Hi Alfred, Thanks for contacting us regarding your trip to Unimak next summer. We will have staff on the island at some point next summer as well, however, we will only be near Shishaldin if our data and observations indicate it's safe. Please make sure you check in with us before you make plans to visit Shishaldin. It is currently erupting and if you are on-island, eruptive activity can escalate with little warning, producing pyroclastic flows, ash fall, lahars (mudflows), and lava flows. Flowage events can affect all aspects of the volcano and drainages can be dangerous from the summit all the way to the coast. Ash fall can affect all areas of the island, depending on wind direction. Shishaldin is in an active state of eruption and snow and ice conditions will remain unstable for many months. Heavy rains will continue to produce dangerous lahars even several months after eruptive activity has ceased as loose ash and rocks on the snow surface mixed with rain cause significant erosion and mudflows affecting all drainages that source on Shishaldin volcano. You can access volcanic information several ways. - our website: www.avo.alaska.edu - sign up for text/email alerts: https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vns2/ - or call us 907-786-7497 Please give us a call or check our website for the latest information before you make plans to visit the island. Thanks again for contacting us. -Janet -------- Alfred Smith wrote: Good day. I plan to be visiting Unimak next summer to climb and ski. I am willing to collect info for AVO on Round Top, Isanotski and Shishaldin if it would be useful. I am 58, in good health and I like AVO and the Aleutians. Let me know if I can be useful.