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If you look carefully, you can see a faint Mount Hood in the distance.
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One of the many bridges spanning the Williamette River.
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The moon was spectacular on the night of my birthday.
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We drove two hours to an Indian Reservation casino, so we visited the nearby ocean.
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The view was incredible. It's a shame it was so hazy.
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On the hill is the Vista House.
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Zoomed in.
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We drove around to the Vista House.
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It was fenced off, so we couldn't enter.
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My finger fell on the button.
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This one was my favorite falls.
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The highest falls we visited...
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The path to the top was one mile of winding uphill.
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On the long walk up, there was plenty of beauty to ponder...
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Here's where the falls begin. Notice on the right, the viewing platform where we came from.
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I can't remember where this is...
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A few more views of the precipice from the top
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When I stopped for a little break, this little guy was only 18 inches from my camera.
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Isn't he cute?
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I'm glad I wasn't driving; it would have been hard to take all this in while maintaining control of the
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We turned the corner and suddenly it filled our vision!
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Despite the haze, it was breathtaking.
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The mountain wasn't the only beautiful scenery.
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The highest point you can go via car is here, where The Shining was filmed.
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I liked this little lake in the distance.
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...in the hazy distance. At this point we are at an elevation of 500'.
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that it looks like a mountain with the top missing.
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that's because that's what it is.
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Helicopter rides were available from this stop-off. Elevation: 1,400'
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Here's a preview of part of the area devastated by the volcano's blast. The lateral blast from Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 blew 16 miles into the air, and creating an incredible landslide nearly leveling the mountain. The 700+ m.p.h. blast devastated forest and wildlife for miles around.
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"Highway 504 Bridge spans Hoffstadt Creek, 370 feet (113 meters) below. This area is near the western limit of the zone affected by the 1980 blast. From here east, all but the strongest trees or those in the lee of ridges were blown down. Mounds composing the far end of the debris-avalanche deposit are visible to the south in the valley bottom."
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Yes, we're about to drive over it.
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of devastation from 1980
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Notice the small grooves in the earth even from this distance
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only a small amount of vegetation has begun to grow
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of the iceberg landslide
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Look at all the tree carcasses...
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Remember this is a super-zoom of a downed forest. Each of tree carcasses are hundreds of feet long.
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At this range of about 30 miles away, there is very little green to this day.
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This is a super-zoom of Mount Adams, which is about 35 miles from Mount St. Helens. When Mount St. Helens blew, it sent burning embers and pinecones down on top of the people standing on Mount Adams. Yes, really.
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of Mount St. Helens on the far right.
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this as a thick, luscious, green forest.
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from the landslide are incredible
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It has a peak!
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After the kabloey
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Notice the lava mound in the middle there.
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