Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Seeing as the weather was going to continue to be georgous we headed over to Mt. St. Helens. What you see in this picture are weathered logs still floating on top of Spirit Lake. For those of you who may have forgotten, Mt. St. Helen's erupted in 1980. Today one can still see the devastation of how the eruption has reshaped the landscape.

When we first arrived to Windy Ridge the mountain top was covered in clouds.


This is about an hour later when the clouds lifted. Notice the right side of picture which is the north side of the mountain top. This is where the mountain bulged then erupted blasting away everything in its path.

Spirit Lake has returned but note the lack of vegatation around it.