Skied Mt. St Helen's this weekend! My first Cascade Volcano. It was totally amazing! Before 1980 when it blew it's top off, Helens was 9677ft. Now she's 8365ft. That's alot of mountain to be blown into bits!
Mt St Helens from the south
We Slept in the parking lot on thursday night in the pouring rain, hoping for clear weather. As luck would have it, we woke up at 4am to crystal clear skies!! YAY!! So we packed our gear up and set off for the top, a 5500ft , 12 mile climb up the Worm Flows.
Jamie Skinning up the lower mountain. The trail of footprints was very easy to follow.
Me skinnig in endless white. It snowed 6in the night before, so the skiing was like butter up high.
Jamie took this photo of me on the summit. I am one of the tiny dots up there.
Summit!
Getting what I came for. Check out the line of people heading up on the left. We saw about 100 other people on the mountain on a thursday. Crazy!
Well, our first Volcano was a success! It took about six hours to summit and ski back down. How awesome to have such good luck with the weather and the snow!
I found these before and after photos:
I found these before and after photos:
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