Helens again

[snoboy]

Awesome pics from the crater:

 

http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/

[barjor]

So when I buy the annual climbing permit valid for Mt Adams and St Helens wouldn't you think it should be cheaper when I can only use half of it.

[graupel]

You are already a sucker for buying the permit, so what do you want? Heck, they will probably just raise the rate when they add St. Helens back on the Volcano Pass making it more expensive than before.

 

If you pay the fee, you give them license to charge whatever they want. Only by not paying it can you influence their behavior and policies.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Climbs Adams twice.

[olyclimber]

From what I hear the official ascent record for the south spur is 2:39. If you really want to get your money's worth, climb it 4 times in one day. I'll be your official timer.

[catbirdseat]

I was just reading about the hot spot that underlies Yellowstone National Park. The geologists were looking for a caldera that they knew must be there, but they weren't finding it. Then they looked at aerial photos and they said, "holy crap, the whole park is a caldera ". The Yellowstone region has produced three caldera-forming eruptions in the past 2 million years, two of those among the largest eruptions known to have occurred on Earth (each more than 1,000 cubic kilometers). In one explosive event at Yellowstone, enough material was ejected to cover Nebraska under 10 feet of ash. If St. Helens' eruption of 1980 were the size of a golf ball, the Yellowstone event would be equivalent to the Topanga Boulder. I don't want to be around the next time Yellowstone blows.

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

It's "due".

 

And apparently the magma chamber is filling again. The original geological survey data seemed to be "off". When measurements were taken again recently, it seems the water level in the lake is rising, suggesting something is causing the lake bed to swell...