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Caves:
Mt. St. Helens
Mt. St. Helens
About 2 hours south of Seattle is the
Mt.
St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
Mt. St. Helens is the most active volcano in the
continental United States. With the last
eruption occurring on March 8, 2005 at about
5:30pm PST, when a 36,000-foot plume of steam
and presumably ash was witnessed emerging from
the volcano, accompanied by a tremor that
measured about 2.5 on the Richter scale. The
plume was visible from the metropolitan areas of
Seattle, Washington to Salem, Oregon, but only
lasted for about 20-30 minutes.
The forest service has issued an advisory: as
November 9, 2005 Forest visitors near the
volcano need to be
prepared for a potential ash fall.
There are plenty
of activities in the area to entertain you and
your family. Additionally, even though the
mountain is currently closed to climbing, the
Forest Service is actively pursuing reopening
the mountain for that purpose. See
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/recreation/mount-st-helens/index.shtml
for the latest information.
Ape Cave is the most popular cave in the
monument, however there are a large number of
caves in the area, including
Lake Cave
and Ole's Cave.
Mount St. Helens
Pre-Convention Campout - August 03, 2006
- August 06, 2006
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