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05-18-2020, 07:09 PM #26
One of my ex-GFs from PDX was on the summit of Mt. Hood that day and made this image.
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05-18-2020, 07:14 PM #27Banned
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05-18-2020, 07:20 PM #28
She showed me an old print of this (among other k00l pictures) and I assume that she still has the negative. She posted this on Douche Book today, and has posted it there in the past on this anniversary.
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05-18-2020, 07:49 PM #29
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05-18-2020, 07:50 PM #30
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05-18-2020, 07:52 PM #31Funky But Chic
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05-18-2020, 07:55 PM #32
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05-18-2020, 08:18 PM #33
The ash cloud made it around the world and dropped more dust on the second time past. Not sure how much of the second lap it managed, though.
There was a town near Ritzville (Kalotus?) that was still trying to attract travelers 20 years later with a sign that said "Drop in, Mt St Helens did!" I think they had a combine demolition derby, too. So the soil must have been ok, at least.
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05-18-2020, 09:27 PM #34
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05-18-2020, 09:40 PM #35glocal
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Sheeeeeat. The last time the caldera at Mammoth blew, they found rocks from what is now the Sierra in Missouri.
I flew a Cessna 210 right up through the cone (the dome was steaming) and over the ridge basically right where this shot was taken from about 50 feet above the edge. Coolest part was looking down on the south slope to see it had been all kinds of skied.
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05-18-2020, 10:21 PM #36
On my last trip down to the visitor center I learned the eruption cut off the outlet to Spirit Lake. Rather than let the lake rise and naturally cut a new outlet, a 1.6-mile-long outlet tunnel was built draining the lake into a basin it naturally would not drain into. Today, the tunnel is filling with sediment and needs to be replaced. If it were to collapse catastrophically (say, an earthquake) the town of Longview and I-5 would be completely buried in debris. Pretty amazing how geologically unstable that area still is today.
https://crosscut.com/2020/05/manmade...ount-st-helens
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05-18-2020, 10:25 PM #37
The crater also contains the youngest and fastest growing glacier in the US
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4...be-short-lived
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05-18-2020, 10:49 PM #38
That chart highlights one of my favorite geologic factoids. [edit, altasnob beat me to it while I fucked with pictures, shrug]
The top 1200ft or so was blown off the mountain, which removed the accumulation zones for the active glaciers on St.H's flanks. The lower reaches of those glaciers still remain, but only as semi-permanent snowfields which no longer flow. The exception is within the crater, where the North-facing steep shady walls created a new accumulation zone for the Crater glacier. It flows out the Breach, splitting around the growing lava dome. In 2008 the lobes rejoined on the north side, and it continues to advance. It is the youngest and fastest growing glacier on North America.
It gets skied quite a bit when the weather is good in the spring, and sleds are allowed on the SE flank. I've skied it several times. On a good snow year, you can glide from the summit right to the car at the Marble Mountain Sno-Park, 5700ft vert. The lava flows make cool swoopy terrain. In the summer it's a shit heap of ash and sand.
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lookin down the barrel of a huDge cannon:
South side:
Mt Adams / Pahto from St. Helens. THAT's a good ski hill:
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05-18-2020, 11:01 PM #39
remember this big ol cock o rock that emerged and quickly crumbled in 2005?
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05-18-2020, 11:08 PM #40Registered User
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Quality stuff. Thx
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05-18-2020, 11:15 PM #41
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05-19-2020, 08:06 AM #42
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05-19-2020, 08:30 AM #43
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05-19-2020, 08:44 AM #44
https://www.oregonlive.com/projects/mount-st-helens/
a few from that collection:
etc
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05-19-2020, 08:45 AM #45
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05-19-2020, 08:50 AM #46
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05-19-2020, 08:53 AM #47
Shattered timber still floats on Spirit Lake
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05-19-2020, 09:44 AM #48
I read that the guy who took these shots only survived because the blast was deflected by the ridge between him and the mountain.
Can you imagine seeing this in person? That must have taken some serious wherewithal to keep clicking the camera shutter while this was happening.
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05-19-2020, 10:02 AM #49Head down, push foreword
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I think that guy died in his truck fleeing but the images survived.
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05-19-2020, 10:22 AM #50
I'm having a hard time determining who took that sequence. There were two photographers who got shots of the mountain erupting from close range. Two guys who were camping together made it out, the other guy did not and his camera was discovered later.
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