On Sunday, Ingrid and I biked an easy 15 miles from Packwood to Randle and then a more challenging 20 miles (with 2000 feet of climbing) to the junction of routes 25 and 99. There, we swapped sag duties with Alison and drove about 15 miles in to the Mount St Helens National Monument. Strongest impressions: vast scale of devastation (now recovering), huge missing section of the volcano's cone, and the beautiful blue Spirit Lake half covered by bleached logs that were flattened by the blast and then swept into the lake by a tsunami-like wave of water that washed the nearby hillsides. More than 3 decades later, the logs are still a dominant feature of the lake's surface.
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Are those logs in the lake in the second to last picture? It looks very unusual!
Yes, those are the bleached logs that were once the trees that covered the adjacent hills before the blast from the volcano cleared the land!
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