Mt. St. Helens today

Mt. St. Helens and the riverbed today . You can see the new trees that have been planted. Notice the riverbed and how the hummack, trees and ash are still there today after 27 years! Notice the size of the river today and think of that entire gray area being covered in a 40 mph fast flowing mud and log jam. Some of the ash has hardened like lava.

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Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

July 8th 2007
Our most exciting visit to date was to Mt. St. Helens. We had no idea of the devastation this area suffered from the violent volcanic eruption that occurred at 8:32a.m on Sunday, May 18, 1980. Compare the two pictures of the mountain before May 18th and then after May 18th. Geologists call Mt. St. Helens a composite volcano(or stratovolcano), a term for steep-sided, often symmetrical cones cons ... read more

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