It was steaming! - a little off and on ;~) A few patchy clouds in the crater, and the arrow pointing to the steam coming from the dome :~)
I posed a few tourists in front of it :~)
I think this one looks like an album cover for "St. Helen and the Mud Flows"
Some evidence of the blast zone, where trees were uprooted and lay flat, following the direction of the blast. In this area, a lot of vegetation has come back.
In other areas, it still hasn't...
This is a wider view of the hill above...
Other pictures on the way up and back, of the surrounding scenery :~)
This part was replanted all in Noble Firs... Which have the very horizontal symmetrical branches and make for an interesting looking forest :~D
