While many of Etna's pyroclastic flank cones are very well visible, some are so densely vegetated that they merge almost perfectly with the surrounding forest. This is the case with Monte Capre, which is morphologically well preserved and probably much younger than nearby Monte Rosso (from which this photograph was taken). Yet one has to look carefully to recognize its crater rim, which bears somewhat less trees than its slopes and consists of dark gray pyroclastics. Actually Monte Capre has two summit craters and a third crater on its WSW side. The lower part of Etna's main edifice is seen in the background; view is to southeast. Photograph taken in September 2003

Mamma Etna's countless children
Monte Capre
W flank, 14.94093° E, 37.74256° N
Summit elevation: 1883 m (W rim of W crater)

Lying about 0.5 km from its conspicuous neighbor Monte Rosso, Monte Capre shows a slightly more complex morphology, with two east-west aligned craters in its summit area that lie about 0.22 km apart. The highest point of this cone, about 100 above its western base, lies on the western rim of the western crater. A third crater lies on the lower WSW side of the cone. Monte Capre is about as vegetated as Monte Rosso and presumably of similar age (a few thousand years old), although the age relationship between the two has not been established.
Monte Capre is among those cones of Etna which I have not climbed so far - I did pass on its western side in September 2003 but climbed only the nearby Monte Rosso.

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