Columbia River Cruise 2.0
Mt. St. Helens Excursion
OH MY! We saw it! Now that may seem pretty obvious at first take, but if you're following along on our journals for this trip (and for that matter, ALL of our adventures) you know that when we were on this very same adventure in June 2017 we could not see ANYTHING more than three feet away because of all of the fog.
And what we did NOT know THIS year until after our time at the observation center was that at this time of the year typically tourists have a 50-50 chance of seeing Mt. St. Helens because of the cloud cover! That would NOT have been cool. And I must add that when we left the ship, we went to make a left onto Interstate 5 (the only way to get to the mountain) and the on ramp was closed....I immediately thought, "you've got to be kidding me, not again!" But our driver Jodi was WAY too clever for the traffic issues and circumvented the situation to get us onto the freeway and on our adventure with just a short delay! JODI-JODI-JODI!!!
On the way back down the mountain to the ship we viewed an hour long documentary about the day that the mountain blew up (see the before-after picture above), and of all the statistics that were so amazing to me, the one that stood out was that the avalanche of mud and ash would have completely covered the city of Seattle and would have been so deep that it would have covered the entire space needle. Just a monstrous environmental event. Here are photos from our day on the mountain.....
First look from the valley heading to the observation area
THERE it is!
Mt. Adams, already snow-covered, in the distance....no clue there was another mountain near by!
From the observation deck - last year, nothing but fog
The Queen of the West docks right on the beach!
Our obligatory selfie!
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