@flosmith2147]

Just found your videos great. Have recommended the September 15th one to anyone who wants to see the crater fill. Awesome!

[@dronelaw]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked the crater filling videos.

[@muhammadyunaskhan8782]

Quality with synchro movement of the law is speechless in this video, Congratulate and bundles of Thanks in respect of high sophisticated modern Drone you have arrange. This video will take historical place since March 2021, the initiation of such events in the area.

[@debbieward9732]

Thank you for some incredible footage.

[@dronelaw]

It was my pleasure shooting it!

[@FrediOlson]

It really puts it into perspective to see it during the day. Great video, thank you!

[@lolvondgf]

Nice one!

[@alistairurie2902]

Excellent. Thanks so much

[@dronelaw]

You're very welcome!

[@ivymoon1779]

Great drone work. Thank you!

[@dronelaw]

Thank you too!

[@django02]

Cool video. Lots of nice shots, both wide overviews and closeups of interesting details. Thanks for posting this.

[@assassinlexx1993]

The lava looks like it is not going as far . Just making thicker layers. The highway might be safe for the time being.

[@fransverschoor8135]

Have a safe flight back to CA. If it weren't for the people who takes the time and effort to record this magnificent event the rest of the world wouldn't see half as much. Thank you.

[@dronelaw]

My pleasure, I'm back in California, but already looking at the calendar and hoping to get back once it snows a bit.

[@watrgrl2]

Great footage! Wonderful drone work there!

[@dronelaw]

Thanks a lot! I appreciate that.

[@annagray6491]

That lava has travelled such a long way!

[@joshuahoney3685]

Absolutely amazing

[@nuke4u2]

Thanks for the great footage. Good to see it from multiple angles

[@dronelaw]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@nickraschke4737]

Wonderful work. Well done.

[@dronelaw]

It was my pleasure to fly there!

[@sirpalinne1700]

This is really fine video! Thank you!

[@Mooneye9]

I really enjoy watching all of the drone footage that you post. Thankyou for allowing me to get an idea of what the area of the Volcano and lava fields look like. Great work.☺

[@dba750]

Good job! There at just the right moment

[@robertslugg8361]

On one of the climbing trails in the Cascades, the erosion is so great that it is said "the trail we are on wasn't here last year, and this trail won't be here next year." This is sort of the opposite, where every trip is on a newly "lettered" trail. Kudos to the guys keeping pace with the infrastructure. Must be frustrating to know exactly how temporary your efforts were. ;-)

[@dronelaw]

No kidding. I was there in May when they built the trail (in 1 day) that traversed the current flow, and the Switchbacks definitely took a lot of work.

[@davidjoseph7142]

Thanks for your work on these I’ll check out those other channels!

[@louisegogel7973]

Beautiful view of this massive flow! ❤️‍🔥✨ And it is wonderful and interesting being able to see the surrounding ground up so close… the moss and rocks etc thank you! ❤️‍🔥 ( just one recommendation, when you turn the drone to shift perspectives, turn slowly so we can catch the view without that fast disorienting jump… the slow turns allow us to take it in so much better.) (1st comment! 🙂😁 )

[@dronelaw]

Thanks, I will remove the jerky sections when I made the "real" videos. My gimbal motor was pretty much shot by the end of the first day (too much heat) and the distance sensor on the bottom went on the beginning of Day 2, so I was basically flying on one stick.

[@louisegogel7973]

@@dronelaw Thank you. Good luck, also with keeping the drone cool and healthy! Maybe have the drone keep a couple of ice cubes handy? lol

[@dronelaw]

@@louisegogel7973 Ha ha, I may actually look at some sort of bottom shield to put on it next time. I'll post some pictures of the melted bottom, and am open to suggestions.

[@sirpalinne1700]

I wander was there some person in an empty lavatube 25:59? There were something red and it wasn't magma. I think it moved when I watched with slow speed.

[@slpn9t]

I agree this vid actually gives you way better visual scale! Thanks heaps bud, I am jealous I can't be there flying myself!

[@dronelaw]

Iceland and Svalbard are the two most amazing places I have flown.

[@slpn9t]

@@dronelaw once my countries lockdown has ended , longest in the world, I will go to iceland and film the aftermath.

[@dronelaw]

@@slpn9t Agh! Where do you live? Bummer about the lockdown. I hope the volcano is still cooperating by the time they let you out!

[@slpn9t]

@@dronelaw Melbourne, Australia. This country sucks

[@janisthompson9801]

Wonderful vid! No ghastly musac. Great work, thx❤️🇨🇦❤️

[@dronelaw]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@417keith]

Thank you, Incredible footage

[@oleandreasjensen5263]

Absolute perfect

[@lmwlmw4468]

Great footage.

[@dronelaw]

Thanks for visiting

[@gingermanc]

Once the lava tubes have cooled it’s gonna make a great toboggan track or roller coaster

[@dronelaw]

No kidding! It reminded me of a river (I used to do a lot of river kayaking).

[@riciarites5065]

I get overcome watching feel like I should appologize, I just cant watch knowing the heat and power. It is stunning magnificent, but watched from March 20 a lot at first back when drones it ate count was up to 19. Now it scares me. I was on line when Palma went, my UK Sun. I discribed the venting similarities to the newbies panicking.

[@dronelaw]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@JSp4wN]

Awesome footage! 👍👍👍

[@dronelaw]

Thank you, I do hope that some volcanologist will be able to use it someday.

[@cD-vg5go]

Thanks... Thats Amazing

[@Becca-ho7px]

So I've been very fixated on Iceland and I was watching videos all over showing the eruption and the magma flow and it used to be just the big one please excuse me I don't know names or very specific so I hope you keep that in mind and I hope you understand what I'm saying but it was beautiful and it was just bursting with magma and falling over and just going down but now I see that there was more events that opened and it happened pretty fast because I remember the one and it was in the main one cuz it was double-sided but then when I went back to look at some more videos I saw that there was more events kind of a little bit downward and it was like just lava flow but just a bursting with magma in the air just boiling and it said that it has now covered a completely different area and is it true that there is a highway further down and I wonder if or when the time comes if the more that it grows and branches out will there ever be a place where people can hike up and be able to enjoy and see it or when that day comes if it goes too far will be blocked forever and that's a good question and that's why for those who's been able to see it in person are very well fortunate to see something so beautiful and amazing but also scary and I've seen a lot of stories about volcanoes and the ones in Hawaii and Mount St Helens and they're all different but here in Iceland the lava flow looks like it's moving at a faster pace than what I actually thought of I always thought it was slow but now I see that it has grown a lot and to me it looks like it's going downhill pretty fast or faster than I thought and I really help people are safe and they make smart decisions and not stupid ones like I've seen before and how people was walking onto the lava rocks and it was insane to see how many people were out there and the police came and forced everybody off like immediately and you never know like seriously that whole valley was covered and if you make one wrong step it could cost you your life and if you fall in others don't want to have to put their lives at risk and that's not fair and then there was another video where there was somebody that was walking up and trying to go higher ground but then it made a turn and it was a big one the magma ended up going a different direction and it was heading straight for that person and that person was lucky to be alive because they left and it didn't take long for that lava flow to go down so if you ever have videos about people being stupid you know I always wonder what you or other people would think about others and what they do and when you're a professional I need to do this all the time and you know the risk and you know what you're talking about and you know right from wrong I wonder how someone like you would feel seeing other people doing things that they shouldn't be doing I don't know if it's like a pet peeve or something that just bothers you and have you ever said anything to anybody who has done such scary things to cost them their lives but anyhow I love the video I love everything that you're showing and I have been watching it grow and grow and grow and it's now becoming massive it'll be sad if it gets to the point where nobody can go visit or even go up there anymore

[@michaelhusar3668]

There's plenty of amazing views in this video!

[@dronelaw]

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.

[@Walk_on_Part_In_a_War]

This is absolutely incredible! Awesome work.

[@WisdomFromAshes]

Nice camera work.

[@dderbydave]

thank you

[@mauricioalejandrotorresmar2996]

Espectacular. Me suscribo de inmediato

[@dronelaw]

Muchas gracias!

[@wendywilson18]

Awesome visuals. Great work! Thanks so much for your work. xo

[@debrajjones2589]

wow that was epic!

[@vonSchnoid]

Amazing aerial view! Keep it up!

[@paulshields1883]

good camera work. i really like being able to see the lava flow; there is enough footage here to edit into 3 or 4 different twelve- to- sixteen minute videos, each one telling a different story.

[@paulshields1883]

plus this particular spot, where the berms are, is urgent to cover, while the volcano gets ready to top over the berms as it fills the valleys below

[@dronelaw]

Yes, I turn my raw footage over to my nephew in Thailand, who does the pretty videos with music. I find that so many people really just want to "see the facts" and decide for themselves what is happening, so in between my raw footage and my nephew's work, hopefully everyone will find something either educational and/or entertaining.

[@AP-gx7uh]

This video shows how easy it is to build a berm out of lava. This flow built it's own berm in exactly the right place with no help. Imagine what you could do with a few 100,000 gal of water strategically placed.

[@dronelaw]

Excellent point. The lava channels itself until a large rock blocks the channel; then it overflows.

[@OurWanderingWays]

Thank you for your videos, sad you have to go home to California, what an experience it must have been to see this spectacle. Not something I will ever see. I sure enjoyed seeing it through others eyes. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

[@dronelaw]

Thank you for the kind comments. I will get back as soon as I can.

[@c.coleman5989]

Excellent! 👀👀🌋🌋😍😍📷📷

[@dronelaw]

Many thanks!

This is great to see. Iceland is unic! All events are growing and the ice is melting and the big volcanos are becoming restless and soon RAGNAROK will send smoke to Europe you know!

[@geraldnowak7842]

good job uncle

[@dronelaw]

Thank you. It was fun (and cold and a bit scary) filming it,

[@sweettrubble4635]

The only thing holding the lava back has been those mountains and valleys. This thing is far from over.

[@dronelaw]

I am pretty sure it will end up in the ocean sooner or later.

[@stuart2071]

Thanks so much. I actually watched the entire video. I was thinking that it would be interesting to see some lower altitude views when I came to 40:30 or so. Uncanny.

[@dronelaw]

Ha ha, the lower shots I took fried both of my drones so I couldn't go any lower! It was incredibly hot there standing near the flows, so it was worse for the drones.

[@stuart2071]

@@dronelaw that sounds expensive. I wonder what the operational temperature range is. Great vid.

[@dronelaw]

@@stuart2071 The batteries start to lose performance about 90 degrees F, and I thought I was high enough above the lava to avoid the 1,000 degrees + F temperatures there, but my drone provided me with evidence to the contrary,

[@catgynt9148]

Regarding the release of the “clog” that you mentioned, I had to look twice because it initially looked like a “dog was released.” Huh?

[@dronelaw]

Ha ha, that would have been one very scared dog if it had to outrun that lava stream.

[@GoCoyote]

I assume you made it back? Just amazing to see the changes and variety in this volcano.

[@dronelaw]

Ha ha, yes, back in my office in Carlsbad, California, but I'm already planning another trip back to my favorite volcano.

[@GoCoyote]

@@dronelaw Excuse me while I feel some cone/lava envy. I'm up outside of Auberry near Shaver Lake at the moment, but live in Mendocino county.

[@JonathanRootD]

Filling like a bathtub. That whole area will become part of the shield volcano.

[@dronelaw]

Unfortunately, a few weeks after I shot this the volcano stopped erupting. I hope to get back one day and recreate these videos over the cooled, hardened lava.

[@jimjimgl3]

Safe travels. I want to visit this natural spectacle. (Also, I am a photographer). Great footage. What size card is recording the data? Does it record 1080p? 4K? Looks so good.

[@dronelaw]

I use 64 and 128 cards, and switch them with every battery because the heat has trashed both of my drones to the point where the gimbals aren't working well and I've lost the distance sensors on the bottom of the drones, so I never know which flight will be the last for either drone.

[@mariadelordes5202]

Graças a Deus

[@chadatom]

Think you have the wrong berm - it just ran over an unauthorised bit of digging. The berm protecting the next valley looked fine on your nice video.

[@dronelaw]

They put up quite a few berms, the one at the top was to keep the lava from overrunning the switchbacks. They had other berms to the right of this lava flow, but they got overrun, and the berms at the bottom of the lava field held strong.

[@rockfishmiller]

Picked a great time to fly yer drone.

[@dronelaw]

Yes, I was very lucky on that! The volcano appears to be on vacation right now.

[@28105wsking]

We are just like moths to the flame. The lava completely mesmerizes us. And that is the great danger when it begins flooding.

[@dronelaw]

Exactly. You wouldn't believe how many times I just stared at my screen, not remembering that I had a drone up there, only to be awakened by my battery warning.

[@Limara64]

Thanks. X

[@cleusamaria551]

Q beleza dessa imagem!!!!

[@ThePlayfarer]

Mmm... burger sauce.

[@aliensounddigital8729]

Beautiful footage. Well done is just not for steak.

[@dronelaw]

HA HA! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@eugenybelaev9567]

Хороший ролик, длинный.

[@tlphoto]

Winter is coming! We better stock up on dragon glass.

[@bobbending]

"Look at the size of that rock!" I'm sure I could see Frodo and Sam riding it.

[@dronelaw]

Thank is exactly what I was thinking when I filmed it (except that it was terribly hot where I was and they wouldn't have lasted 5 seconds on that rock). Oh well, it made for a great movie anyway.

[@superpac1966]

I was on route A the day before wow

[@dronelaw]

So you can support my claim that the place can change radically every day!

[@geastomphorst]

👍👍👍

[@cababyboomerq6012]

At 17:10 it looks like the Grand Canyon of lava!

[@dronelaw]

YES! If I only had a non-flipping heat resistant kayak.

[@marlenaasprey4653]

Are the other mounds old lava flow?

[@dronelaw]

Yes, basically Iceland is one island covered with lava patches of varying ages. When you drive around, you can see some patches that are around 1,000 years old and covered with moss and lichen; others are older and are now farmland.

[@dinowenino3229]

That was a very lovely 48 minutes and 8 seconds of viewing pleasure. Thank you. Is there anything happening on the north side of the volcano?

[@dronelaw]

No, the north side is not active at all (for which I was thankful as the range of my drone was pretty much maxed out reaching the volcano's south side).

[@dinowenino3229]

Thank you for your reply.