Mt. St. Helens Photographs by Garry DeLong

Post-eruption: after May 18, 1980

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Mt. St. Helens Volcano, in Washington State, Summer, 1991. View from the South side.

Mt. St. Helens from a farm on the South of the mountain.

Mt. St. Helens, view from a North by Northeast direction, showing the lateral crater and part of the emerging central cone, which may eventually rebuild the top of the mountain.

Two hikers round a bend on the Harmony Trail, which leads to the shore of Spirit Lake, near the base of Mt. St. Helens

This automobile was crumpled like a piece of cardboard by the mountain's explosion.

The desolate Plains of Abraham, at the base of Mt. St. Helens, looking back at Spirit Lake. Eventually, this barren piece of land will return to the alpine meadow that it once was before the eruption.

Rows of timber laid down by the blast of the volcano lay in the foreground. In the background is Spirit Lake. The white material floating on the surface of the lake is a mass of logs, blown into the lake when the volcano exploded 11 years earlier.

You're right, there's something very odd about this picture. Actually, it's a piece of wood floating on the surface of Spirit Lake at the shoreline. Even though the surface of the water is littered with floating detritus, the water itself is amazingly clear, giving the floating piece of wood the appearance of being suspended in mid-air.

A closeup of the mountain from the Northeast side. The opening of the lateral crater can just be seen near the right side of the photograph.

An airliner takes off at sunset as Mt St Helens volcano erupts This photo was taken during the summer of 1980 from South of the mountain during a smaller eruption after the major event on May 18, 1980

A portion of the ash-laden Northeastern flank of Mt. St. Helens, in the late afternoon sun.

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