fromPortland Monthly
1 week agoA Visitor's Guide to Mount St. Helens
Pre-eruption, the symmetry of St. Helens earned it comparisons to Fuji. But the Cascades' youngest volcano is also the most volatile, and 46 years ago it remade itself. The summit fell about 1,300 feet (current elevation: 8,363 feet), and debris avalanches, mudflows, and scorching, steam-driven blasts transformed the surrounding landscape. Today, the mountain beckons as both laboratory-geologists watch the crater's slow-growing lava dome as ecologists chronicle returning plants and animals-and adventure destination.
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