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Gallery: In the Blast Zone: Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, August 2009

In the Blast Zone: Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, August 2009

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Scenes from the blast zone, almost 30 years after the devastating May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens.

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  1. As Coldwater Creek erodes its banks, tree trunks buried by the 1980 eruption are exposed. This GigaPan is a restitch of www.gigapan.org/gigapans/32098

  2. This GigaPan was shot early in the morning from the Windy Ridge viewpoint in the eastern portion of Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. At 1900 input images it took two hours to shoot and almost a full day to stitch on my brand new workstation. But the result is all I had hoped for and more. Now that I've fin...

  3. At least this roadcut was below the clouds. You can see the 1980 ash deposit near the top of the cut.

  4. This was supposed to be a spectacular shot of the new lava domes in the crater formed by the 1980 eruption. Instead, it's just a view of the pyroclastic deposits downslope of the crater. I suppose the weather could've been worse.

  5. Just around the corner from where Gary Rosenquist snapped the famous series of photos of the beginning of the eruption of Mount St. Helens on the morning of May 18, 1980. This is near the edge of the blast zone; many trees were knocked down here but quite a few were still standing, albeit stripped of their branches.

  6. This area was in the distal region of the Devastated Zone from the May 18, 1980 Mt. St. Helens blast. Note how below the road the forest regeneration is at a far more advanced stage than above the road. This is the result of tree plantings in the lower area by the timber companies that own the land.

  7. Devastation from the May 18, 1980 lateral blast from Mt. St. Helens is visible in this view from the Harmony parking area on the road to Windy Ridge. The northeast corner of Spirit Lake is visible in the distance.

  8. Still jammed with floating logs nearly thirty years later.

  9. ... well within the devastated zone.

  10. This is a small version of www.gigapan.org/gigapans/57636