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
At the memorial for those who died in the eruption May 1980
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
At the memorial for those who died in the eruption May 1980
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
