Fall 2018: Mt. St. Helens

By mid-November, we were finally settled in enough to begin venturing further out into the northwest. Oliver was very interested in volcanoes, so we figured a visit to Mt. St. Helens was in order. We were too late in the season for the visitor center, but we found a very nice consolation prize in the June Lake Trail.

Views of the summit from the trail were quite nice, especially against the vibrant blue sky.

Although the June Lake Trail runs through an area that wasn't hit particularly hard when the mountain erupted, there are still views of areas where lava and mud flowed down the mountainside.

And there's a lake! With a waterfall!

It was a beautiful day ...

...and it wasn't even over yet!