Our latest event in what's shaping up to be a very busy fall was a weekend in Portland. Our good friend Victoria (from Minneapolis) was there for work. Our friends Alex and Crystal made the 3-hour trip from Seattle with us. We all had fun eating and drinking our way through town while enjoying perfect weather.
On the way home on Sunday we decided to take a detour off busy I-5 to go to a visitor center at Mount St. Helens National Monument. We were a good 40 miles away from the mountain and didn't have time to go any closer - that's a trip for another day.
None of us had our cameras along, but the picture above is a webcam shot of the mountain on Sunday afternoon. The big explosion that blew the top 1300' off what used to be the Cascades' most beautiful volcano was in 1980. St. Helens has been erupting on-and-off ever since; the most recent eruptive period ended this past July. In the picture you can see the steaming lava dome that has built itself up in the crater over the past 28 years.
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