[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

Oh my, the pictures in that link are incredible. I remember seeing some of them in magazines at the time, but it's been along time ago....

Do you remember it happening?

I have a cousin that lives in Washington. He was hunting somewhere that got alot of the ash falling. He said it was really scary, that at first he heard reports that the ash might possibly be toxic.

Becky

[HairOfTheDog]

I do remember, I was a freshman in high school.... we saw many of eruptions that were visible from here, always mostly moving away, but we got dustings of ash on a couple of occasions. During the big one, my dad and I were at store, and we listened to the reports in the sporting goods dept on the radio.

Soon after, my mom chartered a little plane and we flew down over it. All the blown-down toothpick trees were still there, all in lines following the wind direction of the blast.

Just for scale of these old growth trees.... there are two guys standing in the lower right hand corner of that picture... about an inch from the bottom.