Sunday, May 14, 2006
Mount St Helens-Boundary Trail
Mt Adams beyond Spirit Lake
The only other time I had been to Mt St Helens was a cloudy and rainy day with no views of the crater. With our impending move to the East Coast, and the continued volcanic activity at Helens, Sara and I decided that we needed to make time to get down there. We did the tourist thing at the Johnston Ridge Observatory then headed down the Boundary Trail for better views of the crater. The weather was sunny, snow was mostly gone from the trail, and the crowds thinned out 1/4 mile from the visitor's center. We saw a couple of rockfalls from the crater that kicked up some ash plumes, and ended at a spot with a view of the crater and Spirit Lake.
