Mount St. Helens

This picture of the crater at Mt. St. Helens was taken in mid June this year and shows the base of the newest dome and it is just possible to make out the snouts of two glacial tongues to either side of the dome. The cloud base is just sitting at the elevation of this newest activity. The foreground shows rock avalanche and lahar deposits from the 1980 eruption, dissected by later streams and lahars. The little chipmunk below (can you see him?) is sitting on a tree knocked down in the blast from 1980. Much of the area has been reforested all around here after incredibly intensive replanting of commercial forestry areas (by hand!) and these trees, only 27 years later, are many metres tall.