Saturday, September 5, 2009

Saturday, August 22, 2009 Mt. St. Helens

We wake up early with Gerrit’s breakfast on the lake and then up the hill still shrouded in mist.
These trees were blown down by the sideways eruption. They're all neatly lined up in the direction of the hot ash blast.

Head up the last Visitor Center. Here's a picture of what the mountain used to look like. We see a fabulous movie of the story of the eruption.


Finally get a view of the Mt. in all its blown out glory. This is interesting for myia as she was in Seattle at the time and Moved shortly after so has never been here before.
We take a hike with the Ranger and learn more geological and volcanology before heading down toward Portland thru the Columbia river where we sleep.


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