Mt. St. Helens Adventure

We stopped by Mount St. Helens.  Unfortunately it was a cloudy day and did not get to see the mountain it's self. But we had an awesome adventure anyway. 

This is Mount St. Helens before it erupted on May 18, 1980.

This is after the volcano had blew it's top.  We learned that Mount St. Helen is growing back and they expect it to blow again some time in the next 100 years.

The boys learned a lot about how volcano's work.

The boys worked hard and earned their Junior Ranger Badge.

One of the coolest things that the boys enjoyed was playing with the seismograph.

If it had not been a cloudy day this would have been an awesome view of the mountain.

This is a standing house that was flooded with mud, ash lava flow. 

Here is a photograph of the owners of the house before the volcano blew. 

Here is the after photo.  You can see the family standing on mud up to the windows of the house.

Our most interesting adventure while at Mount St. Helens was BIGFOOT! We found out that this area of the country is known for Bigfoot sitings. Here we found a huge statue of Bigfood himself.  It has been said that the volcano killed Bigfoot, but there have been sitings since so he is still alive in the green gloomy Mountains of Mount St. Helens.

Here are foot molds of the Bigfoot that has been spotted around the area.

Such big pin cones are produced by these mountain trees.

Awesome waterfalls all over the place.

Never spotted Bigfoot but found a mama deer and her baby.

Here we are near the top of the mountain view spot.  You can see how white with clouds the back drop looks.

We found snow on the top.

Wish we could have saw the volcano it's self, but over all it was a cool adventure.