Mt St. Helens

181lizard Cave Dweller Still lurking :) Member since December 2005 Posts: 2,171	Mt St. Helens Jul 17, 2006 22:45:21 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 181lizard on Jul 17, 2006 22:45:21 GMT -5 Kinda hazy, but this is one of my views from my front deck. Signing off for the nite...bye ya'll!
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sandsman1 In Memoriam RIP John "sandsman1" Member since December 2003 Posts: 11,341	Mt St. Helens Jul 17, 2006 23:00:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by sandsman1 on Jul 17, 2006 23:00:20 GMT -5 dam how come you aint over there diggin obsidian hahaha bet there a bunch ----- great view
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stoner no longer being taken for granite THE EARTH IS JUST A ROCK TUMBLING THROUGH SPACE Member since March 2003 Posts: 7,715	Mt St. Helens Jul 17, 2006 23:47:57 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stoner on Jul 17, 2006 23:47:57 GMT -5 so where were you when that thing blew it's top? Looks like you're on the opposite side.

gaetzchamp driving up their electric bill Falcarius Utahensis Member since December 2004 Posts: 2,202	Mt St. Helens Jul 18, 2006 0:15:54 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by gaetzchamp on Jul 18, 2006 0:15:54 GMT -5 Great view. Hope that 'ol man doesn't decide to "belch" anytime soon. gaetz
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Mt St. Helens Jul 18, 2006 4:18:35 GMT -5

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Post by LCARS on Jul 18, 2006 4:18:35 GMT -5

When it blew it's top you could see it from here in Victoria!

Even some of the ash landed over here, it was crazy that day!

On a clear day you can easilly see Mount Baker from here too. It's over a mile high so it's kinda hard to miss.

You just gotta respect the raw power of the earth in perspective.
I just watched a special on Krakatoa a couple weeks ago too. Man that musta been sumthin! It would be like Hawaii blowing up or something today. I often try to imagine what that would be like and it just boggles the mind ya know. The only thing I can think of worse is a massive impact scenario. I wonder how loud that would be & how much the whole earth would rumble?

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pho Guest	Mt St. Helens Jul 18, 2006 7:19:36 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by pho on Jul 18, 2006 7:19:36 GMT -5 I could stand to look at that all day...just imagin sittin' on the deck early in the mornig with a nice cup of hot coffee...just relaxing.....what a life. I envy you Liz for your views..... Pho

rockyraccoon no longer being taken for granite Member since December 2003 Posts: 7,980	Mt St. Helens Jul 18, 2006 10:09:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 18, 2006 10:09:31 GMT -5 what's a front deck? we don't have front decks or mountains here lol. kim

stefan Cave Dweller Member since January 2005 Posts: 14,113	Mt St. Helens Jul 18, 2006 10:25:26 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by stefan on Jul 18, 2006 10:25:26 GMT -5 Kim- Just turn your house around (LMAO) WOnderful view Liz
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Mt St. Helens Jul 18, 2006 11:23:26 GMT -5

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Stoner, we do have the view of the opposite side. Mountain blew on NE side & I live on SW side.
At the time it started to rumble, I think I was coming home from work in Portland. (Gotta remember it was 26 years ago!) Can't exactly remember where I was when the big one spewed, but Lcars is right, it was crazy that day. Hell, we'd never been through a mountain blowin up! People were freaked out about breathing in the micro pieces of glass in the ash...Cars would just stop in the middle of where ever they were if they got too much ash in their engine parts. (sorry guys...I'm not much for knowin about cars & stuff)
I had never been to the mountain before it blew. Hubbys relatives from Louisiana came to stay with us (about a year of two afterwards) & I drove them up to see. People are right when they say it looked like the moon. Very surreal.
Sands...I've gone up there lookin for rocks just once before last winter. I'm going to try going again in the next couple of weeks. I'll let ya know what I find! (if anything!) The really spectacular thing is, it's only about 45 min. away!

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Bikerrandy can identify rocks - even green ones Say what?? Member since September 2005 Posts: 15,688	Mt St. Helens Jul 18, 2006 19:08:47 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Bikerrandy on Jul 18, 2006 19:08:47 GMT -5 Wow, that's the view from your house? All I get to see is the neighbor's houses!
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rocklicker driving up their electric bill Member since January 2006 Posts: 2,586	Mt St. Helens Jul 19, 2006 4:03:13 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rocklicker on Jul 19, 2006 4:03:13 GMT -5 That's an amazing view. Just make sure it aint rumbling when you go looking for rocks. Or when it does, put some buckets in your yard and wait to see what falls into them! Mountains are so beautiful. Steve

junerev spending too much on rocks Member since April 2006 Posts: 265	Mt St. Helens Jul 19, 2006 6:02:25 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by junerev on Jul 19, 2006 6:02:25 GMT -5 We lived out in Bangor for three years....that picture really makes me miss Washington. People back east used to tease me about the weather being so bad, but hey, when it's clear, there's nothing like it. Great view! June

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Mt St. Helens Jul 19, 2006 10:25:19 GMT -5

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Well, here I was this morning, doing the usual coffee & newpaper. There was an article about Mt. St. Helens & they had just re-opened it for hiking along the ridge again.
They went on to say that Tuesday, they had the largest quake recorded in the last 2 years (3.6) and they are making people that register for a hike, wear helmets because the mountain throws up tons of rock into the air & people can get bombed!

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opportunity is for the taking. Look inside yourself, you'll see. Then go clean up your own backyard...leave my yard to me.
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junerev spending too much on rocks Member since April 2006 Posts: 265	Mt St. Helens Jul 19, 2006 13:03:10 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by junerev on Jul 19, 2006 13:03:10 GMT -5 Oooooo rockhunting where the rocks come to you? Now that could be fun. June

181lizard Cave Dweller Still lurking :) Member since December 2005 Posts: 2,171	Mt St. Helens Jul 20, 2006 1:46:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 181lizard on Jul 20, 2006 1:46:24 GMT -5 I never thought of that! I'm gonna wear a bucket on my head if I get close enough! (Last time I wore a bucket on my head was on my 40th birthday. I thought I was hysterical!)
	liz opportunity is for the taking. Look inside yourself, you'll see. Then go clean up your own backyard...leave my yard to me. rossington collins band.

Debs fully equipped rock polisher Member since February 2005 Posts: 1,252	Mt St. Helens Jul 20, 2006 1:49:28 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Debs on Jul 20, 2006 1:49:28 GMT -5 I know what you mean Kim! We don't have mountains here, so there is no need for decks either. When we do build them it's juist so we can sit up higher and look out over the neighborhood! LOL!