Hike to Harry’s Ridge
Is it the Alaskan tundra? The high moors of Scotland? No, it’s the desolate high country of Mt. St. Helens— seemingly barren from a distance, yet teeming[Read More…]
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Ape Canyon Trail
Mt. St. Helens offers a wide variety of adventures for those who are looking to get away from the claustrophobic northwest trail. Nine miles from[Read More…]
Snowshoeing Coldwater Lake Loop – Mt St Helens
Winter’s harshness has ended, by calendar only. Keep your fingers crossed. If your like me, your screaming for spring, and especially summer!! Winter still has it’s[Read More…]
August Photos by Erik
This week’s featured photographer is Erik Turner. He recently climbed Mt St Helens and brought back these beauties. He also wrote an article about his Mt St Helens trip. You can see more of his photos there as well.
Climbing Mt St Helens
Now onto the fun facts: there are two main climbing trail heads, Marble Mountain snowpark and Climber’s Bivouac map here. The latter cuts off a good chunk of elevation again, but requires that you wait until later in the year when it is opened (as of the writing of this article, it is not yet open for 2011). In my opinion it’s much better to climb when there is consistent snow- easier to kick steps and fun to glissade (or ski!) down.
Rebirth of Mt St Helens – Part 2
Special mention must of course be made for Spirit Lake, accessible only via the Harmony trail. Buried under avalanche debris and scorched by searing hot gases from the blast cloud, the lake at first was indistinguishable from the surrounding blasted landscape. Initial reports in local newspapers said the lake was “gone”, and it was only later that they determined that the felled forest and mud were simply floating on its surface.
The Rebirth of Mt. St. Helens Part 1
The first thing to understand when looking at a reborn Mt. St. Helens, is that the recovery has been a patchwork. Different environments and locations within the mountain have benefited in different ways depending not only on the intensity of the blast at a given location, but also dependent on topography and what the conditions were like before the eruption, as well as what new conditions have evolved as time has progressed.
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