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Originally Posted by Heybuck
Back in May 1999 I was visiting friends in Portland OR. That gave me reason to meet with Peter Klabo (Ventures Unlimited) at the same time. Peter invited me to join him to drive up the Washington River to a town called Dulles if I remember correctly.
We drove past the Mt St. Helens site and I was gobsmacked at the destruction and that was 19 years past the event.
We never have those sorts of events in Australia (no volcanoes at all) and even an earthquake is a real rarity so just seeing the power of that explosion has never left my mind. Amazing.
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Columbia River and The Dalles.
We used to camp at Spirit Lake every year. In 79 I met Harry Truman, he gave me some worms to use as bait. Still didn't catch anything. Had my first 10 spd and we rode up to the snow line, then coasted all the way down to the boat launch on the lake.
We were planning to camp there again in 1980 after school got out for summer. The mountain blew the day before my 10th birthday.