I was 8 years old when St. Helens erupted. My Great Uncle owned part of the mountainside, and had cabins on it he rented out to people. That big crater facing the side of the lake is where those cabins used to be, and luckily no one was staying in any at the time. He had a ranch house in the area with animals, and his house was buried over the rooftop with ash. He and his wife both survived.
Wow your survive the eruption on Mt St Helens that same as my grandpa James and he was a loger of Mt St Helens he saw it and he survived the eruption of that eruption?
@@korndogz69 I was a little kids in that eruption and such but you can't be that was eruption from 1980 to 2004 and that I was born February 12. Some Nascar driver on Born in 1980 Mt St Helens was in eruption. Kasey Kane , Danny Hamlin and Martin truex Jr and they both born in 1980. You not know believe that.
Great video. I was a teenager when this happened, and a couple years later, I purchased a little castle that was made out of the ash as a souvenir. So 2 yrs ago I met a guy at work, and find out he is the one that hauled a couple semi-loads of ash out of there, and had all kinds of souvenirs made with the ash. I pulled out my little castle and he pulled out pictures and he still has the same castle. Small world for sure.
Really excellent job young man! I was in my home, in Vancouver, Canada, just finished showing. I was making breakfast when there was a HUGE bang. It felt like a truck rammed into the house. I went out in the paved lane and found a never before Crack was now running from the top of our chimney to about half way. I later found out is was the shock wave from Mt. Saint Helens eruption. My home was, as a crow flies, 290.3 miles away.
I was 15 and living in Shelton, WA when it erupted. Shelton is 2 hours away and the noise was so loud I thought 2 speeding logging trucks had a head on collision in front of my house. I jumped out of bed and ran out to the street expecting to see brutal wreckage. Instead I saw the plume from the eruption. My first thought was that the Russians had dropped an atomic bomb, the plume looked just like pictures I have seen on TV. After the initial panic I remember being relieved it was “only” a volcano. After the plume left it was unbelievably eerie to look down the road and see nothing where a beautiful volcano used to rise above the trees. In 1981 I flew from Sea/Tac to San Jose and the view from the plane was crazy, it looked like a seen from an Apocalypse movie. You could see the direction the ash went, it spread out from the mountain to the East. The trees that were knocked down from the blast were all laying the same direction, away from the blast.
I grew up here. Spent a lot of time at the Mountain before it erupted and after. It changed SO much literally in a matter of seconds. Places I went are no longer there. Buried and gone. The destruction was massive. Lives were lost. A place that was once so beautiful, so different now.
As a Private First Class in the Army and stationed at Fort Lewis, we were ordered to the mountain about 10 am on 18 May 1980. We hauled fuel for the helicopters for the rescue efforts. First a bivouac at Kelso so Jimmy Carter could stop by. Then moved on to Toutle airport so the choppers would be closer to the mountain. The old girl went off again Monday morning scaring the crap out of us all. Ash was 3 to 5 inches deep on everything within sight. There was a morgue set up for the bodies to be identified. An experience that will live with me forever. There are no words to express what we saw or did. It looked like the moon's surface or a war zone. This was a good video and a walk back in time for me.
This video gave me chills. I grew up in WA State and was in Eastern WA when Mt. Saint Helens erupted. It was scary. You couldn't even see your hand in front of your face because the ash was so thick. And back then there was no 24/7 cable news to find out what was happening. It was like the end of the world happened. When the ash started creeping into the house we all ended up in my Grand Fathers small underground wine cellar with a hand held radio trying to get a signal enough to find out what was happening. It was a week and a half later before we dug the car out of the ash and was able to slowly drive with very little visibility out of Easter WA. It was releif when we finally got out of there and onto the other side of the mountains. The air in Seattle was still really ashy but I remember seeing a ray of sunshine trying to Break through and you could at least see 20 feet in front of you. I have never under estimated that mountain since & always get a bad feeling when near it to this day. The landscape is nothing as it was but at least trees started growing again. It's not a Baren waste land as it was for many years after the volcano. Like I said in the beginning, I was getting chills watching you in this video just knowing what happened and what still can happen at anytime. Mt. Saint Helens and Mt. Rainier that was showing behind you in the video are both Ticking time bombs & someday it one of the two will blow again. I know this video is old but Thanks for sharing.
Most of my family has lived in Washington State since my great grandparents settled there in the late 1800's generations. Some of them lived in towns where everyone got snow shovels and dug out the ash like it was snow, really heavy snow.
Thank U for the Incredible journey. I am disabled so I would never be able to see this 1st hand!! Please be Careful on your journeys....God Bless You!!
@@okami-san6675 Thank You!! You also are Very Nice to Bless Me!!.....I try to be nice & treat everyone the same way that I would like to be Treated.....Much Love & Blessings to U 🌻💜🌻
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Thank you for doing this. I am getting on in years and would never be able to make the climb to see it now. I was 35 when the eruption happened. It was a huge HUGE event, that captured the nation's attention for weeks.
Today is 7 Feb. 2021, I am 78 and what a wonderful way to see Mt. St. Helens, letting a young man do all the climbing for me.. Sights I would never see in any other way. Thank you so much.
@@LaserGuy1 It would be funny if it does. I know there are older fridges that lasted a long time (although they were energy hogs) but that would be one interesting test.
I remember this day very well. I lived in Springfield, Oregon about 200 miles South of Mt. St. Helens. The sky was grey and ash was falling. I could not believe what I was seeing. It was sad to think about all the people who lived closer and about those who lost their lives that day. Thank you for sharing this. I have often wondered how it looked today.
And considering the distance the wind was blowing to the East when the eruption happened which is why Yakima was covered & Portland barely got any ash.
He did mention it right at the beginning. He showed all those trees laying on the ground, and stated how they were all blown off the mountain in the explosion.
I was almost 17 when this happened. Thanks for bringing this back to life for those of us who remember it. What a thrill this must have been for you. Nice job!
Just an FYI, the trees in Spirit Lake, for the most part, were not blown into the lake by the volcanic blast. Rather, the landslide that came off the collapsing north flank of the volcano plunged into the lake, sending a gargantuan wave up the north slope behind the lake. That wave denuded the hillside, bringing the trees into the lake and creating the raft of logs you still see today.
@@Rokynutz thats so obviously a bulldozer, it has a winch not a claw, the blade is right there, and look at the picture at 6:51 and tell me tha thats not a dozer. The cabs being identical doesn't mean anything if they are both cats.
Chrysler dissected some emergency vehicles from the Mt.St. Helen's area. I was one of the mechanics. It was amazing to me how the ash totally clogs the air inlet in 10 minutes but further in the engine bearings are ruined and the wheel bearings and alternator bearings are shot to. All failed within minutes. There was a cop that understood the choking of the air filter and cleaned (shook the ash out) every couple minutes. Saving his life and giving us the best example of ash intrusion to a operating car.
Great comment Don, yeah I bet that dust soaks up oil and grease quick and the bearings destroy themselves. Now imagine what it would do to your eyes and lungs. Horrible.
When that first eruption went off, the plum was carried east for several states. I saw news photos of Yakima and Spokane police cars with panyhose stretched over the engine's aircleaners as a "pre-filter" and apparently it was fairly effective. They had a hell of a time getting the ladies wearing them to sit still, but it worked pretty well!! ;^)
That’s so fascinating! I know nothing about cars, would have most certainly sucked ash and died. There was another commenter here who mentioned driving a 69 VW van with an air cooled engine the day of the eruption, and having to change his plans and stick around in the area for 3 months before he could be sure engine would survive the drive. Smart decision!
I watched it erupt when I was 7 years old. I will never forget the eruption and how the day turned to night because of the ash. Silly to think about it now but we all wore masks for a few weeks after the eruption. I also remember camping up at Spirit lake before and after the eruption and how much it had changed the landscape. Crazy to think this happened 41 years ago. Great video
Awesome touch adding the side by side photos. As well as the input of audio maps from after it erupted. Not many put the little extra things that make a huge difference then had it not been added. Class act
Jay Lew those additions added huge points in my book. It really helps someone like me who isn’t familiar with the area so we can really see how things were affected
The people who invented the atomic bomb knew they weren't as powerful. Now a Nuclear bomb, like the tsar bomb is getting closer, but not by much. ( I understand this commented is a joke)
Fascinating. Well done documentation of what you found. Your voice conveys the awe of what it was like to see these things up close 37 years later. Your respectful tone is also appreciated. A lot of people died that day.
Karen W I definitely agree. I just started watching these type of videos and I've came to enjoy his vids the most. It's almost like you're walking right along side with him. Very fun to watch and listen!!
Thank you kindly for posting this, do to my muscle disease ide never be able to see these without people like u sharing your experience and journey with us.
I lived in Gresham OR when it blew. What a mess. I breathed in too much ash even though I tried to protect myself and husband and kids. I'm 72 now with severe problems with my lungs. I've been told that a lot of the problem was the ash. I have several books about the explosion and they tell the whole story in pictures. And I will always say "God bless you, Harry Truman". What a story he lived.
I live there now and I’m 24 just trying to picture this whole thing what was it like here? Grey ash everywhere I imagine but genuinely just wanting to learn more if you mind sharing.
May, 1980, we were fishing the Satsop river when a big "boom" made the ground shake. We jumped up and threw gear in the car and raced for home. The ash was like driving in a Blizzard. The ash scraped the windshield and ruined it. It was hard to breathe. No one went anywhere for a couple days.
In mathematics, one radian of a circle is 57.3 degrees! A possible coincidental meaning in 57? Did Mout St. HELENS give out one radian of fumes to cover 57 People?
Same goes for my dad, just he was on a business trip with his boss and the CEO when a nearby volcano erupted Edit: The ashes went for about 300+ miles, he only rely on Google Maps, this was about 4 or 5 years ago
I want to say thank you to you for exploring and recording this. I was 20 when this happened. I was living in California. We watched on the news in amazement. I've always wondered about it but I never would have seen it if you hadn't went to all the trouble to do this so thank you.
I live in New England, and was 24 when St Helens erupted. I distinctly recall some TV station interviewing Mr Truman, and him committing to stay & ride it out. This eruption was a major national event that was well advertised long before the fact. Great job on this video, young man!
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Pretty sure after everything was finally over and rescue crews could go in , they got all the bodies out there of the obvious spots such as ones in the vehicles, so the chance of him finding a skeleton there was slim. The ones no one could find chances are were either buried so deep in the ash and mud that they’d be impossible for someone to just “stumble” upon, or they were burnt to ash themselves and/ripped apart from the explosive eruption that you’d never find an even remotely complete body.
Logging equipment was outside the original "red zone". It was Sunday morning, no one was working those sites. Ditto for the Weyerhauser Log Yard which was flooded out by the mud. There was a crew on the fringes, that were hit by the hot ash, but all 4 survived, if I remember correctly. Only Johnson on the ridge, & Harry at his hotel on Spirit Lake, of known victims, were never recovered.
Reason being, the tectonic plate on which these volcanos are isnt moving as much as, for example, the Hawaiian islands, where its basically like a conveyor belt moving over the magma source, creating a volcano that grows to an island, spits lava for a while and eventually is cut off from the magma source as the plate moves past it. Then a new volcano forms at the bottom of the ocean, grows to an island, spits lava for a period of time and dies... There are, however, expected to be a few more very dangerous volcanos bubbling up in the region. Its not just St. Helens by any means...
They ALWAYS die completely, at some point. There are, or have been, far more completely inert former volcanoes, than there are active ones. Four and a half billion years is a long time, to put it mildly, and most of the Earth's original crust has long since been subducted into the mantle, and along with it, any volcanoes that were once a feature of that original crust. Beyond that, there are still former volcanoes, in "modern" crust, which still exist, some of which are still clearly volcanic in origin, yet which are absolutely dead, being cut off from their magma sources, rendering them just another piece of terrain feature. Just because there are active volcanoes, some of which have been around many thousands of years, and some of them remain dormant, doesn't mean that they seldom die. It's just a matter of geological perspective vs. human perspective. The volcanoes always die, but vulcanism hasn't yet "died" either, though it too will also cease someday, as will the planet itself...
The new thing to watch out for on Mt. Saint Helens is the Glacier forming at the top. If it gets too big, even a smaller eruption could melt it into a devastating Lahar (superheated ash and mud flow). This would easily cause immense destruction downriver of the volcano, without needing to be as large of an eruption as last time because the side has already been blown wide open.
Amazing Video. So nice to not have annoying and distracting music or inappropriate commentary. Your genuine wonder and excitement of touring this incredible landscape were well expressed. You put so much effort into delving into interesting gems off the beaten path. Thanks so much for sharing the view of a place I and so many would love to explore!
Cool video bro. Here's some info I found about the trees from the Weyerhauser website. "1. Salvage Salvage and recovery plans began immediately. Much of the downed timber could be used, but was at great risk of insect damage and disease. Quick work was needed, but safely. After a government study to assess the hazards of working in ash finished, full-scale salvage began. More than 1,000 people were involved in the salvage efforts. Up to 600 truckloads of downed logs were removed each day. Salvage work continued for nearly two years. The efforts helped save 850 million board feet of timber, enough to build 85,000 three-bedroom homes."
@@geoffreyholland328 the academy gives the academy award, bet gives the bet awards...... now wwho the heck you think give the idiot award? fricking idiot. let this serve as proof that you dont think. smh @ ur dumb ass keep believing everything ppl tell you, THAT is idiotic, nut. Go figure yourself out
@@geoffreyholland328 thanksa for proving my point idiot........ how do you know about this tree recovery again.....???? i didnt say it was a conspiracy IDIOT. I said savage my arse. Can you even explain a volcano? NOPE reason why you think wwhat you do. Please tell me how you know about these trees..... as if you been followwing the story for 2 years.... oh yeah i forgot you think I AM the idiot. you believe every story a comedian tell too, dont you? there is no reason to believe them ust as much as there is reason to. YOU DONT KNOW SHIT. all you did wwas spit to us from what someone else said/wrote/ Give me a couple of companies that participated so maybe i can track down some more info to come back here with. How deep did you WIKIPEDIA? IDIOT
I was born in Portland Or in 77. One of my earliest memories is watching my dad clear ash off our car in the driveway with a mask on. I can remember thinking it was snow and wanting to go out and play. I don’t know about today but back in the 90s and early 00s you could dig down to ash in our yard.
Doc Leadpill my mother has a photo of an inch of ash on her car in southeast Portland everywhere within a 500 mile radius got at least a dusting of ash my uncle in Bozeman Montana got ash
As a local resident, I love that people appreciate the mountain and its history. I am also a day hiker and have been on trails around the mountain many times. Hiker etiquette is to always stay on the trail. And in the Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, it is posted everywhere that the land is protected to allow the habitat to regenerate naturally. I appreciate much of this video, but please, respect the land and stay on the trail.
@@sylvieanderson2779 It's really not that bad Sylvie. I've done it a dozen times, even with my 8yo kids at the time. It's not scary, it's not hard except in a couple of spots. But even they weren't anything of concern.
My family and I lived there for 2 years. My step dad was in the Army stationed at Ft Lewis. We moved 2 weeks before the eruption. Our old house was destroyed. I was 3 years old. Also it’s neat you can see Mt Rainier in the distance. It’s about 50 miles away
It’s like hiking and you’re doing the hard part. I can quit anytime I want and go lay down on the couch, in fact, it’s virtual hiking while laying on the coach and snacking on chips. This is great.
My wife and I traveled to Mt. St. Helens in 2009, and I have been all throughout the U.S......this was probably the most spectacular sight I have ever seen. Thanks for the incredible video my friend!
Stop crying about swear words. She's gonna hear swearing anyways and the more people are making that shit taboo the more the kids will be wanting to explore it. Why are people so stupid ....
+ Michael Hoffpauir Maybe people are getting smarter... www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015-12-17/study-people-who-swear-more-are-smarter-have-larger-vocabulary They're just words, after all.
A few years after St Helen's erupted, I was in junior high school. I remember kids that went there on vacation, would bring back ash in a bottle. Stores would sell them as souvenirs.
I. From Aussie and always loved anything about Mount St Helens. I’ve got the movie, read what I could. And you just gave me a lovely surprise ( for my Birthday a few days ago) and showed me what the inner volcano that I would never get to see. Thank you for the wonderful job your doing. From a old Gal in Aussie 😊🙏🏻🇦🇺
I absolutely loved this video.. I was 9 when the mountain blew. My family and I lived in a little town called cinebar washington about 30 miles north west of the blast zone. We were camping at the ocean having a weekend claming and fishing trip when the mountain blew. We woke up that morning at the beach and all our plans were cancelled in an instant. We headed home to find 6 inches of ash on everything and it was still falling. It was deathly silent and it was almost as if it had snowed but no, it was ash covering everything. We had to wear masks to go outside. My uncle was part of the rescue teams going in and out trying to find survivors. The last time I set foot on Mt St Helens was around 1992. The shrubs were just starting to re-appear. In fact I don't believe I saw one that was taller then 3 to 4 feet high, and I think they were going around trying to see if they could replant trees in certain places. To see so much has grown in the last 25 plus years is very heart warming. I now live in the mid west and have always wondered if life was continuing to grow. It seems it has. I remember the first animal I saw when I was up there last. It was a squirrel at a look out point on the side of the road. Some one was trying to pet it and got bit. I will always get a giggle out of that. How easily we forget that wild life is just that wild. Anyways it is good to see underbrush finally taking hold along with the trees. It was so desolate even back then 11 years after it happened. It was miles and miles and miles of nothing but blown over trees and grey powdery ash and pumice. I even hiked down to spirit lake. It was just full of nothing but dead burned trees. Nothing like it is now. You can see the water now. Before it was nothing but those dead grey burned trees on top of the lake. Amazing video! Thank you so much for letting me get a peak at a place I have always thought about.
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Although I live a few thousand miles away I remember the eruption coverage on the news. I'd only been in Canada for about seven months. I've since read accounts by survivors of the eruption and the magnitude of it just baffles the mind. Your hikes up the mountain helps to scale the enormity of the eruption. The current crater looks like a huge open pit mine that would have taken humans fifty years to produce. Mother nature did it in seconds and we think we can control the earth with our silly laws and activities. That one eruption probably expended more energy than man has used in ten years. It truly boggles the mind. Thanks for undertaking this project. I wish you well on your future endeavours. Thanks from Canada's banana belt. 👍🇺🇲🌞🇺🇦🕊️🇨🇦🍌🥋🤞
Sounded like a Merlin. Prop driven aircraft. Either a spitfire or mustang. Theres the museum of flight and another group that have a great collection of classic war birds that fly.
I truly appreciated this breathtaking video! When you made it to the top, and saw the miles and miles of mountains, and scars from the eruption, that had to feel emotional.
Nearly new 37 year old tires. Uniroyal doesn't even make semi tires any more. Wow....amazing. And that tree growing up through that other one. Frozen in time. Standing on the volcanoes rim must have been completely awesome....certainly looked it!! Awesome stuff!
I was a senior in high school in 1980 I was living with my family at the Southwest Washington fairgrounds at the time My father was the security chief and caretaker of the fairgrounds when not saying helens blew are top again a week later we had a cattle show on the grounds well Louis county got that 2nd dose of ash and the cattle people had only brought enough seed for a few days for the show and a lot of the local farmers and feed stores were able to help them out with their feed for the cattle and because of the ash we seniors at Central High school were unable to finish our last week of school therefore we got out of final exams so what the teachers did was you either got an F for failure or P for passing From what I understand a lot of out of state colleges that the seniors applied to were looked at very suspicious
I was a junior in high school living in the foothills of the cascades between Mount Rainer and Mt St Helen's...I will never forget that day...so surreal...it went from daytime to almost dark immediately and the ash fell like heavy snow covering everything in inches of Grey ash...not far from where I was folks were dying...when she went it was like the biggest bomb a person could ever imagine...I feel very fortunate to be here.
That was a fantastically captured journey. I've been fascinated by that eruption since I was 3 years old. I've always thought the scale of it is impossible to capture in pictures and video. It truly looked like you were a 5 minute walk from the lava dome when you got to the rim. I can remember how small the dome started out as after the 1980 eruption. And over the past 4 decades, you can truly see the mountain rebuilding itself. Truly fascinating! It's really amazing to wonder how many times that mountain has blown itself apart and rebuilt itself. Just going out to Washington and seeing it from the observatory is at the very top of my bucket list. Great job, dude!
I have lived in SW Washington my whole life and you really captivated me with this video. I flew over St. Helens when it was "in danger" of erupting in 2004 with the US Navy. Huge Huge fan of this video. Thank you for content. New sub
Really enjoyed this video. I remember the eruption in 1980. I visited there in 1998. But we never got to see anywhere near as much as what you were able to show us in this video. Thanks for all the hard work you put in to make it!
This is a great video, thank you very much for all your efforts. I remember when Mt. St. Helens erupted. My supervisor, at a job I had at the time, had just gotten his car painted. It was a early 1960s mercury, either a comet or a Monterrey, I forget which. He had to keep that car in his garage until there was no more ash in the air.
Well you need to understand that when this volcano blew up there would’ve been more deaths if the scientist their hadn’t warned them and if the government hadn’t listened. This volcano is still incredibly active, they want to keep it safe and let the landscape develop.
Hollywood if it was free, dozens of people would be going a day, increasing the risk of more people dying if something were to happen again. Also what’s wrong with getting some extra money from some tourism? This isn’t the USSR, you have to pay to see cool things.
I spent a couple years replanting trees in the blast zone, a big part of that in the Green River drainage, which took the full force of the blast. I remember seeing where a Douglas fir, fully 8 feet through, was snapped about 7 feet off the ground, with the tree laying 50 feet from the stump. Driving into the zone on roads plowed through deep ash, almost like being in a long, gray tunnel. Pretty wild! At first, Weyerhauser had us digging through the ash to mineral soil to plant, until Fish and Wildlife told them the deep holes would cause the elk to break their legs, after which we just planted them in the ash...and they seem to have done just fine.
Thank you for doing all the hard work needed to help recovery we see today. Did you notice the build up, in the crator, of the domes? Hot and smoking areas then and now.
I have now lived on the north and south side of St Helens and that restaurant has my absolute favorite burger. Most gorgeous area I've ever been to in person
Super cool video. I got a cool story about that day. I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦. We were in our living room and we heard this enormous boooom. We had a very large front window. 6 x 8 feet. You could see the glass shaking. We all looked at each other “like what the hell”. And then all you could hear was dogs barking like crazy. It scared the hell out of them too. My mom immediately turned on the radio ( they didn’t have almost instant tv coverage back then ). And within a moment or two the broadcast said Mt. St. Helens erupted. This boom was loud, so loud the pressure wave was able to shake that window. I don’t know the exact distance between us and the eruption, but I know it’s a hell of a long way. I still remember it clear as day. What an enormous explosion.
So cool! I've had people not believe me about how the sound wave traveled, but I was living on the other side of the state north/west of Spokane (just south of Grand Forks, BC) and we heard and felt the boom when it went off. Definitely a "where were you when...?" generational question for those of us old enough to remember it.
lunarfriday : isn’t it strange how it traveled that far. The Columbian was a news paper up here decades ago and they had a special edition all about the eruption. I still had it up till a few years back. Wish I didn’t lose it. The paper even commented on the boom.
Lived in so cal when this happened..within seconds it was all changed.. incredible ❤ thank you for making the hike 🙂 I was an avid hiker but injuries ended that so thank you so much for taking me on this journey
Same. Went to Mt. St. Helen's twice but am too old to do serious hiking. Thank you for taking me to places I cannot go anymore (actually probably couldn't have done it when I was young either!). The place is unbelievably beautiful from the lookouts, and zooming in with a long lens the details are amazing. The scale of the place as you noted is hard to comprehend.
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The lesson from this disaster; never take mother nature lightly. Some people ignored the warnings to evacuate and died as a result. I do find it interesting that neither vandals or scrappers have gone after the abandoned items strewn about the place.
Please I lived though this we were covered in ash for years and still have lots left in our town from It if anyone around here wanted it they would of done so years ago no one wants to relive the horrific deviating event over again nor take the time to travel up there if there that desperate for money then they probley don’t have the money to make the Trek there
I keep coming back to this video. I have a fascination of sorts with that eruption, (at the time though, I was only a 3 year old here in the UK) and something keeps pulling me back to this. Amazing stuff! Hope you had a good long rest after that!
I'm just a bit older and my grandparents lived in Washington at the time hundreds of miles from the volcano. Falling ash covered everything and my grandpa just sprayed everything off with the hose. That night watching the news he learned it's destructive and dangerous to mix ash and water. The mixture produces lye/caustic soda/sodium hydroxide with a pH close to 14.
Ill Never forget that Sunday morning. Climbed her 3 yrs prior to blowin her cork then climbed her again 16 yrs after she blew. Spent most of my youth from age 8 to 36 trompin those woods. Spent most summers camping at June lake or at pine Creek and most fall/winters hunting deer and elk in those woods, wore many a boots out trompin that country... Sure do miss it some days..
Cayden Thompson No, there is a small lake on the south base (just below timber line) of Mt. St. Helen's. It is a good hike in on an old trail, good workout on the legs...
gfy, I seen it on the news about the volcano in your country on white,s island, I don't understand why some of those people would get on the island knowing that volcano is about ready to Erupt. When Mount St, Helens, erupted I was in the Us Army, and stationd at Fort Knox, Kentucky, I remember seeing it on the news.
@Gregster Exactly, they even gave evacuation orders before the Mount St. Helens eruption, so I'm wondering the same thing. Almost everyone who didn't evacuate died. You'd think they would've got those people off the island, especially because I heard a lot of them were tourists with guides
@@esco5593 Most the St Helen blast victims were Outside the Red Zone. Only two were inside: Johnson, as a researcher observer, placed well past what they thought would be a deadly location, & Harry, at Spirit Lake, who refused to evacuate. There was a logging crew doing maintenance on the red zone fringes, who survived. Every other victim were at the wrong place at the wrong time. No expert expected the mountain to erupt to the side the way it did. That the experts know NOW it is possible doesn't negate they didn't know then. The "Red Zone" then was inadequate.
That was really fantastic. Your footage of the torn crest of the volcano was especially incredible. Trying to imagine the sheer scale .... the noise, the violence, the release of pent up energy and heat at the top where you were filming .... terrifying.
A well-done video. You presented it as you saw it, described what you saw, and didn't presume to identify what you couldn't. Well done indeed for that alone, the visuals were excellent!
I hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls on the side of Mount Hood shortly after the eruption and spent the day watching the ash plume. I was touring the U.S. in a 1969 VW van and, of course, the engine was air cooled. I was trapped in the Portland area for 3 months waiting for the ash to clear. You see, the very abrasive ash would have destroyed my engine. I left there and spent another year touring this glorious country before returning home to northeast Texas. I still have a small bottle of ash. Live your bucket list while you are young! Don't wait until you're old! That too late! Go out and see the volcanos while you can!!!
HELLYES TOM!!! We leave next month when our 5yr old gets trache out-was a 24wkr and hes ready to see this beautiful state/country we live in!! Still have ash from my dads truck/he was on Toutle i believe or river right next too it when she blew!! SEIZE THE DAY.
30 too old to travel and explore? That's just you making up reasons not to take a big step in life. History is filled with adventurous adults who discovered both them selfes and great places. My 40+ year old brother brings his whole family around the globe on off the tracks locations, I'm well over 30 and working on a travel plan to recreate a family members shiplog during WWII. My grandmas first flight was when she was 80, going to Venice because she liked photos of the sculptures and plazas. It's all possible. Godspeed, Daniel.
You are NEVER too young to enjoy life! I'm 51 and I'm going on a cruise to the Bahamas in January. Sure cruising can be kind of tame by some people's standards, but it's still an adventure. Whatever the adventure is, do it! No matter how old you are, figure out how. You only regret the road not taken. 😃
I was only 2 months old when this happened. My mom remembers that day- seeing the ash fall down over Seattle, mistaking it for snow! We still have a Christmas ornament made from the lava and ash from the blast. And then, 37 years later, my son was born on May 18th. Beautiful footage!
Never underestimate the amount of nutrients the ash holds from a volcanic eruption. Some of the best soil known to man was created from volcanic eruptions from the past.
Vince Callagher it IS sad. I felt Harry's pain at the thought of leaving his everything. At his age it would have killed him. It's horrific to think of the way he died. RIP Harry.
I remember going up to the turn around on the mountain an innertubing down the slopes. The Toutle river valley was so beautiful. You can't imagine the size of the trees. I also know the owners of the A Frame as well. Good people.. They own the souviner shop next door. They were about to put the cap on the chimney right before the mud came. That truck was in the direct blast zone about 10 miles from where it sits. I'll never forget May 18th 1980. It changed the course of my life forever, but it was sure something to behold happening in your own back yard.
Really enjoyed your video. I'm glad you hiked up there for me, because I would not have made it. Nature is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. I've done some spelunking in Colorado, so the lava tube brought back awesome memories. Amazing. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for this! I took my kids up there two weeks ago and didn’t have the time to go looking for all these neat things you found. Can’t wait to show them your vid.👏🏼👏🏼
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I was 8 years old when St. Helens erupted. My Great Uncle owned part of the mountainside, and had cabins on it he rented out to people. That big crater facing the side of the lake is where those cabins used to be, and luckily no one was staying in any at the time. He had a ranch house in the area with animals, and his house was buried over the rooftop with ash. He and his wife both survived.
Wow your survive the eruption on Mt St Helens that same as my grandpa James and he was a loger of Mt St Helens he saw it and he survived the eruption of that eruption?
@@TerriZandecki I've personally never been to Washington state. It was my Uncle who was there. I remember seeing it on TV when I was 8.
@@korndogz69 so you watch it.
No he didn’t.
@@korndogz69 I was a little kids in that eruption
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such but you can't be that was
eruption from 1980 to 2004 and that
I was born February 12.
Some Nascar driver on Born in 1980 Mt St Helens was in eruption.
Kasey Kane , Danny Hamlin and Martin truex Jr and they both born in 1980.
You not know believe that.
A logging truck with a tree growing through it and a bulldozer buried in the dirt. Anyone else see the irony?
Aaron H. Yeah
Nothing more powerful than nature.
That truck is from warehouser in longview and is where I was raised warehouser is a huge lumber company stil
Kaeden Kersavage nice that must feel nostalgic
Not to mention the worst logging company in the Cascades, oh sweet sweet revenge from nature giving a big ol finger to them.
Great video. I was a teenager when this happened, and a couple years later, I purchased a little castle that was made out of the ash as a souvenir. So 2 yrs ago I met a guy at work, and find out he is the one that hauled a couple semi-loads of ash out of there, and had all kinds of souvenirs made with the ash. I pulled out my little castle and he pulled out pictures and he still has the same castle. Small world for sure.
Amazing true coincidence!
What if you breathe that stuff. What happens to you?
@@davidlamotta1994 now cool snorting it would be safe
Really excellent job young man!
I was in my home, in Vancouver, Canada, just finished showing. I was making breakfast when there was a HUGE bang. It felt like a truck rammed into the house. I went out in the paved lane and found a never before Crack was now running from the top of our chimney to about half way.
I later found out is was the shock wave from Mt. Saint Helens eruption.
My home was, as a crow flies, 290.3 miles away.
That's cool.
Man that's incredible. Such a massive shock and so far away.
My cousin and his wife lived on Vashon Island at the time and they could hear & feel it there!
@@timnewman1172 -how far away?
That is incredible.
I was 15 and living in Shelton, WA when it erupted. Shelton is 2 hours away and the noise was so loud I thought 2 speeding logging trucks had a head on collision in front of my house. I jumped out of bed and ran out to the street expecting to see brutal wreckage. Instead I saw the plume from the eruption. My first thought was that the Russians had dropped an atomic bomb, the plume looked just like pictures I have seen on TV. After the initial panic I remember being relieved it was “only” a volcano. After the plume left it was unbelievably eerie to look down the road and see nothing where a beautiful volcano used to rise above the trees. In 1981 I flew from Sea/Tac to San Jose and the view from the plane was crazy, it looked like a seen from an Apocalypse movie. You could see the direction the ash went, it spread out from the mountain to the East. The trees that were knocked down from the blast were all laying the same direction, away from the blast.
Joel LeDon that's an amazing piece of history, thank you for sharing it!
That was probably scary im glad nothing happend to you :D
You're 54?
@@iaxivers7694 so what that's not strange at all
how scary!
I grew up here. Spent a lot of time at the Mountain before it erupted and after. It changed SO much literally in a matter of seconds. Places I went are no longer there. Buried and gone. The destruction was massive. Lives were lost. A place that was once so beautiful, so different now.
Is it fair to say mother nature is a fucking cunt?
Sad!
It truly was gorgeous, kindda sad. But it'll probably again in the future.
It still looks incredibly beautiful though, but I guess in a different way.
It's sad and beautiful. Lives were lost but life goes on. Mother Nature will find a way to take back what is hers
As a Private First Class in the Army and stationed at Fort Lewis, we were ordered to the mountain about 10 am on 18 May 1980. We hauled fuel for the helicopters for the rescue efforts. First a bivouac at Kelso so Jimmy Carter could stop by. Then moved on to Toutle airport so the choppers would be closer to the mountain. The old girl went off again Monday morning scaring the crap out of us all. Ash was 3 to 5 inches deep on everything within sight. There was a morgue set up for the bodies to be identified. An experience that will live with me forever. There are no words to express what we saw or did. It looked like the moon's surface or a war zone.
This was a good video and a walk back in time for me.
Thank you for your efforts. Must have been a hell of an experience.
Thank you for your service sir
God bless
Hey, thanx for doing that for us, man. Seriously.
Dukee thank you kindly
This video gave me chills. I grew up in WA State and was in Eastern WA when Mt. Saint Helens erupted. It was scary. You couldn't even see your hand in front of your face because the ash was so thick. And back then there was no 24/7 cable news to find out what was happening. It was like the end of the world happened. When the ash started creeping into the house we all ended up in my Grand Fathers small underground wine cellar with a hand held radio trying to get a signal enough to find out what was happening. It was a week and a half later before we dug the car out of the ash and was able to slowly drive with very little visibility out of Easter WA. It was releif when we finally got out of there and onto the other side of the mountains. The air in Seattle was still really ashy but I remember seeing a ray of sunshine trying to Break through and you could at least see 20 feet in front of you. I have never under estimated that mountain since & always get a bad feeling when near it to this day. The landscape is nothing as it was but at least trees started growing again. It's not a Baren waste land as it was for many years after the volcano. Like I said in the beginning, I was getting chills watching you in this video just knowing what happened and what still can happen at anytime. Mt. Saint Helens and Mt. Rainier that was showing behind you in the video are both Ticking time bombs & someday it one of the two will blow again. I know this video is old but Thanks for sharing.
Wait, wasn't CNN established in 1980?
@JustArcadia June 1980 CNN established. Mt St Helen's eruption May 18 1980. Not everyone had CNN when it came out either.
Most of my family has lived in Washington State since my great grandparents settled there in the late 1800's generations. Some of them lived in towns where everyone got snow shovels and dug out the ash like it was snow, really heavy snow.
@@yorkiepitI saw people digging out of the ash like it was snow on the news it was terrible.
Thank U for the Incredible journey. I am disabled so I would never be able to see this 1st hand!! Please be Careful on your journeys....God Bless You!!
Sandy Hyatt Bless you! You seem like a very nice person! :3
@@okami-san6675 Thank You!! You also are Very Nice to Bless Me!!.....I try to be nice & treat everyone the same way that I would like to be Treated.....Much Love & Blessings to U 🌻💜🌻
I don't know why this video was in my recommended feed, but I'm glad it was. Thoroughly enjoyed the video
RUclips on drugs as always 😑😂🤣
Same
Same. Yt knows what you need.... 😂 jk
Agreed.
Because they keep track of what you like to watch, and recommend something around that same topic. Keep tabs on what you watch and you'll see what I'm talkin about.
Thank you for doing this. I am getting on in years and would never be able to make the climb to see it now. I was 35 when the eruption happened. It was a huge HUGE event, that captured the nation's attention for weeks.
Well said. I was 38 when it happened and still remember it well.
If you live out there I'm jealous as that was at one time a beautiful place. Now, who knows when that damn volcano will have indigestion again?
I was 11 yrs old and remember it was all over the news. I don't recall much just that it was in the news
Today is 7 Feb. 2021, I am 78 and what a wonderful way to see Mt. St. Helens, letting a young man do all the climbing
for me.. Sights I would never see in any other way. Thank you so much.
When a house destroyed 37years ago has the same fridge as you
they don't make them like they used to
wonder if it still works?
@@LaserGuy1 It would be funny if it does. I know there are older fridges that lasted a long time (although they were energy hogs) but that would be one interesting test.
@@mikebeesley3150 and you might be a poopy pants.
How much you wanna bet it still works?
Great Job Kid, Thank you for for taking me where I could never go.
Ur an idiot
@@nituakter2780 how?
@@nituakter2780 you're an idiot not john hux
It's not that hard a hike really,I have hiked up and down the Cascades.
If Lieutenant Dan could climb to the crows nest with no legs.......
Just remember to stay relaxed
It's all fun and games until the Earth has indigestion
CrystalLikesShibes
Just give it some pepto bismol
Nah, just ate at Taco Bell.
Volcanos are just Earth pimples
shut up
@@deadeyes2803 me?
You are quickly becoming one of my favorite RUclips channels. For a history nut like me this is addicting. Thank you for what you do.
I honestly was thinking the same I love this guy! All that was missing was his wingman on this particular video
Natural history is interesting from any time but human history is only interesting 800+ years ago for me
Let's all just hope Yellowstone never wakes up like this one did.
And none of them are fast enough. If Yellowstone goes up just enjoy the show.
When Yellowstone goes off 1/2 of the country goes bye bye.
@@janeiwasduncan8463 all life goes bye bye.
In the words of Bill Bryson: " anyone would want to stand well back".
@@irritated888 as you kiss your arse goodbye .....
I find the tree growing out of a logging truck ironic. Mother Nature does have a sense of humor.
Yes! Irony at its best!
That is AWESOME!!! I love it!!!
Lol and the dozer burried
I like the bulldozer with flowers growing around it, too.
It had revenge
I remember going outside while the ash fell. I was a little kid, and I thought "Why is this snow not cold? Why does it not melt?"
Cause it's ash it's just falling snow from the heat
larry hopper He knows, he only explains when he was young...🤦♂️
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@@larryhopper4228 r/facepalm
hMmMmMm weird warm snow
That No Smoking sign is irony at its finest.
The mountain didn’t follow that one lol
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I remember this day very well. I lived in Springfield, Oregon about 200 miles South of Mt. St. Helens. The sky was grey and ash was falling. I could not believe what I was seeing. It was sad to think about all the people who lived closer and about those who lost their lives that day. Thank you for sharing this. I have often wondered how it looked today.
Wait you live in Springfield Oregon after that volcano eruption! And you see ash in the mountains.
And considering the distance the wind was blowing to the East when the eruption happened which is why Yakima was covered & Portland barely got any ash.
Wow I was living in Eugene then. Just other side of the highway. It was a very strange time.
The best amateur video on Mount St. Helens there is.
Yeah it is. Pretty simple and straight forward
The equipment you found at 7:26 is a Skagit brand cable yarder, which winched logs off of the mountain, and at 9:35 was a lumber company fire pumper.
They should of brought a bigger fire pumper.
that fire pumper has a W block 409 in it too, pretty desirable for a hot rod or muscle car when built right, I'm sure that one is junk tho.
He did mention it right at the beginning. He showed all those trees laying on the ground, and stated how they were all blown off the mountain in the explosion.
I wonder where the tube ended up? Didn't see it. Maybe Weyco salvaged it.
I was almost 17 when this happened. Thanks for bringing this back to life for those of us who remember it. What a thrill this must have been for you. Nice job!
Just an FYI, the trees in Spirit Lake, for the most part, were not blown into the lake by the volcanic blast. Rather, the landslide that came off the collapsing north flank of the volcano plunged into the lake, sending a gargantuan wave up the north slope behind the lake. That wave denuded the hillside, bringing the trees into the lake and creating the raft of logs you still see today.
The bulldozer is actually a log skidder and the thing with all the cables is called a yarder for logging
no thats definitely a dozer
Dustin Mollison skidded. I have the same model at my house. The cabs are damn near identical
@@Rokynutz thats so obviously a bulldozer, it has a winch not a claw, the blade is right there, and look at the picture at 6:51 and tell me tha thats not a dozer. The cabs being identical doesn't mean anything if they are both cats.
Yea it's a skidder with a dozer blade😂
Chrysler dissected some emergency vehicles from the Mt.St. Helen's area. I was one of the mechanics. It was amazing to me how the ash totally clogs the air inlet in 10 minutes but further in the engine bearings are ruined and the wheel bearings and alternator bearings are shot to. All failed within minutes. There was a cop that understood the choking of the air filter and cleaned (shook the ash out) every couple minutes. Saving his life and giving us the best example of ash intrusion to a operating car.
Interesting! Not only is the video informative, the comment thread is, too. (Some of it, anyway.)
Great comment Don, yeah I bet that dust soaks up oil and grease quick and the bearings destroy themselves. Now imagine what it would do to your eyes and lungs. Horrible.
@@twatbass it's ground glass, I believe.
When that first eruption went off, the plum was carried east for several states. I saw news photos of Yakima and Spokane police cars with panyhose stretched over the engine's aircleaners as a "pre-filter" and apparently it was fairly effective. They had a hell of a time getting the ladies wearing them to sit still, but it worked pretty well!! ;^)
That’s so fascinating! I know nothing about cars, would have most certainly sucked ash and died. There was another commenter here who mentioned driving a 69 VW van with an air cooled engine the day of the eruption, and having to change his plans and stick around in the area for 3 months before he could be sure engine would survive the drive. Smart decision!
I watched it erupt when I was 7 years old. I will never forget the eruption and how the day turned to night because of the ash. Silly to think about it now but we all wore masks for a few weeks after the eruption. I also remember camping up at Spirit lake before and after the eruption and how much it had changed the landscape. Crazy to think this happened 41 years ago.
Great video
Awesome touch adding the side by side photos. As well as the input of audio maps from after it erupted. Not many put the little extra things that make a huge difference then had it not been added. Class act
Jay Lew those additions added huge points in my book. It really helps someone like me who isn’t familiar with the area so we can really see how things were affected
I totally agree! Without those pictures this wouldn’t of made it into my epic videos book
Inventors of the Atomic Bomb: No explosion could possibly be more powerful than this!
Volcano: Hold my beer.
Onyx1916 lol, wait til Yellowstone, make St. Helens look like a firecracker 🧨! Don’t think they’ll sell tee shirts though 😳
Mother Nature is undefeated.
HA!
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The people who invented the atomic bomb knew they weren't as powerful. Now a Nuclear bomb, like the tsar bomb is getting closer, but not by much. ( I understand this commented is a joke)
Fascinating. Well done documentation of what you found. Your voice conveys the awe of what it was like to see these things up close 37 years later. Your respectful tone is also appreciated. A lot of people died that day.
Karen W Wow ... my parents visited the area a LONG time ago , gave me an eagle carved out of the lava /mud which I cherish .
Karen W a
Karen W I definitely agree. I just started watching these type of videos and I've came to enjoy his vids the most. It's almost like you're walking right along side with him. Very fun to watch and listen!!
My mom was 5. She has pictures of the ash in the streets.
I seen a lot of burnt vehicles and if it truly got burned by volcano and lava Spire there would be no damn tires on it mommy that's all I'm saying
Thank you kindly for posting this, do to my muscle disease ide never be able to see these without people like u sharing your experience and journey with us.
Thank you for getting the hiking permit. So many other youtubers wouldn't bother, so it's awesome that you did.
He’s not scared to walk in a cave alone, im scared to walk to the fridge alone at night😂
i've been there its a pretty small cave tbh, and its well traversed so theirs like a 0% chance of spooky shit happening
I'm scared to go upstairs alone, too many horror movies.
Well what if the demons come after me
He is not alone
..see when he is on top of the mountain there is someone else in the back ground
TMP playz there was a female or two in the cave. You can hear half way through chatting voices. Still ballsy though.
Thank you for showing me things I would never see in my life. I enjoyed all the things you pointed out. Thx
I lived in Gresham OR when it blew. What a mess. I breathed in too much ash even though I tried to protect myself and husband and kids. I'm 72 now with severe problems with my lungs. I've been told that a lot of the problem was the ash.
I have several books about the explosion and they tell the whole story in pictures. And I will always say "God bless you, Harry Truman". What a story he lived.
I live there now and I’m 24 just trying to picture this whole thing what was it like here? Grey ash everywhere I imagine but genuinely just wanting to learn more if you mind sharing.
May, 1980, we were fishing the Satsop river when a big "boom" made the ground shake. We jumped up and threw gear in the car and raced for home.
The ash was like driving in a Blizzard. The ash scraped the windshield and ruined it. It was hard to breathe. No one went anywhere for a couple days.
In mathematics, one radian of a circle is 57.3 degrees! A possible coincidental meaning in 57? Did Mout St. HELENS give out one radian of fumes to cover 57 People?
I was just about to say imagine fishing at that lake and you see the volcano erupting
Same goes for my dad, just he was on a business trip with his boss and the CEO when a nearby volcano erupted
Edit: The ashes went for about 300+ miles, he only rely on Google Maps, this was about 4 or 5 years ago
Please tell us more. Did the blast wave reach you?
14:15 came to an end, stopped flowing.... omg make it make sense.
Him: *throws a snowball at the mountain*
Helens: Oh.. you really wanna play? *ground starts shaking*
I want to say thank you to you for exploring and recording this. I was 20 when this happened. I was living in California. We watched on the news in amazement. I've always wondered about it but I never would have seen it if you hadn't went to all the trouble to do this so thank you.
@frankiesfancy. I was also 20 when this happened. 😎
I live in New England, and was 24 when St Helens erupted. I distinctly recall some TV station interviewing Mr Truman, and him committing to stay & ride it out. This eruption was a major national event that was well advertised long before the fact. Great job on this video, young man!
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I was 16. It doesn't seem that long ago
I'd be afraid I'd find a skeleton in one of those trucks in the middle of nowhere.
Pretty sure after everything was finally over and rescue crews could go in , they got all the bodies out there of the obvious spots such as ones in the vehicles, so the chance of him finding a skeleton there was slim.
The ones no one could find chances are were either buried so deep in the ash and mud that they’d be impossible for someone to just “stumble” upon, or they were burnt to ash themselves and/ripped apart from the explosive eruption that you’d never find an even remotely complete body.
Also after 37 years they probably would have decomposed after being left out in the wilderness
Yeah, the upside down truck probably has a body in it.
Only 57 people died, scattered across almost 1/10 of a state, 40 years ago, in nature, tons of ash, and rescue crews got rid of the main bodies
Logging equipment was outside the original "red zone". It was Sunday morning, no one was working those sites. Ditto for the Weyerhauser Log Yard which was flooded out by the mud. There was a crew on the fringes, that were hit by the hot ash, but all 4 survived, if I remember correctly. Only Johnson on the ridge, & Harry at his hotel on Spirit Lake, of known victims, were never recovered.
Can't believe its 37 years ago. The mountain is just sleeping, they seldom die completely.
It was 37 years ago during the time of filming. May of this year will mark the 40th year.
It’s latest eruption was actually around 2009- pretty big one too. It’s very much alive
Reason being, the tectonic plate on which these volcanos are isnt moving as much as, for example, the Hawaiian islands, where its basically like a conveyor belt moving over the magma source, creating a volcano that grows to an island, spits lava for a while and eventually is cut off from the magma source as the plate moves past it. Then a new volcano forms at the bottom of the ocean, grows to an island, spits lava for a period of time and dies...
There are, however, expected to be a few more very dangerous volcanos bubbling up in the region. Its not just St. Helens by any means...
They ALWAYS die completely, at some point. There are, or have been, far more completely inert former volcanoes, than there are active ones. Four and a half billion years is a long time, to put it mildly, and most of the Earth's original crust has long since been subducted into the mantle, and along with it, any volcanoes that were once a feature of that original crust. Beyond that, there are still former volcanoes, in "modern" crust, which still exist, some of which are still clearly volcanic in origin, yet which are absolutely dead, being cut off from their magma sources, rendering them just another piece of terrain feature. Just because there are active volcanoes, some of which have been around many thousands of years, and some of them remain dormant, doesn't mean that they seldom die. It's just a matter of geological perspective vs. human perspective. The volcanoes always die, but vulcanism hasn't yet "died" either, though it too will also cease someday, as will the planet itself...
The new thing to watch out for on Mt. Saint Helens is the Glacier forming at the top. If it gets too big, even a smaller eruption could melt it into a devastating Lahar (superheated ash and mud flow).
This would easily cause immense destruction downriver of the volcano, without needing to be as large of an eruption as last time because the side has already been blown wide open.
40 years later today. RIP to all who perished on that fateful day.
Amazing Video. So nice to not have annoying and distracting music or inappropriate commentary. Your genuine wonder and excitement of touring this incredible landscape were well expressed. You put so much effort into delving into interesting gems off the beaten path. Thanks so much for sharing the view of a place I and so many would love to explore!
Cool video bro. Here's some info I found about the trees from the Weyerhauser website. "1. Salvage
Salvage and recovery plans began immediately. Much of the downed timber could be used, but was at great risk of insect damage and disease. Quick work was needed, but safely. After a government study to assess the hazards of working in ash finished, full-scale salvage began.
More than 1,000 people were involved in the salvage efforts.
Up to 600 truckloads of downed logs were removed each day.
Salvage work continued for nearly two years.
The efforts helped save 850 million board feet of timber, enough to build 85,000 three-bedroom homes."
Thanks for sharing this information.
good reason to blow up a mountain huh? SALVAGE my arse. theres sooo many holes in this me se helens story. maybe the next big conspiracy, we will see
@@Mike_Greene you win today's idiot of the day award congratulations.
@@geoffreyholland328 the academy gives the academy award, bet gives the bet awards...... now wwho the heck you think give the idiot award? fricking idiot. let this serve as proof that you dont think. smh @ ur dumb ass keep believing everything ppl tell you, THAT is idiotic, nut. Go figure yourself out
@@geoffreyholland328 thanksa for proving my point idiot........ how do you know about this tree recovery again.....???? i didnt say it was a conspiracy IDIOT. I said savage my arse. Can you even explain a volcano? NOPE reason why you think wwhat you do. Please tell me how you know about these trees..... as if you been followwing the story for 2 years.... oh yeah i forgot you think I AM the idiot. you believe every story a comedian tell too, dont you? there is no reason to believe them ust as much as there is reason to. YOU DONT KNOW SHIT. all you did wwas spit to us from what someone else said/wrote/ Give me a couple of companies that participated so maybe i can track down some more info to come back here with. How deep did you WIKIPEDIA? IDIOT
I totally love how respectful you are - no matter what the subject
I hope your disclaimer didn't arise from snarky past responses. You don't deserve that treatment, man.
(Truck radiator) "It's gonna overheat..." Hahahaha! I think the overheating happened outside the truck.
I was born in Portland Or in 77. One of my earliest memories is watching my dad clear ash off our car in the driveway with a mask on. I can remember thinking it was snow and wanting to go out and play. I don’t know about today but back in the 90s and early 00s you could dig down to ash in our yard.
Why not try?
Because he's lying. Portland did not get ANY ash. I lived through it I know.
Doc Leadpill my mother has a photo of an inch of ash on her car in southeast Portland everywhere within a 500 mile radius got at least a dusting of ash my uncle in Bozeman Montana got ash
As a local resident, I love that people appreciate the mountain and its history. I am also a day hiker and have been on trails around the mountain many times. Hiker etiquette is to always stay on the trail. And in the Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, it is posted everywhere that the land is protected to allow the habitat to regenerate naturally. I appreciate much of this video, but please, respect the land and stay on the trail.
Yes, after a cataclysmic event, how dare a human disturb the destruction.
"so I'm about a mile down, deep in this lava tube", please lord never let me hear this again
That's really just how far into the lava tube he is. It's not very far underground, maybe 10 to 20 feet at best as I recall.
@@sylvieanderson2779 It's really not that bad Sylvie. I've done it a dozen times, even with my 8yo kids at the time. It's not scary, it's not hard except in a couple of spots. But even they weren't anything of concern.
The truck having no radiator fluid seems to be the least of the problems with it
speedyfalcon 561 No doubt! How’s someone supposed to drive that thing without a license plate on it?
Did anyone notice the DRIP when he lifted the lid?
I agree. But as the commercial once said, it was built Ford Tough.
@@davidlamotta1994 I bet that old Y Block would run, too.
The radiator wasn't dry I seen a drop of water fall off the cap it's just low and probably take a couple gallons
"And here I am...in physical pain." LoL. Thank you SO much for taking us on this wonderful adventure!
My family and I lived there for 2 years. My step dad was in the Army stationed at Ft Lewis. We moved 2 weeks before the eruption. Our old house was destroyed. I was 3 years old. Also it’s neat you can see Mt Rainier in the distance. It’s about 50 miles away
I was 8 years old when we moved from Ft Lewis in 1979. Remember seeing it on the news, missed it by about 9 months
It’s like hiking and you’re doing the hard part. I can quit anytime I want and go lay down on the couch, in fact, it’s virtual hiking while laying on the coach and snacking on chips. This is great.
My wife and I traveled to Mt. St. Helens in 2009, and I have been all throughout the U.S......this was probably the most spectacular sight I have ever seen. Thanks for the incredible video my friend!
Awesome. Thanks for not swearing. I'd like to show these videos to my little sister.
OMG, it's so hard nowadays to find anything that's not so full of vulgarity, that you can watch at all. What happened ?
My dick
deklosjaar. A FOREIGNER NO DOUBT .PROB MUSLIM..FILTHY MOUTH
Stop crying about swear words. She's gonna hear swearing anyways and the more people are making that shit taboo the more the kids will be wanting to explore it. Why are people so stupid ....
+ Michael Hoffpauir
Maybe people are getting smarter...
www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015-12-17/study-people-who-swear-more-are-smarter-have-larger-vocabulary
They're just words, after all.
A few years after St Helen's erupted, I was in junior high school. I remember kids that went there on vacation, would bring back ash in a bottle. Stores would sell them as souvenirs.
Plenty of that on ebay as I just looked. I'll probably get something.
I have an ash vase from MSH.
I. From Aussie and always loved anything about Mount St Helens. I’ve got the movie, read what I could. And you just gave me a lovely surprise ( for my Birthday a few days ago) and showed me what the inner volcano that I would never get to see. Thank you for the wonderful job your doing. From a old Gal in Aussie 😊🙏🏻🇦🇺
Funny how we remember things like the Newcastle earthquake etc..I remember this as well
I absolutely loved this video.. I was 9 when the mountain blew. My family and I lived in a little town called cinebar washington about 30 miles north west of the blast zone. We were camping at the ocean having a weekend claming and fishing trip when the mountain blew. We woke up that morning at the beach and all our plans were cancelled in an instant. We headed home to find 6 inches of ash on everything and it was still falling. It was deathly silent and it was almost as if it had snowed but no, it was ash covering everything. We had to wear masks to go outside. My uncle was part of the rescue teams going in and out trying to find survivors. The last time I set foot on Mt St Helens was around 1992. The shrubs were just starting to re-appear. In fact I don't believe I saw one that was taller then 3 to 4 feet high, and I think they were going around trying to see if they could replant trees in certain places. To see so much has grown in the last 25 plus years is very heart warming. I now live in the mid west and have always wondered if life was continuing to grow. It seems it has. I remember the first animal I saw when I was up there last. It was a squirrel at a look out point on the side of the road. Some one was trying to pet it and got bit. I will always get a giggle out of that. How easily we forget that wild life is just that wild. Anyways it is good to see underbrush finally taking hold along with the trees. It was so desolate even back then 11 years after it happened. It was miles and miles and miles of nothing but blown over trees and grey powdery ash and pumice. I even hiked down to spirit lake. It was just full of nothing but dead burned trees. Nothing like it is now. You can see the water now. Before it was nothing but those dead grey burned trees on top of the lake. Amazing video! Thank you so much for letting me get a peak at a place I have always thought about.
THIS WAS IN 1992 WOO WEE ..... I ALWAYS WONDERED IF SPIRIT LAKE MADE IT THREW DIDN'T KNOW TIL I READ THIS THREAD............ I WAS 6 /7 THEN & MY BROTHER IS STILL 3 YRS,. OLDER THEN ME & I MEMBER A TON OF DEAD STUFF ALL AROUND US EVEN IN THE 80'S....... BACK IN THE DAY U KNOW........
Although I live a few thousand miles away I remember the eruption coverage on the news. I'd only been in Canada for about seven months. I've since read accounts by survivors of the eruption and the magnitude of it just baffles the mind. Your hikes up the mountain helps to scale the enormity of the eruption. The current crater looks like a huge open pit mine that would have taken humans fifty years to produce. Mother nature did it in seconds and we think we can control the earth with our silly laws and activities. That one eruption probably expended more energy than man has used in ten years. It truly boggles the mind.
Thanks for undertaking this project. I wish you well on your future endeavours.
Thanks from Canada's banana belt.
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“Hope you could see that barrel roll”
Plane: literally disappears out of existence
It was just dimensional travel duh
Sounded like a Merlin. Prop driven aircraft. Either a spitfire or mustang. Theres the museum of flight and another group that have a great collection of classic war birds that fly.
Oh honestly, you really make me sigh Borg!!
As soon as the plane disappeared I immediately started looking for the comment😂
Juno 191 I doubt there’d be an original merlin spitfire just casually doing rolls near Mt. St. Helen’s.
I remember this vividly being all over the news, I was 10 years old. Thanks for the video, nicely done bro
Rusty Kage I was a month away from turning 10. Watched it on the news from the safety of Ohio..
I was 10-years old as well. Growing up in New Jersey I can still remember the cloudy days that followed because of the eruption.
Thanks for the video sir!
@joel No. Just don't get caught 👍
I truly appreciated this breathtaking video! When you made it to the top, and saw the miles and miles of mountains, and scars from the eruption, that had to feel emotional.
Nearly new 37 year old tires. Uniroyal doesn't even make semi tires any more. Wow....amazing. And that tree growing up through that other one. Frozen in time. Standing on the volcanoes rim must have been completely awesome....certainly looked it!! Awesome stuff!
Well, they'd be non-functional due to severe dry rot by now, I should think.
I love Uniroyal tires.
I was a senior in high school in 1980 I was living with my family at the Southwest Washington fairgrounds at the time My father was the security chief and caretaker of the fairgrounds when not saying helens blew are top again a week later we had a cattle show on the grounds well Louis county got that 2nd dose of ash and the cattle people had only brought enough seed for a few days for the show and a lot of the local farmers and feed stores were able to help them out with their feed for the cattle and because of the ash we seniors at Central High school were unable to finish our last week of school therefore we got out of final exams so what the teachers did was you either got an F for failure or P for passing From what I understand a lot of out of state colleges that the seniors applied to were looked at very suspicious
Mythird time watching this video. Your tone of respect and your excellent descriptions make this and other Mobile Instinct videos memorable
After 37 years that bulldozer's turbo still looks so good. Chuck that on ya Honda 😆
Probably still has a better warranty than what you can buy new off the shelf today 😊
I was thinking if I saw that I'd take it off and rebuild it.
@@timothycook2917 maybe if your buying your turbos off eBay.
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THATS what Im sayin' homie'!!
A Honda would have still started. Not a chev.
I was a junior in high school living in the foothills of the cascades between Mount Rainer and Mt St Helen's...I will never forget that day...so surreal...it went from daytime to almost dark immediately and the ash fell like heavy snow covering everything in inches of Grey ash...not far from where I was folks were dying...when she went it was like the biggest bomb a person could ever imagine...I feel very fortunate to be here.
That was a fantastically captured journey. I've been fascinated by that eruption since I was 3 years old. I've always thought the scale of it is impossible to capture in pictures and video. It truly looked like you were a 5 minute walk from the lava dome when you got to the rim. I can remember how small the dome started out as after the 1980 eruption. And over the past 4 decades, you can truly see the mountain rebuilding itself. Truly fascinating! It's really amazing to wonder how many times that mountain has blown itself apart and rebuilt itself. Just going out to Washington and seeing it from the observatory is at the very top of my bucket list. Great job, dude!
I have lived in SW Washington my whole life and you really captivated me with this video. I flew over St. Helens when it was "in danger" of erupting in 2004 with the US Navy. Huge Huge fan of this video. Thank you for content. New sub
Really enjoyed this video. I remember the eruption in 1980. I visited there in 1998. But we never got to see anywhere near as much as what you were able to show us in this video. Thanks for all the hard work you put in to make it!
This is a great video, thank you very much for all your efforts. I remember when Mt. St. Helens erupted. My supervisor, at a job I had at the time, had just gotten his car painted. It was a early 1960s mercury, either a comet or a Monterrey, I forget which. He had to keep that car in his garage until there was no more ash in the air.
US gov: Build here.
Volcano: kills people.
US gov: Now pay to hike it.
Well you need to understand that when this volcano blew up there would’ve been more deaths if the scientist their hadn’t warned them and if the government hadn’t listened. This volcano is still incredibly active, they want to keep it safe and let the landscape develop.
So taking hikers money is a safety measure? That’s rich.
@@Hollywood2021 stonks ⬆
Hollywood preventing mass tourism to allow plant regeneration
Hollywood if it was free, dozens of people would be going a day, increasing the risk of more people dying if something were to happen again. Also what’s wrong with getting some extra money from some tourism? This isn’t the USSR, you have to pay to see cool things.
those reference photographs of the vehicles were very cool to see. great video, man.
I spent a couple years replanting trees in the blast zone, a big part of that in the Green River drainage, which took the full force of the blast. I remember seeing where a Douglas fir, fully 8 feet through, was snapped about 7 feet off the ground, with the tree laying 50 feet from the stump. Driving into the zone on roads plowed through deep ash, almost like being in a long, gray tunnel. Pretty wild! At first, Weyerhauser had us digging through the ash to mineral soil to plant, until Fish and Wildlife told them the deep holes would cause the elk to break their legs, after which we just planted them in the ash...and they seem to have done just fine.
Thank you for doing all the hard work needed to help recovery we see today. Did you notice the build up, in the crator, of the domes? Hot and smoking areas then and now.
It's not very good for hiding bodies though
I have now lived on the north and south side of St Helens and that restaurant has my absolute favorite burger. Most gorgeous area I've ever been to in person
Super cool video. I got a cool story about that day. I live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦. We were in our living room and we heard this enormous boooom. We had a very large front window. 6 x 8 feet. You could see the glass shaking. We all looked at each other “like what the hell”. And then all you could hear was dogs barking like crazy. It scared the hell out of them too. My mom immediately turned on the radio ( they didn’t have almost instant tv coverage back then ). And within a moment or two the broadcast said Mt. St. Helens erupted. This boom was loud, so loud the pressure wave was able to shake that window. I don’t know the exact distance between us and the eruption, but I know it’s a hell of a long way. I still remember it clear as day. What an enormous explosion.
So cool! I've had people not believe me about how the sound wave traveled, but I was living on the other side of the state north/west of Spokane (just south of Grand Forks, BC) and we heard and felt the boom when it went off. Definitely a "where were you when...?" generational question for those of us old enough to remember it.
lunarfriday : isn’t it strange how it traveled that far. The Columbian was a news paper up here decades ago and they had a special edition all about the eruption. I still had it up till a few years back. Wish I didn’t lose it. The paper even commented on the boom.
Thanks for this Amazing story awesome!
200 plus miles..
Gary Llewellyn thanks 👍🇨🇦
Great video! Almost crapped myself when you said 37 years ago!! Doesn't seem that long! Hard to believe 2020 will be 40 years!!!!
Hey, I just want to say that I love how respectful you are to things as you're exploring.
Lived in so cal when this happened..within seconds it was all changed.. incredible ❤ thank you for making the hike 🙂 I was an avid hiker but injuries ended that so thank you so much for taking me on this journey
My father died there when the mountain erupted. Thank you for this footage.
pray for your father
Candee Rose im sorry to hear that.
Candee Rose - I am so sorry you lost your father. What an awful day that was for you. I hope you have many good memories of when he was with you.
Candee Rose 🌹 🙏 sorry for your loss..
@Candee Rose Sorry you lost your father. As a dad myself, I'm sure he is watching over you and proud of you.
I have never seen your channel before this is my first time it was incredible you did an outstanding job thank you for sharing
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Same. Went to Mt. St. Helen's twice but am too old to do serious hiking. Thank you for taking me to places I cannot go anymore (actually probably couldn't have done it when I was young either!). The place is unbelievably beautiful from the lookouts, and zooming in with a long lens the details are amazing. The scale of the place as you noted is hard to comprehend.
@@maflones Regardless of whether it is or isn't, how does your comment serve to better yourself, or mankind? You may want to use your time more wisely, and look up 'Punctuation'. You may then apply what you learn accordingly. Happy New Year - though, with your mindset, you'll probably continue to be miserable!
The lesson from this disaster; never take mother nature lightly. Some people ignored the warnings to evacuate and died as a result.
I do find it interesting that neither vandals or scrappers have gone after the abandoned items strewn about the place.
@mike mike There's no reason for you to be so hostile! It was just an observation. If no one has done it by now, they are not likely to.
Please I lived though this we were covered in ash for years and still have lots left in our town from
It if anyone around here wanted it they would of done so years ago no one wants to relive the horrific deviating event over again nor take the time to travel up there if there that desperate for money then they probley don’t have the money to make the Trek there
The only reason I would go there would be for rock collecting out of the Toutle river.
Mestre Shake No one asked about your incel activities.
Mestre Shake this here, this comment here officer
I keep coming back to this video. I have a fascination of sorts with that eruption, (at the time though, I was only a 3 year old here in the UK) and something keeps pulling me back to this. Amazing stuff! Hope you had a good long rest after that!
I'm just a bit older and my grandparents lived in Washington at the time hundreds of miles from the volcano.
Falling ash covered everything and my grandpa just sprayed everything off with the hose. That night watching the news he learned it's destructive and dangerous to mix ash and water.
The mixture produces lye/caustic soda/sodium hydroxide with a pH close to 14.
Ill Never forget that Sunday morning. Climbed her 3 yrs prior to blowin her cork then climbed her again 16 yrs after she blew. Spent most of my youth from age 8 to 36 trompin those woods. Spent most summers camping at June lake or at pine Creek and most fall/winters hunting deer and elk in those woods, wore many a boots out trompin that country... Sure do miss it some days..
TreasureSweeper june lake ca?
Cayden Thompson No, there is a small lake on the south base (just below timber line) of Mt. St. Helen's. It is a good hike in on an old trail, good workout on the legs...
www.hikespeak.com/trails/june-lake-hike-mount-saint-helens-washington/
holy shit ,37 years ,where the hell did 37 years go ??????
I want some of whatever you were smoking when you wrote this comment.
All we are , Is Dust in the Wind .
This had 37 likes til I just messed it up
I was thinking the same thing. Wow.
I watched the explosion cloud from my front yard. So long ago now.
Seeing what happened here in new Zealand with our active volcano white island a few days ago is eerie,RIP to sightseers
gfy, I seen it on the news about the volcano in your country on white,s island, I don't understand why some of those people would get on the island knowing that volcano is about ready to Erupt. When Mount St, Helens, erupted I was in the Us Army, and stationd at Fort Knox, Kentucky, I remember seeing it on the news.
@Gregster Exactly, they even gave evacuation orders before the Mount St. Helens eruption, so I'm wondering the same thing. Almost everyone who didn't evacuate died. You'd think they would've got those people off the island, especially because I heard a lot of them were tourists with guides
@@esco5593 Most the St Helen blast victims were Outside the Red Zone. Only two were inside: Johnson, as a researcher observer, placed well past what they thought would be a deadly location, & Harry, at Spirit Lake, who refused to evacuate. There was a logging crew doing maintenance on the red zone fringes, who survived. Every other victim were at the wrong place at the wrong time. No expert expected the mountain to erupt to the side the way it did. That the experts know NOW it is possible doesn't negate they didn't know then. The "Red Zone" then was inadequate.
That was really fantastic. Your footage of the torn crest of the volcano was especially incredible. Trying to imagine the sheer scale .... the noise, the violence, the release of pent up energy and heat at the top where you were filming .... terrifying.
You deserve a like and follow just for climbing up there my guy
A well-done video. You presented it as you saw it, described what you saw, and didn't presume to identify what you couldn't. Well done indeed for that alone, the visuals were excellent!
I hiked to the top of Multnomah Falls on the side of Mount Hood shortly after the eruption and spent the day watching the ash plume. I was touring the U.S. in a 1969 VW van and, of course, the engine was air cooled. I was trapped in the Portland area for 3 months waiting for the ash to clear. You see, the very abrasive ash would have destroyed my engine. I left there and spent another year touring this glorious country before returning home to northeast Texas. I still have a small bottle of ash. Live your bucket list while you are young! Don't wait until you're old! That too late! Go out and see the volcanos while you can!!!
Tom Rhymer Great Advice for the young !! & old alike.
HELLYES TOM!!! We leave next month when our 5yr old gets trache out-was a 24wkr and hes ready to see this beautiful state/country we live in!! Still have ash from my dads truck/he was on Toutle i believe or river right next too it when she blew!! SEIZE THE DAY.
30 too old to travel and explore? That's just you making up reasons not to take a big step in life. History is filled with adventurous adults who discovered both them selfes and great places. My 40+ year old brother brings his whole family around the globe on off the tracks locations, I'm well over 30 and working on a travel plan to recreate a family members shiplog during WWII. My grandmas first flight was when she was 80, going to Venice because she liked photos of the sculptures and plazas. It's all possible. Godspeed, Daniel.
Nonsense. Thirty is young! I'm 73 and will still travel and "be young." Being young is a state of mind and has nothing to do with the years lived.
You are NEVER too young to enjoy life! I'm 51 and I'm going on a cruise to the Bahamas in January. Sure cruising can be kind of tame by some people's standards, but it's still an adventure. Whatever the adventure is, do it! No matter how old you are, figure out how. You only regret the road not taken. 😃
Great stuff. I’ve climbed the mountain a few times and the scale is so hard to comprehend until you’re there. Thanks for the wonderful video.
I was only 2 months old when this happened. My mom remembers that day- seeing the ash fall down over Seattle, mistaking it for snow! We still have a Christmas ornament made from the lava and ash from the blast. And then, 37 years later, my son was born on May 18th.
Beautiful footage!
Great 👍👍
I don't know how seattle would have gotten any ash. It blew mainly straight east towards Yakima and spokane.
Jess Roberts, why is all up I-5 then?
@@triplevee2198 it's not, it's concentrated to the toutle river valley in the form of a mud flow.
Jess Roberts why can you see piles of ash along I-5 then?
I was camping 40 miles away from it, on the river in the morning when saw the sky black coming at us. Crazy time.
Could I hear more details? I like hearing everyones' stories
@@darbychai yeah please wanna hear I was 10 living in an isolated highland community with Ltd media coverage , was it true about the Bigfoot bodies ?
You too old to be on RUclips
Rolodex Propaganda ?
@@rolodexpropaganda what do you mean? Please elaborate on your comment "Too old to be on youtube"
This is the first video that I’ve watched of his. I have to say that I like this guy. I’ll be watching more.
The amount of healing the mountain has gone through since the event is beyond anything we expected.
Truman knew what he was deciding, not sad.
Actually this is about the amount of healing expected after an eruption.
Never underestimate the amount of nutrients the ash holds from a volcanic eruption. Some of the best soil known to man was created from volcanic eruptions from the past.
Ice Maun, I've heard that also many years ago.
Vince Callagher it IS sad. I felt Harry's pain at the thought of leaving his everything. At his age it would have killed him. It's horrific to think of the way he died. RIP Harry.
I remember going up to the turn around on the mountain an innertubing down the slopes. The Toutle river valley was so beautiful. You can't imagine the size of the trees. I also know the owners of the A Frame as well. Good people.. They own the souviner shop next door. They were about to put the cap on the chimney right before the mud came. That truck was in the direct blast zone about 10 miles from where it sits. I'll never forget May 18th 1980. It changed the course of my life forever, but it was sure something to behold happening in your own back yard.
Bax
That was my elder sister's 8th birthday, i was 6yrs. old, and wil never forget it...
A reminder to humans that we are nothing compared to nature.
Actually, humans are part of nature, only the potent of human greed will never be competition to the potent of mother nature.
I live next to Yellowstone. Just waiting to be incinerated
@@larryteague871 if Yellowstone doesn't get to you, if you're in California, the people will.
Compared to God. ;)
Nah its nature
Really enjoyed your video. I'm glad you hiked up there for me, because I would not have made it. Nature is both beautiful and terrifying at the same time. I've done some spelunking in Colorado, so the lava tube brought back awesome memories. Amazing. Thanks for posting.
Thank you so much for this! I took my kids up there two weeks ago and didn’t have the time to go looking for all these neat things you found. Can’t wait to show them your vid.👏🏼👏🏼
I worked on St Helens in 72 and 73 thinning trees not far from Spirit lake, haven't been back since, good to see it again, thanks.