Cougar, United States

Angela, poor Angela.  She came to visit me in Portland, and she learned a valuable lesson: don't listen to me.  I assured her that our climb up Mt. St. Helens would be no problem at all.  Her first indication of a problem might have been ...

we are now in Mount St Helens in an rv park thats so much nicer than that sounds. Basic but super friendly. Tourists from the UK very very rare out here. Making fires and toasting marshmallows.Kids have had a great time and have made loads of friends. Dom ...

Our next stop was another volcanic Cascade mountain, Mt. St. Helens. Mt. St. Helens erupted (more like exploded) on May 18, 1980, triggered by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake.  I remembered the newspaper and TV coverage on the devastation that occurred, ...

I climbed what is left of the mountain. It lost 1800 of the 10500 feet in the 1980 explosion. Despite the scare stories Id been fed it all went pretty smoothly except for the last 1600 feet which is thick ash and was truly brutal, vertical beach ...