Mt Rainier and Mt St Helens
Mt Rainier
We visited both Mt Rainier and Mt St Helens. Contrasting mountains. The slopes of Mt Rainier were so green with a lovely snowy cap. Mt St Helens still shows the scars of the 1980 volcanic eruption with barren slopes, barren trees, landslide scrapes, and a huge crater at the side of the mountain. On both mountains wildflowers were abundant.
On Mt Rainier we hiked through an old forest of amazing tall trees and also hiked to a very high waterfall. On Mt St Helens we learned much about the volcanic eruption and how it has changed the landscape.
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- Mt Rainier
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- rock palisades
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- Douglas Fir
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- crossing bridge
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- we are small!
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- huge tree
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- Mt Rainier
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- deep canyon
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- surrounding mountains
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- meadow beneath Rainier
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- Mt Rainier
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- flowers
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- Mt Rainier
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- waterfall
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- first view of Mt St Helens
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- river valley below St Helens
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- flowers in volcanic soil
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- Mt St Helens
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- logs from volcanic blast
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- Mt St Helens
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- Spirit Lake
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- flowers in volcanic soil
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- trees from volcanic blast
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- trees from volcanic blast