The boys getting ready to hike down into the crater...you can tell how foggy it was


It was so foggy on the way back you could barely see the trail

Down in the crater. Spirit Lake still has a lot of dead trees left over from the blast, but after almost 30 years, it is hard to tell this was all wiped out after the eruption

Ash and mud in the blast zone

Hiking on the way down....Mt Saint Helens is behind the clouds there somewhere

Nick and the mountain...but you can't see it through the clouds

Part of the trail was a little STEEP and along the side of a drop off

Our billy goat trail :-)

Checking out the blast zone

Crater trails
The river where all the mud and ash had desecrated has come back a lot, trees have replanted and re-grown. You can still see some sediment there though