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Every time you erect a tent or camp in the wilderness, and especially in mountainous regions, be aware of floods and water streams. Finding a dry water or river bed does not mean that the place is safe for camping, even if it seems to have been in that state for a while.

If it rains, even quite distantly, the riverbed could start being flooded, and you will be lucky if it happens slowly. If you are unlucky, you will become the victim of a flash flood.

In areas close to active volcanoes, eruptions may melt glaciers and snow lying near the crater and produce huge mudslides known as lahars. A lahar can be taller more than 30 m high and will destroy absolutely everything in its path. As it advances at very high speeds - in excess of 100 km/h - it will literally engulf rocks, trees and integrate them into its own destructive mass.

The best way to avoid these dangers that may seriously compromise your own integrity and survival is to camp on high places and never inside valleys, especially deep and narrow ones. The narrower and deeper the valley or canyon is, the biggest the risk of a sudden flash flood or lahar.

Bear in mind also that a closed canyon with vertical walls on each side will present serious difficulties for escape.

If you notice that a flash flood or lahar is approaching your cam, leave everything behind and seek for high ground, running uphill perpendicularly to the course of the flux. Don't wait a second to do so, and try to go as high as possible; trees and small rocks will do no good.