Thanks - hard to go wrong when Mother Nature provides a show like thisBeautiful shot!
fantastic, on my to do list
Thanks - I wasn't living in the NW when St. Helens erupted. It has grown a bit inside of the crater and blew off some steam once but nothing serious. I'd love to get a shot like this with steam clouds curling up out of the crater like we could see back in 2005.Beautiful! I remember calling my grandmother who lived in Port Angeles when Mt St Helens erupted. She said they could feel the blast through the open windows of the house
Appears to be the S.E. face, Cougar side. BeautifulGot some really nice morning color early today and with the fall sun angle got some good rays on the upper slopes of Mt. St. Helens.
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It was odd, since we were only 17 miles from Helens when she went and heard nothing but it looked like the end of the world from the Morton area.. we heard that people on the WA coast heard it but we only saw the blast clouds. A moment to remember, I would returned to Fort Lewis and departed immediately for search and rescue operations around the mountain for a week.Beautiful! I remember calling my grandmother who lived in Port Angeles when Mt St Helens erupted. She said they could feel the blast through the open windows of the house
Thanks - correct identification of the orientation. This was shot using the 166mm lens on my Mavic 3 Pro from directly over my driveway in the Felida area of Vancouver.Appears to be the S.E. face, Cougar side. Beautiful
A Martian skyGot some really nice morning color early today and with the fall sun angle got some good rays on the upper slopes of Mt. St. Helens.
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got some good rays on the upper slopes of Mt. St. Helens.
We lived in a small town just west of Portland; I think we were about 40-50 miles away. We never heard it either; probably too far away. We used to be able to see the tip of the mountain from our house. That day as we were getting ready to go to the coast we saw the plume like an atomic bomb had exploded. Since the wind was from the west most of the ash from the initial blast went to Yakima. The next several days it went to Yakima. I remember a reporter on live TV in Yakima where it was dark like it was night with the ash falling like snow. And then the wind shifted south and for the first time came towards Portland; we got about 2-3 inches of ash.It was odd, since we were only 17 miles from Helens when she went and heard nothing but it looked like the end of the world from the Morton area.. we heard that people on the WA coast heard it but we only saw the blast clouds. A moment to remember, I would returned to Fort Lewis and departed immediately for search and rescue operations around the mountain for a week.
Nice shot! It's all about timing isn't it?
Was this taken from the west side?
I wish I still had the physical conditioning to be able to do something like that. I will have to be satisfied with seeing the view from 400' AGL after finding the highest place I can legally launch fromThose of you who still have limbs articulating, you have GOT to hike up that slope and sit on the crater edge (not too close now) and have lunch. It is one breathtaking view... of the surrounding area as well as several peaks, on a clear day. Great photo, OP!
LOL - I would give body parts to get a shot like that The spot in question are the first rays of morning light on the mountain.Is it me? It looks as if you caught some lava flows on the right? Surely not after all this time.