06-04-2018, 05:04 AM
You can blame the proliferation of lawyers since Twain's time and even 1955 for the authorities not letting sightseers near the lava. I remember going right up to molten lava as child in the 70s in HVNP. My rubber slippers started to melt where I was standing on not so cooled lava. People were throwing pennies in and scooping them out. Not so many lawsuits back them if someone did get hurt.