{"id":458,"date":"2012-08-22T21:24:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T04:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-08-27T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T17:21:45","slug":"august-22-mount-st-helens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/08\/22\/august-22-mount-st-helens\/","title":{"rendered":"August 22: Mount St. Helens"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mount<\/a>
Entrance to the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mile 4252 – Stevenson, Washington<\/strong> (in the Columbia River Valley).<\/p>\n

We woke up to gray skies at the west entrance to Mount Rainier National Park.\u00a0 Even had some drizzle on the way up the mountain. Rainier remained in the clouds as we drove out of the park, but then again it cleared miraculously and we had a wonderful, crystal-clear afternoon by the time we got to Mount St. Helens.<\/p>\n

I first visited Mount St. Helens in 1982, two years after the eruption.\u00a0 It was a moonscape then.\u00a0 Now it was much greener.\u00a0 Spirit Lake\u00a0still has some\u00a0floating logs left over from the eruption, but it looks much clearer now, and life is coming back more than diverse than before.<\/p>\n

Drove through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest all day. Reached the Columbia River Valley by evening.<\/p>\n

\"Mount<\/a>
The North Side of Mount St. Helens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dead<\/a>
Standing Trees from the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Blowdown<\/a>
Blowdown Trees from the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Crater<\/a>
Crater View of Mount St. Helens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Stairs<\/a>
Stairs to the Mount St. Helens Windy Point Overlook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Spirit<\/a>
Spirit Lake at Mount St. Helens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[Photographs © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mile 4252 – Stevenson, Washington (in the Columbia River Valley). We woke up to gray skies at the west entrance to Mount Rainier National Park.\u00a0 Even had some drizzle on the way up the mountain. Rainier remained in the clouds as we drove out of the park, but then again it cleared miraculously and we … Continue reading “August 22: Mount St. Helens”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2018,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}