Tag: MSHNVM
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20200518 Eruptiversary – USFS 26 Rd to Cascade Peaks, MSHNVM
How has so much time passed? Was it really 40 years ago that I was a young child, watching in fear as the sky disappeared behind boilings clouds of ash as darkness fell one Sunday mid-morning in May? We visited Mt. St. Helens for the first time, post-eruption, in what I believe was 1984. The devastated landscape…
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20190427 Green River Trail, MSHNVM
Spring is always so difficult. The lowlands are warming, the mountain ridges are melting out, the sun is strengthening, and everybody is waking up from winter. The legs long for a stretch, the soul for a wander. This early in the year, options are limited. I’ve been scouting the South Cascades the entire winter, and…
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20180806 Boundary Trail #1, MSHNVM
Spent the day hiking up the Boundary Trail #1, making it from the Norway Pass TH to a point above St. Helens Lake
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20180604 Coldwater Loop, MSHNVM
I was finally able to complete the Coldwater Loop at MSHNVM – starting at the South Coldwater TH, up Coldwater Trail to the Boundary Trail, to the JRO, and back down to where I had parked at the Hummocks TH. It was not the most lovely day, with clouds gathering on Coldwater Peak. By the…
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20180521 Coldwater Lake, MSHNVM
Mike and I took a dayhike up the first 2.3 miles of Lakes Trail #211 along Coldwater Lake, up to the lovely waterfall right next to the trail – I wish I knew the name of that creek. It was a warm, slightly breezy day, the air was full of sun and the spring scent…
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20180518 Eruption Day Hike to Harry’s Ridge, MSHNVM
Another anniversary of the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens, and once again, I took the day to be there. I can see this becoming an annual pilgrimage. This is the time of year that everything begins to wake up, and the highest reaches of the Monument are melting out. This is also the time of…
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20180513 South Coldwater Ridge Trail, MSHNVM
South Coldwater Trail bested me last week, I only made it 4.5 miles up the trail before being turned around by snow. South Coldwater Trail bested me again. This time, however, I managed to fight my way up to the 6.5 mile mark. Wildflowers are just beginning to bloom. Along the lower reaches of the…
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20180507 South Coldwater Ridge Trail, MSHNVM
Spent Monday afternoon hiking up the South Coldwater Ridge Trail, MSHNVM. I wasn’t able to make it up and over to the Boundary Trail, and to the JRO (I turned about at the northernmost point of the trail), but did have a lovely evening stroll along Coldwater lake on my return. I was a bit…
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20170724 Windy Ridge Road, MSHNVM
It was time to return to Loowit. With summer getting into full swing, I was anxious to explore Windy Ridge Rd, which I had worked my way up to the end of on my last hike, where I explored the Pumice Plain and Sasquatch Steps, having ascended the toe of Windy Ridge along the access…
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20170518 Eruption Day – JRO to Loowit Trail, MSHNVM
Eruption Day! I hiked up the Loowit Trail to the JRO.