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Re: [OM] More Chinook Pass and the debut of Mt. St. Helens

Subject: Re: [OM] More Chinook Pass and the debut of Mt. St. Helens
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 22:08:55 -0400
The big eruption was 1980 (but still small compared to some volcanos) 
Lot of minor burps and belches in the years afterward.
<http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Publications/MSHPPF/MSH_past_present_future.html>

Chuck Norcutt


Wayne Harridge wrote:
> Impressive shots and impressive numbers.
> 
> How long ago did it erupt ?
> 
> ...Wayne
> 
> 
>> Chuck Norcutt <> wrote:
>>
>> Photos in the order they were taken.  The first three are Chinook Pass 
>> on the east side of Mt. Rainier including the one already shown here.
>>
>> The last is looking into the caldera of Mt. St. Helens across the valley 
>>
>> near the visitor's center.  Had I been standing in that same spot when 
>> it erupted I'd have not only been dead but probably never found.  The 
>> pyroclastic flow went down into the valley and then back up the ridge I 
>> was standing on and bowled right over the top of the ridge at about 300 
>> mph.  But Google Earth says Mt. St. Helens is about 30 miles away from 
>> the visitor's center so I'd have had about 6 minutes to make a run for 
>> it.  :-)
>>
>> More Mt. St. Helens to come.  The light was good.
>> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Mt%20Rainier/index.htm>
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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> ...Wayne
> 
> Wayne Harridge
> 
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