Mount St. Helens National Monument, Wa - USA (July 27-28, 2011)

We arrive at the Mount St. Helens National Monument after visiting Lava Canyon (not worth it...). The main entrance of Mount St. Helens is situated close to Castle Rock. We find a camping 5 miles away from the closest visitor Center. Alain has noticed that he put our locker chain to close to his exhaust pipe and it melted. Time to use our tool kit !

Problem : the numbers don t turn anymore ! Above picture of McGiver using a swiss knife !

The swiss knife did not work. Notice of another tool, the use of the key and the glove, so that it does not slip !

Victory ! it worked !

Time for celebration with red wine in our camping cups !





The history of Mount St. Helens is fascinating, as it is a changing landscape you can see there. On Sunday May 18, 1980, Mount St Helens blew 60,000 feet of heated ash into the sky. An earthquake with a 5.1 magnitude shifted the earth underneath the active vola
Fast facts :
- The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens caused the largest landslide in recorded history.
- The lateral blast removed the upper 1306 ft (396 m) of the volcano.

Above is a picture of Mount St.  Helens before May 18, 1980

Above is the picture of what it looks like now !



- Over 1000 commercial flights were canceled following airport closures due to ash and debris.
- During peak summer months, more than 800 truckloads of salvageable timber were retrieved each day. Weyerhaueser employees planted 18,400,000 trees by hand in an effort to rebuild some of the forest after the blast. It took workers four years to complete this projet.

We spend a full day in the Mount St. Helens Park as they are many stops on the way with visitor center to learn more about it. It`s another fantastic day under a clear blue sky and we can discover Mount St Helens.

July 29, 2011 and it's time to be On the Road again... towards Saint-Lazare, Quebec.