A Dangerous Glacier Grows Inside Mount St. Helens' Crater | OPB

[@nhmooytis7058]

Thanks I was running out of things to worry about.

[@shogunate2022]

LOL

[@Thorocious]

LOL

[@Jablicek]

Don't worry, we stil have the 'rona floating around.

[@lyndadale6255]

Lincoln Colt 😂 lol , they say meditation helps.

[@mclarsen61]

😆🤣😂👍

[@simpletruth9977]

Charlie's determination to die on that volcano is astounding.

[@nicosmind3]

If he keeps going the way hes going he'll get that wish

[@tannerdenny5430]

respek

[@zkeletonz001]

He gives off serious professor Frink vibes.

[@am3818]

he's a praying man haha God protects him!

[@fatamorgana8939]

we all die, its just a matter of how and when, if he dies doing what he loves best, then its a good death

[@debbiechristofferson6694]

"big as a volkswagon". I've heard that expression a thousand times. It should officially be a unit of measure.

[@PlaceStillMatters]

“Twice the size of Texas” is an internationally accepted measure of area.

[@AgniFirePunch]

In America we typically use Ford F150's and football fields

[@gewglesux]

How about "as big as my Ex's bum"?

[@Penfold8]

@@gewglesux Careful of what you say. Your current's bum could potentially exceed your ex's bum.

[@FPVsean]

Americans try make bogus comparisons to any random objects.. Next it'll be cheezburgers

[@Anna_Stetik]

"You're just a visitor, and hopefully you're welcome." The absolute respect for nature in that statement - perfect. I was 10 and living in WA state when this blew. Several hours away and still heard it. Had ash coating everything - the sky, the ground, everything, for 2 solid weeks.

[@junocrusader5860]

Hi there! I remember vividly.I was 12 living in the Kootney area of B.C.Some of the ash came to town as we are only a few hours away from Spokane.The eruption was all over the news for weeks.Do you remember hearing about the old man who refused to leave his home regardless of all the warnings?

[@Anna_Stetik]

@@junocrusader5860 Yes. I was sad as a kid because I saw him being interviewed when trying to get him to understand that they were positive it would erupt, but he said he wasn't leaving. Once I found out what that loud explosion was, I knew he was dead. I think he had a pet with him, too. But now, as an adult, I kind of get him. I remember he was old, so he probably had enough of society, and just wanted to live the rest of his life out in peace in his cabin home. However, that was not a peaceful way to die.

[@junocrusader5860]

@@Anna_Stetik Ya. Me too. As a kid I thought he was being foolish. But my parents explained that people get too old and tired to fight anymore. He was accepting fate and died where he belonged. It's sad but ya I get it now too. Cheers. God Bless!

[@Sebastianmaz615]

I caught that also, ... "hopefully you're welcome." 😊

[@kitlabossiere9931]

I lived in Long Beach and remember the ash covering our cars and everything. Went there after it blew…. those images will never leave my mind. Hundreds of huge trees down like a box of wooden toothpicks….the thick ash over everything was unimaginable. The quietness was eerie and profoundly sad.

[@ericcarabetta1161]

This blowing in 2020 would be very fitting for how things have been so far this year.

[@chefdan87]

@FUCK TRUMP It would be far better if the entire democrat party and their supporters where sacrificed.

[@Bournemouth07]

I'm thinking Yellowstone!

[@jonathannagel7427]

chefdan87 But then who would continue to support underpaid teachers attempting to teach English to people like you? *Democratic *were

[@chefdan87]

@@jonathannagel7427 Is that your only defense grammar nazi? Lol sad.

[@chefdan87]

@FUCK TRUMP Try again child your response doesn't make any sense.

[@shadowprince4482]

I enjoy outdoor thrill seeking activities but ice caving on an active volcano might be my limit.

[@zabienshaw9485]

Lol

[@slappy8941]

It sounds like a perfect place to practice juggling rattlesnakes, burning torches, live hand grenades, and chainsaws while blindfolded.

[@marvinthiessen3454]

@Amy Sternheim Overkill liability is the new norm, sigh. We've traded fun for safety and lawsuits.

[@spo616]

Shadow Rice”IceExplosipns!!!!!!!!😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱🤗🤗🤗🤗

[@jimiplayscobo5877]

@@marvinthiessen3454 I was just thinking earlier how when I was growing up there were no seat belts in cars. Another one is when you smoked cigars in Hospitals to celebrate your Wife giving birth. Nowadays you wouldn't dream of doing half the things I did growing up because of safety concerns. Not to say they were safe it's just the way it was :-) Peace

[@lesharrington4174]

I spent a couple years planting trees in the blast zone, beginning the year after the blast. It was an unreal place, with earthquakes and loud booms coming from the mountain, intermittently.

[@MatanuskaHIGH]

GMO Cline trees? Like tree farm style?

[@dwjoseph59]

Imagine being in this mountain range if one of them begins to blow?!?! All you can do afterwards is say the hail mary, pray, run, hope that you can make it to safety and/or that it stops.

[@susanhowell1673]

Even at a distance, it is just plain creepy. Mt. Adams can be too.

[@marvinthiessen3454]

@@dwjoseph59 A couple "Our Fathers", a few "Hail Mary's" and "Notre Dame sucks", that should do it.

[@peacelove7872]

Les Harrington I remember my Dads property in Northern Idaho was covered in ash. I think it’s great you planted trees. What a way to give back. ☮️💕

[@oletomlinson1173]

My wife and I were driving north on I5 to Kent, south of Seattle, when it blew. We couldn't comprehend what we were looking at. It was surrealistic. I had to turn on the radio to figure out what was happening. The blast was in full view. We drove around for weeks with a nylon on the air cleaner to protect the engine. Eastern Washington took the brunt of the ash, but it was a mess on our side too.

[@Hunt_or_Die]

I just learned that nylons can filter volcanic ash, thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I wonder if that means that nylons are MORE effective than a standard air filter 🤔.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

"Today we'll be visiting a volcano." "Okay" "An active volcano" "Okay" "That blew up in 1980" "Okay" "We'll stand on a growing glacier" "Okay" "Then we'll go under the glacier...into caves" "Are you sure?" "Yes, the earthquakes don't happen all the time.." "Earthquakes? While we're under a glacier....on a active volcano? "It's fine....the gas will suffocate you first."

[@C.Medina]

👏👏👏😂

[@martinhagalen1705]

Ok... I have nothing better to do anyway

[@breezy3725]

Just watched 2 documentaries about Mt. St. Helens....intense!

[@9realitycheck9]

Oh....and watch your step.. don't fall into the 170 degree hot springs... ....forgot to mentionn the volcanic dust getting into your lungs has microscopic glass particles in it...

[@maxwellcatlett3653]

PM Beaham and every 5 seconds, it stabs your balls

[@nashvillain171]

*1:44** The Volkswagen is an official unit of measure.*

[@highdownmartin]

Camper or beetle

[@stephenspreckley8219]

@@highdownmartin Beetle of course, everyone knows the size of those,lol!

[@warrenrodgers7544]

Lol

[@RANDOMNATION907]

only if it's yellow ...... like a banana

[@vitaly6312]

Can we change it to Tesla model 3? It’s 2020 and the beetle is out of production..

[@slayer8actual]

“If it went off like it did in 1980, we wouldn’t be alive” and that is why he's the expert volcano dude.

[@timwilcox4972]

Yes yes, he's a very scientific man who'd of thunked they'd be dead standing there on the edge of a 🌋 volcano , this is why he's payed the big bucks

[@dddmemaybe]

@@timwilcox4972 I doubt he's paid very much to be honest. Also his job on the research is much more discovery oriented rather than solving the puzzles that uses the information he finds.

[@Shaky80]

What? It went off in 80 and we are still alive. I lived on the mountain in 80 and I'm still alive

[@jameshogue1639]

Rocket man

[@TechWithSean]

They knew it was going to blow back in the day, it didn’t just happen spontaneously.

[@mjleger4555]

I remember anticipating the eruption Mt. Helens several weeks before it occurred. And I vividly remember the morning it actually erupted 42 years ago on 5-18-80! My spouse was watching TV in the family room and I was watching TV in the bedroom when it came over the news around 8:40 a.m.! People had been evacuating for a while before the eruption, but it was still amazing though expected, as no one knew exactly when it would happen. I had family in Washington, and visited up there a while after the eruption, when all had quieted down again. I still have the little "lava" dog that I bought in a souvenir shop up there. I remember seeing Mt. Rainier and being in awe about how beautiful it was, an innocent-looking snow-covered mountain, which COULD erupt same as all those other mountains I used to ski on in the Cascade Range! But you wouldn't find me hiking in the crater on Mt. St. Helens, for any amount of money! Our Planet Earth is VERY active and although I know that today, there are sensors on all the mountains in the "Ring of Fire" -- I'm not taking chances of half a mountain coming down on me, like it did that one man who said "Vancouver, Vancouver -- this is it, this is it!" as he was watching the mountain erupt. He lost his life. I'll never forget that! It's bad enough that I live within about 180 miles of Yellowstone, and if that massive crater ever goes, I'm toast! But you can't live in fear, so if it blows, it blows! Scientists say it could erupt tomorrow or 100 years from now, but that it WILL erupt some day. As long as Old Faithful and all the mud puddles keep bubbling, I know the pressure probably won't build up, but I've stopped keeping track of it! It's not worth living in fear, what will be, will be!

[@deborahaumiller7391]

I was in Oklahoma baking an angel food cake around the time Mt. St. Helen blew. My cake fell on one side. I started crying yet my husband's friend helped fix it. He said "it looks like Mt. St. Helen"....and the aptly decorated volcano cake was born!👍😂👍

[@mjleger4555]

@@deborahaumiller7391 Funny! But I'd rather bake a rainbow cake than a volcano one!

[@HANKTHEDANKEST]

You can rest a bit easier about Yellowstone--the latest science points away from any kind of catastrophic super-eruption occurring, and instead hints more towards "this place is really, really active, maybe watch out for hot stuff idk". I remember being fascinated by the idea of a supervolcano going BANG all at once, but more likely you'd get some kind of ongoing volcanic event spitting out magma and gases. You'd maybe see a drop-off in tourist numbers in the park, but everybody dies? Probs not.

[@mjleger4555]

@@HANKTHEDANKEST Thanks, but I'm not concerned about it, if it happens, it happens! I'm not prone to panic. Last summer or the one before, I had 3 telephone calls to evacuate when there was a forest fire about 15 miles north of my home. I kept my eye on things and decided if I saw flames, I'd evacuate. I am always prepared for a disaster, with a "grab-bag" and kennels for my pets and their grab-bag, should we really NEED to evacuate. Preparation gives you confidence, but not being over-confident.

[@timmellin2815]

Gotta be crazy to go inside those ice caves, which they said are constantly shifting. A quake could bury you inside one of those !

[@leaf2180]

You can see Mount St. Helens from my grandpa's house. I always love walking out in his yard and looking at Mount St. Helens and the top of Mount Rainier whenever I visit him. It's beautiful 😍

[@randyl74]

Yeah, my brother lives all the way over at the Puget Sound and on a clear day has a beautiful view of Mt. St. Helens.

[@crossleyr]

I thought this was from 10 months ago, but it's nearly 17 years old. It would be great if they did the trip again, just to see how things have moved on.

[@LivelyEngineer]

I’ve hiked the trail in the blast zone about a half mile from this location- The plants still haven’t grown back but there are plants in the glacial creeks otherwise completely barren still and super windy.

[@ghostlyme]

That growing dome blew in 2007 (I think)

[@somethingcleverrrr]

I was wondering when it was actually filmed because the footage doesn't look as pristine as it would for 2021. Thank you for the info.

[@DennisGr]

curious how old you are, i instantly recognized it as footage from the early 2000s, might be because of my age, might not.

[@TheHOOfan1]

@@somethingcleverrrr plus they are using CRT monitors which haven't been common for 10+ years

[@MartinFluteCompany]

I remember the morning it erupted. I heard two large blasts and wondered what it was. I was living on Whidbey Island and long distance away. Many got ash dumped all over the areas they lived but we were lucky and none landed on the Island. There was a crusty old codger living on the mountain and he refused to go saying he'd have no life without his beloved cabin there so if it goes he wanted to go with it. He was indeed on the side that went and perished that day along with fifty some odd who also lost their lives. I talked to one guy who was racing over a hundred miles per hour to escape the pyroclastic cloud heading his way. He past others in campers and such, he made it, they didn't. Mother nature is like being on the ocean; it's not forgiving and doesn't care who you are. If your in the wrong place at the wrong time it's over. Being the owner of a small fishing vessel I came to know that very well and was lucky to escape a few unpredicted storms. Water up to my knees, my deck hand tied to the drum bailing as fast as he could with a five gallon bucket. Once we ready safe haven that guy hit the road and stuck out his thumb after accusing me of being insane for doing such a job, lol. I'm 70 now and wonder how I made it this far but my thrill seeking adventures are just about over, I did say just about so we'll see what happens. God willing and the creek don't rise I'll be here next year to enjoy my kids and grandkids.

[@liamgriffin218]

I heard that after the initial blast some guy's grandma joked that "Maybe St Helen's finally erupted." Little did she know...

[@markpowell7470]

@gothael1 Give the guy a break...He got his story out...you do the paragraphing

[@somethingcleverrrr]

Hey, my dad is 73 and he is still going on constant adventures. He's a photographer and loves it more than basically everything.

[@kenjihemmert]

Wow great story!

[@rodm8131]

I remember watching the great space coaster, it was interrupted to show the eruption. I was 5.

[@danoc51]

I visited this place and the crater is astoundingly large...much bigger than any photos or videos I've ever seen. I've never been anywhere that made me realize that the power of nature is so large. When it blew, my mom lived to the west of it, in Montana, about 500 miles away. She said that the ash at her place was 4-inches deep.

[@godned74]

Yes and those same volcanoes laugh about the lie of global warming. Did you know that what actually killed the dinosaurs was all the volcanoes on earth exploding at the same time cause by an extra solar event. Fossils can only be formed by trapping the subject under pressure and heat.

[@danmulera5630]

The blast/eruption changed the geography in dramatic fashion. Now Montana is EAST of Mt. Saint Helen.

[@evan8654]

'Independent Geologist' essentially means 'Local Eccentric' and I love it!

[@RussClarkRocks]

I had a similar thought. Lol

[@cheddar2648]

Science used to be a hobby for eccentrics who supported themselves with other careers. It's nice that there are some fields like this and astronomy for which anybody can do it without the budget of a large public university.

[@evan8654]

@@cheddar2648 👍👍👍

[@JohnSmith-hn6kv]

Local Eccentric who can afford a helicopter ride there and back.

[@evan8654]

@@JohnSmith-hn6kv you can afford that if you put all your money into your hobby.

[@larrybrennan1463]

My sister was living in Portland in 1980. I wrote this limerick for her: A snow-covered mountain, St. Helens, After various rumblin's and swellin's, Spewed forth, with a crash, Indiscriminate ash Upon bystanders, victims, and felons.

[@marvinthiessen3454]

Don't forget our local radio personality Lars Lahar Larson, a Limbaugh-lite.

[@Tk-iz2ws]

So cute

[@waynevreeland3141]

Nice !!

[@JA-eq5um]

Will you marry me

[@georgerogers2120]

"And uh, a hardhat wouldn't do yah any good." I love scientists.

[@waynevreeland3141]

A master of understatement!

[@Selanium]

This guy is hilarious. He’s THAT uncle that we all have. Everything will be fine 🤣

[@kdigiacomo]

Same as a face mask at the grocery stores right now. False expectations. 05-25-2020 History will be marked. *This will be laughed about later.

[@16driver16]

@@kdigiacomo the face masks are to stop idiots from spreading it by coughing, sneezing, spitting while talking, etc not so much stop you from breathing it in, its not exactly like breathing fiberglass my dude, the mask serves a different purpose here.

[@kdigiacomo]

@@16driver16 - I'd assume you're a Democrat and believe in mandatory masks? 'my dude' Either that or you watch too much CNN and believe all their BS. Wanna have health issues and wear a mask, have fun with that. Government making it mandatory is a huge difference and an issue.

[@JEEDUHCHRI]

I’m glad Volkswagen is still the universal standard in sizing stuff.

[@ufafgd]

Agreed.They once tried using a house as the standard, but that just confused people because it meant a cottage to some and a mansion to others. So they said "let's mess with the Germans".

[@mikemartinez7440]

I flew over St Helen's in 09 for a funeral and it looked beautiful on one side and destruction on the other

[@cybrhunk333]

One can find beauty even in destruction.

[@prairiewinters]

I climbed Mt. Saint Helens back in 1974 with a fellow surveyor John Smolich. I lived in Spokane in 1980 and was heading with my family to an airshow at Fairchild AFB. We were almost there and it was announced that it had been cancelled because the mountain had erupted. Thought that was kind of silly because of the distances involved but by the time we got back to our place, ash was falling and it was completely dark at about 11 am. Like a lot of people from the PNW, I won't ever forget this experience.

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

We usually complain about glaciers diseappearing, not growing.

[@SkyValleyStuff]

lol the ice isnt getting thicker, the ground is bulging under it.

[@smallfaucet]

Haha, we do don't we? I'm sure this is our fault somehow.

[@plushiie_]

Warmer temperatures doesn't mean less snowfall

[@dylanstein2245]

Not in 2004

[@peterbills4129]

Glaciers have been disappearing for 12,800 years. Nothing new.

[@wendybutler1681]

Thank you to the curious folks who need to know why. They do the hard part and all we have to do is pay attention when they tell us what they found. This was fascinating. I was in Salem, OR when the mountain blew her top. A light coating of ash was on everything outdoors. It was gritty and you had to rinse the cars off--sweeping or brushing it off would scratch terribly. It clung to windows and window screens. Our skies didn't go dark like some places in Washington did. Friends in Yakima said it was like midnight at noon. Seeing the little green shoots coming up, seeing the tracks of wildlife in the deep ash and then spotting the first small herd of elk, rabbit tracks, too--it was so welcome! There was such great speculation that pretty much all wildlife was gone and it would be a long, long time before anything green would be spotted. Mother Nature surprised us and it was such a relief. There were tears of joy in those first signs of life. I still have a tiny vial of ash from the event. Ugly stuff, really. Cinder-y. Medium-dark grey. I hope it stays calm. I've moved closer to it.

[@jaklumen]

I was in Benton City at the time- about 20-30 minutes from the Tri-Cities area, in the Columbia Basin region (I have lived in Kennewick since 1984). It was like a hazy midnight in the morning, too. There was ash on the yellow Opal my father had at the time. We went to church and then everyone decided to return home. That I do remember very distinctly, despite not quite being 6 years old at the time.

[@michaeltipton5500]

I still remember before Mt St. Helens erupted. It looked a lot like Mt Fuji in Japan. Easy to remember the date of eruption. Happened on my Birthday.

[@babydriver8134]

Well Happy Birthday! Did you remember to thank God? I saw and recorded the meteor Thursday night in North Idaho. Glory to God!

[@eghty8fox780]

@@babydriver8134 don't bring your beliefs into this.

[@eghty8fox780]

@Jigov well if that's what you choose to believe.

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

Thank you, that WILL make it easier to remember the date!

[@shelbyseelbach9568]

@Jigov you are cracking me up with this shit, some of the best trolling I've ever read.

[@domif.b.7657]

This brought me back to 1995, my first trip flying across the pond to the US. I so fell in love with the Cascades and have come back to visit many times since. The views of mount Rainier from Seattle though are still my favorite ❤️. Is mount St Helen's creating some sort of micro-climate ? The growing glacier reminds me of the Teide volcano in the Canary Islands, where the ice never melts totally while you can plant and harvest bananas and mangos just around the corner. Fascinating!

[@OneNationUnderGod.]

@Tony Samson it's a joke, I've heard the term "across the pond" thousands of times. It's always been mentioned when traveling across the Atlantic for me, so this is a first when talking about crossing the Pacific.

[@shannonrhoads7099]

@@OneNationUnderGod. Slightly bigger pond. :)

[@steveblanmag7410]

Mt Hood as seen from Portland is so much more handsome a mountain. Mt Rainier looks like a blob of rocky road ice cream that somebody dropped on the ground and it's losing its shape melting in the sunlight.

[@romeo1550]

@@steveblanmag7410 very true. I grew up in Vancouver Washington and loved the look of that big mountain when driving across the 205 bridge or driving east up highway 14 or highway 26 to go snowboarding. However, nothing is more daunting or imposing than Mt Rainier. A truly magnificent mountain to behold. Only Mt Shasta in northern California comes close to it's shear size...But Mt Hood is elegant and looks great.

[@domif.b.7657]

@@OneNationUnderGod. thank you 🙏. I travelled across the Atlantic but heard that term from a friend who's a pilot in the US.

[@mitseraffej5812]

The 19 tourists and 2 guides that lost their lives last December during an eruption (and latter on in hospital) of White Island, NZ, is a good example why you shouldn’t go walking in a volcanic crater.

[@twistsnkicks]

@X X Our ancestors took strategic risks to get us to this point - they weren't careless. The risks they took had an important end goal, which was survival. Nowadays, we have too many bored idiots with tons of money in their hands wanting to show off on Instagram and Facebook.

[@Slowmodem1]

@@twistsnkicks Very well put.

[@carasmussen27]

your an idiot. The crater is off limits from tourist these are SCIENTIST and this reporter.

[@egregiousfilmin4842]

As someone who grew up in the plains, the size of even just the volcanic crater is almost unfathomable. I'm trying to imagine how many city blocks this area would cover lol definitely a lot..

[@rdgurule]

To help explain this a bit more. The entire city limits of Portland Oregon can fit inside Mt St. Helens. I’m rather fortunate. I live just south of Mt St Helens. Depending on my elevation or direction I can see Mt St Helens, Mt Hood to the east. The 3 Sisters in further south into Oregon. Mt Adams in central Wa.

[@emrek99205]

Thinking of the land mass in terms of blocks is small scale. Think in terms of citiies.

[@badpiggies988]

Several Seattles would fit inside its crater (and that city covers a large area these days)

[@pinkpyjamas-ey6rw]

@@rdgurule Man are you in a danger zone!

[@the6ig6adwolf]

I was under the impression that a hard hat would protect me from VW size boulder, glad I watched this video.

[@TheJazzyfuductshizzl]

The more you know, eh?

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

I favour one of those Wile E. Coyote umbrellas.

[@influenza3736]

I don’t know, it worked for me.

[@alexanderfretheim5720]

Nah... only a Peugeot-sized boulder...

[@ainamal]

Ah damn...checked that one off the list.

[@mchapman132]

It’s building up once again. It’s been 40 years. I recall that event. We were on the East coast, and the days following, the sky was eerily overcast with a dull, haze. Mother Nature is all powerful.

[@markberryhill2715]

Same story here in S.C. Yellow sky and gloomy going to high school a few days after the event. We would call it Apocalyptic today.

[@dudenoway1267]

and the amount of pollution and green house gases ejected in to the atmosphere in the first few minutes puts man to shame. and she can do that several times a year when she really gets going.

[@alexanderfretheim5720]

It did most of its rebuilding in the first few years after the 1980 eruption. The 2004-2008 ash eruptions probably helped a little too. It's still along way from the big beautiful dome it had in 1979 though.

[@mchapman132]

@@alexanderfretheim5720 -that’s good to hear.

[@brianpaulson6534]

I was living in Auburn wa. When it blew up. Sat on my back deck and watched the clouds of ash go higher and higher talk about scary shit.

[@NorthernChev]

“Mt. Rainer’s glaciers are visible from almost everywhere“. I am unable to see them from my house in Texas.

[@oxygen7445]

Can confirm they are not visible from New Zealand

[@dantaylor9132]

Can’t see them from London, maybe next week.

[@geraldfrost4710]

From Florida? Not without video enhancement. aka, can't see it from my house!

[@NekoDae]

@@oxygen7445 Seconded, though to be honest I've never really looked either?

[@lewis2553]

I can see them fine on my smartphone here in south Texas.

[@louisejohnson6057]

I was living in Victoria BC when Mt Saint Helen's blew in the '80's. The townhouse we were living in were built in adjoined rows of 6 each. I heard a series of loud, deep, booms, and thought someone at the other end of our row, was slamming their front door several times. The next day I took the ash out of our BBQ and sprinkled it over our teeny tiny backyard, then I called my mum down and she was amazed! There was a lot of news about the eruption, and one of the reports was of ash coming back down. That's a fun memory for me.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

Very interesting piece from 2004. At the time, the inner lava dome was from small eruptions between 1980-1986. Soon after this documentary was made, a four year eruptive period began forming another higher lava dome behind the 80s lava dome back up near the south rim. Crazy cool to see in real time the mountain rebuilding itself.

[@theCosmicQueen]

wierd how it's hot underneath but still forming a frozen glacier.

[@deadfreightwest5956]

"It was 40 years ago today..." I remember the eruption. I was living in Brown's Point, Tacoma. We could walk down the street to the bluff overlooking the Tide Flats and port, and in the direction of the then under-construction Tacoma Dome, there was this stupendous grey mushroom cloud. It seems hard to fathom, but eastern WA had days with no sunlight, and so much ash the freeways had to be bulldozed. Today you'd never know it happened. Nature is insistent on her persistence.

[@lyndadale6255]

Dead Freight West I remember that, it was a year without a summer. No doubt about it, Mother Nature is The Boss.

[@nerblebun]

@Dead Freight West: Approx 2 days after Mt. Saint Helens eruption, ash began falling in my home town 680 miles to the south. Ash fell like snow for almost two weeks. Auto Parts stores ran out of air filters. I've read the initial blast moved more cubic yards of earth & stone in a couple of seconds than the amount of concrete ever poured in the U.S.

[@loganthesaint]

Yellowstone is next.

[@nerblebun]

@@loganthesaint: Not if, but when the super-volcano underneath Yellowstone's 1,500 sq. mi. caldera erupts, it will make Mt. Saint Helens seem like a party popper. It has the potential to inflict global devastation. Yellowstone is actually overdue for am eruption, and just last month USGS recorded 134 earthquakes, including a swarm of 20 tremors.

[@thecloneguyz]

Auburn Washington Car was covered in ash

[@MarquitaHerald]

I've hiked through Mt. Haleakala on Maui several times and even explored some of the lava tubes - while that volcano is dormant, the landscape is like being in another world and gives you tremendous respect for the power of nature.

[@seaoftranquility7228]

Absolutely amazing drive up. Starting in a tropical climate and moving up through the clouds.

[@janetpattison8474]

Very cool. Is that the area where people can get lost in the lava fields?

[@jimjoe9945]

The power of nature......would that be God?

[@totalghoul00]

did that too. lived in Hawaii for a bit, lots to that island than more tourists see. beautiful state.

[@llkg9]

"Haleakalā." No "Mt" in the name. ☺ It really is like another world. Or like being transported back to the beginning of time.

[@ToniGlick]

I've been to Mt. St. Helen's a couple times, in 2001 and 2015. It's fascinating. The surrounding area got greener over the years.

[@billtoal7740]

Any Bigfoot serious question

[@Jamestele1]

It is absolutely beautiful: powerful and destructive, but beautiful.

[@badpiggies988]

You will find the most ironic things there, like a bulldozer buried in the lahar deposit and 40-year old cedar and fir trees growing through logging trucks

[@jebes909090]

"but we were warned." "bro its totally knarlly up there, like whoooosh and radical bro.."

[@truthhurts9241]

If I were near enough to be in the "kill area" of it. I would make sure I could damned well see it all, like the weird radio bloke in the film "2012" Ditto any Meteorite strike. If you're gonna die, make sure you get the most out of it, it's something you'll only see once in your lifetime. Be a terrible shame to miss it don't you think?

[@slevinkalevera1260]

I have Mason jars full of ash from the Mt. ST Hellens eruption. I grew up in St. Marie's Idaho. Ash hit the Jetstream and covered St. Marie's with 8 -10 in of ash. Today you can dig down in the soil and find a compressed layer of ash. Pray it never happens again.

[@Somethingisntright64]

We Geologist call that a “Marker bed”.

[@alexanderfretheim5720]

It probably won't erupt exactly like that for at least a century. However, the lahar concern is real and wouldn't even necessarily need an actual eruption to trigger it - a large steam explosion, major fumarole activity, or a shift in the hot springs would probably be enough to do it. You don't have to worry about that in Idaho though. Really only the folks in Longview, WA really need to worry about the lahar at this point.

[@davidsandall]

Yep, I was raised in Cataldo. I was 10 and remember the ash, it was a legitimate reason to wear a bandana and go out and play.

[@evantibbott7475]

I was working on the Nez Perce prairie southeast of Lewiston, Idaho when the volcano went off that quiet clear morning. We received about a half inch of ash. We were issued masks and advised not to wash cars because of the fine silica in the ash. The ash would rise from the grass for weeks afterward until rain or snow would pack it down. I was interested in the atmospheric refraction of sound, which produced a 'zone of silence' for about 60 km.around the explosion, outside of which residents heard sounds like gunfire. Reports of dogs being aware of the explosion minutes before bring audible to humans.as distant as Vancouver and in Victoria, Canada. Even inside a TV station that was broadcasting. Eerie, but marvelous when you take time to comprehend such forces. Windows rattled and window shades moved as far as 160 km. away.

[@wonkachocolates6133]

Lived in Trout Lake, Washington in the early 1980's and watched Mt. St. Helen's blow from our front picture window. If only computers were the norm as they are today, we could've LIVE STREAMED the event. Either way, the birds in the area left about a week before the eruption and at you could hear the "clacking" of basalt rock...like when you bang two stones together.

[@chrisfoxwell4128]

What was the interval and intensity of the clacking?

[@whyputaname]

Wow, that must have been awesome to watch but dangerous to be in.. Good that you made out..

[@user-jy9gk5kq6z]

I remember it like yesterday it was the greatest event I've ever seen in my life I still have volcanic ash I collected from my driveway as kid I grew up in Troutdale Oregon right across the river from you. I was in 2nd grade my class was going back gym room and we all stopped on the playground to watch it erupt for the first time

[@Impactjunky]

Glacier in a volcano? Global warming must have caused this

[@JP-dz7zu]

Those birds were real a-holes for not letting you know why they were leaving.

[@dgdiyer1191]

Lived in Vancouver WA in the early '60's. As kids we would ride our bikes up to Mill Plain Ave and then being over the ridge we could see Mt. St. Helens. It was a perfectly symmetrical rounded snowcapped mountain at the time.

[@daytinkhloe]

I was 9 years old living in Vancouver. So exciting to watch all the mini eruptions and steam. My dad flew over the mountain on the morning of the eruption. Memories...

[@harleyhawk7959]

my mom and dad use to go too spirit lake often during the summer. I was a teen at the time, I walked to the top of St.Helens one day we were there. it was a perfect dome back then with a constant slope, made it a nice hike. back in the late 60's

[@Frank-mu5yz]

I can still recall eruption.. Was living in Medford Oregan.. Volcanic ash sourounding our property.

[@jimf1964]

The scale of this is hard to imagine. I know from experience in the Backcountry that even when you're there it's sometimes hard to fathom.

[@whatsupwithstuff9217]

yea man like how does a whole mountain just go away in a moment. forces that are beyond us and bigger than we could ever think possible

[@jimf1964]

Brian Landers Yes, I'm well aware of what happened. I have a sister and cousin that live out that way, plus I grew up in N America and was alive to see this, it I never got to actually go there. Not too far away, but never actually saw it.

[@mirozen_]

It was a sight to see even from miles away. I climbed up and watched it from the roof of our garage. Definitely not something you'd forget.

[@muninrob]

I lived in Portland when it happened & got to go on a field trip to the site ~ 3 years after the eruption, and even seeing the damage in person, the brain just refuses to accept the true scale of it. Because the field of downed trees was so vast & so thickly covered the brain tries to turn the trees into sticks & twigs instead of spruce that were 20 - 30 feet across and hundreds of feet tall.

[@jimf1964]

Robert Lockard Yes, exactly. That what I was thinking when I said it must be hard to comprehend even in person. Obviously video can never do it justice, but I've been in massive forested valleys, or mountain sides and you see trees that you almost have to force you're brain to recognize as giant trees to get the scale, and that was what I was thinking about watching this. Like when they should "tiny" rocks rolling down a hillside that were as big as cars, or trees in the distance that looked like nothing. I'd love the chance to see it, but I never will unfortunately.

[@snakepliskin23]

Fortunately enough on a nice day I’m able to see Mt St Helens and Mt Hood pretty much out my backyard

[@zacc2473]

On a clear day i’m able to see Hood, St. helens, Adams and Jefferson!

[@hypothetical300]

Same!

[@christophernoia5197]

Not from my backyard, but’s there are a lot of great views in Portland.

[@PosN54]

Same here !

[@sesameoil0009]

Lucky, all i can see are fricking mountains lol

[@norml.hugh-mann]

45 years ago Mt St Helens was an "inactive" volcano too

[@bouteilledeau1463]

@@Krisesakes Well, that's part of "learning". Volcanology is still a new science.

[@hamzazouari999]

@@Krisesakes more than you and they know the limits of their knowledge you obviously dont.

[@dwjoseph59]

The cascade mountain range of the united states & canada doesn't mess around. I'd have to make sure that my life insurance is paid & current before messing with that mountain range.

[@catherinegoodrich7241]

I agree. Poor choice in wording that Mt. Rainer is an inactive volcano. It's very deadly and can easily go off just like mt st Helens did with more force.

[@midesti]

"Inactive" is the same thing as "dormant," meaning it can still erupt. The word you're probably looking for is "extinct." I don't know the history, but I seriously doubt geologists were calling it "extinct."

[@Jaggerbush]

I was 8 when it blew up. I was obsessed with it as a kid. I would draw the mountain religiously. Recently - in the past 10 years - I went to MSH. Once on Feb 25th and I couldn't see anything. The overlook was closed. Never having been there before I had no idea where I was on the mountain and I couldn't tell where the crater was. I returned on July 4 and was able to go to get overlook this time. It was breathtaking. Even at 50 miles away it was impressive.

[@aaronlindley2458]

When did Volkswagen become a scientific standard for measuring boulders. I wonder what model volkswagen. :)

[@miningflame9847]

Scientists are probably American lol

[@faisalmemon285]

It is the Volkswagen Stationwagon. How can you ask such a dumb question?

[@rossrhodes1963]

Nope it’s the beetle. That’s the one used world wide as the standard measurement.

[@pfossful]

Jetta.

[@Sp00kq]

Americans use anything but the metric system lol

[@Valdarious]

I remember trips as a kid up on the top of Helen's and swimming in the lake. I also remember when it blew and I still have some ash we scooped off of our car.

[@blackholeentry3489]

I was born in Portland and lived in the surrounding area until I was 15 when my folks moved to the Montery Bay area of central CA. When St Helens started acting up, I drove near there and witnessed it puffing some steam. After it blew, I rode 1000 miles on my motorcycle, scooped a gallon of ash (it was everywhere) and took it back home. I looked at it for years and finally spread it all over my garden area. Don't know if it did or didn't have any effect, but it was symbolic....Mt St Helen's ash in my California tomato patch.

[@oneaburns]

The mountain has yet to puff a cloud of steam that spells out “black lives matter”, therefore, the mountain is racist. Mountain silence is violence.

[@thatgirlwhousedtohavereall5549]

David Miorgan Just because someone is interested in gaming doesn’t mean they’re a kid. My brother is 47 & still enjoys games. He has a nice home & his own business. Don’t be so judgmental.

[@Valdarious]

@David Miorgan dude, I am 49.

[@21coute]

@David Miorgan Maybe go back to school and gain some reading comprehension skills? I don't know much about this mountain but he said he remembers going to the top and swimming in the lake. That may or MAY NOT suggest that the lake is on the top of the mountain but "and" does not definitively mean he did those things immediately in order or even sequentially in order, just that he did both. He could have either swam in the lake after coming down or swam in the lake before going up or even did those things in separate trips. All his sentence says for certain is that he did those two things sometime during his trips as a child. Also, maybe you should make sure you have more than a grade-school kid's level of grammar if you're going to call someone else a kid. It's *you're a pathological liar, not your.

[@mikemichaelmusic09]

Go straight to the Comments Section and see what The Experts have to say about this video.

[@wandastokley1871]

LoL! I am no expert, but you could see it growing in the crater when you flew by it 8 years ago. Steaming and such, it looks ominous in person.

[@odisy64]

@T C L strange how people who push "global warming" tend to have interest in physical science and have higher education levels than those who deny it.

[@thestormchasingconservativ6999]

LMFAOOOOO 😂😂😂😂💀💀💀⚰

[@clgdswr]

I was playing with a litter of puppies outside at 8:30ish may 18 1980, i heard what i thought were people hitting my house with 2x4's i turned 50 this year and will never forget that sound, my 44 year old brother was one month old, had to share a memory

[@nfrench2100]

I’ll never understand the downvotes on videos like this 🤷‍♂️

[@jubelet]

I went there in 2010. It was without a doubt the most awe-inspiring sight I've ever witnessed. I can only imagine what the Toutle River Valley looked like before the eruption.

[@karellezala4485]

It was a beautiful haven ... I had friends from Longview and we used to party on the Toutle all the time, and take pieces of visqueen and hike up and go sliding on the snow of the mountain, then hang around the campfire at the Spirit Lake cabin all night ...

[@jubelet]

@@karellezala4485 Thank you for replying! What was the Toutle valley like before 1980? It's all flat now, but I can imagine it sloping all the way down to the riverbed at the bottom of the valley.

[@henryzabel1746]

Very informative , thanks . My friend was one of the first search dog handlers to enter the zone . He was a Vietnam vet and said it was the scariest place he had ever been . Some friends and I took a helicopter ride inside the crater in 86' and I shot video of the whole ride . Spirit Lake just blew our minds .

[@vitaly6312]

The SNES Man same! I’d love to see it. There are many companies that’ll convert a tape to a digital video!

[@garyoconnordbaairrepair7775]

Mount St. Helens erupted on my cousin's 24th birthday in 1980.

[@salgoudnedrac5489]

I remember when St Helens was steaming when I was a kid, looking at it every day for years in awe & how amazing a sight it must have been to see the actual eruption & mom telling me she saw it happen on a date with my dad at Rocky Butte In Portland OR the pics they took are wonderful & terrifying even from nearly 50 miles away. I still live within sight of St Helens Mt Hood & Mt Rainier our little corner of America is beautiful I couldn't imagine living anywhere else.

[@jgrahamiii7749]

I remember the day it erupted. I was spraying our apple orchard and so could not hear the explosion above the machine noise. I could see a large black cloud rising above Mt. Adams which obscures our vision of St Helens. Even with all the news about it becoming active, I thought "that is a funny place for a thunderstorm to come from.." There was lightening in the cloud and it was higher than any thunderhead I had ever seen. Thirty minutes later it was like a curtain being pulled over the sky and it was dark and gritty and smelled like the inside of an old fireplace. That summer's temperature never rose above 90 degrees, whereas it frequently is above 100 for several days. Every time the wind came up (which it does almost daily in the Yakima Valley) there was gray dust in the air. Despite all that, the growing season was one of the best we have ever seen because of the cheap phosphate fertilizer we got for free... I live down wind from St Helens, Mt Adams and Mt Rainier. There is another peak much lesser known also that Is dangerous. Glacier Peak lies between Rainier and Mt Baker and is considered to be as dangerous as St Helens. For those whose comments say St Helens is dormant again, there is a good reason why the Yakama natives call her the "angry little sister" in their legends.

[@cameronf3343]

“Originally broadcast in 2004” I wonder if it’s still happening or not

[@mguzman011]

There were some minor eruptions from 2004-2008, but nothing really since then.

[@3therspark63]

thats why they still have Dell CRTs and floppy drive! lol I was wondering

[@Useaname]

UFO lands at 5.30

[@garyoakham9723]

No. The ice is gone from global warming

[@προδρομοςμου]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKSWZXWqrJuBndk Yes it is....

[@NeoRipshaft]

This is definitely the best post-eruption footage I've seen of the area - really awe-inspiring to see all that cavernous space that used to be occupied by mountain.

[@scallie6462]

Think about how long it takes man to move that much earth. And then think of how quickly the earth moved Mt St Helens..

[@KF7MGT]

Agreed, amazing documentation and footage. Some of those angles and shots from deep within almost remind me of the Himalayan mountain region even though Helens is rather low elevation in comparison

[@louisesumrell6331]

I remember seeing it on TV, in 1980...

[@ReformedOrderPart2]

I went a few years back in my 2nd trip EVER to St. Helens. I was OBSESSED with that volcano as a kid. I'll tell anyone this, that mountain is HUGE & cameras don't do it justice. It's just so massive & you feel so vulnerable because of it's sheer size & potential power. There's no experience like it in nature.

[@brandonsavitski]

I always wanted to see Mount St. Helens.

[@ReformedOrderPart2]

@@brandonsavitski : I've been there twice, once as a kid & then again as an adult. The landscape is showing signs of a slight recovery but it will by no means EVER be what it was anytime soon. We're talking at least another hundred years or longer. It's beautiful, but a trip at the same time.

[@brucevaldes2459]

@@ReformedOrderPart2 in

[@ReformedOrderPart2]

@@brucevaldes2459 : In, what? (0.o)

[@jaredgray7872]

I love seeing all this info on Mount Saint Helens! Fascinating

[@BlakeBlackstone]

Glacier melts - OH NO WE ARE IN TROUBLE Glacier grows - OH NO WE ARE IN TROUBLE

[@HubertofLiege]

Blake Blackstone got to keep everyone afraid or they don’t get paid

[@davidcresse5647]

You should listen to Jim gaffigan telling his assistant that the Male seahorse has the babies...and you're fired!! Similar ridiculous premise.

[@sipu842]

Exactly!

[@donlove3741]

Tun tun ahhhhhh

[@Max_R_MaMint]

@@procrastinatingpuma Dont build whole towns on old debris flow paths again. its almost like there is context as to why its a dumb thing to do. I mean, its not like the landscape itself shows you what happens over and over again. But no - lets build towns in the pathways and call the glacier "dangerous". Ffs.

[@theskullsculler7991]

I heard that blast from 250 miles away. Remember it like it was yesterday.

[@haroldburrows4770]

I wouldn't get in those ice caves for love nor money

[@wyllowraven]

It's hard to believe but in around 1973 I hiked up to some caves on Mt. St. Helens. They were called the Ape Caves. I was 13 or 14 years old at the time and we were staying at the Girl Scout camp on Spirit Lake, where we went every summer for a number of years. It was the most beautiful place. It all got blown to pieces in 1980.

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

Yup.

[@wtglb]

Sheila Brushes Ape Caves, I wonder if it got the name from the supposed Sasquatches in the area?

[@CriticoolHit]

@@matthewlawton9241 Obviously... Don't be absurd.... You say this like there is even one person on the planet that wouldn't.

[@Moose803]

@@wyllowraven where you there when it blew?

[@birdman4854]

I live in Spokane and was a kid when this volcano erupted and most of the ash blew over the Eastern Washington and its amazing how heavy ash is. We had to use snow shovels to clear our driveways and roofs caved in. School was closed for awhile which we all liked being kids.

[@sandracloke6268]

As a young child I had lived in Spokane in the early 1950's. No one ever made mention of a volcano not too far off.

[@jaklumen]

I lived for four months in Spokane, around 1975 or so, with my grandparents. I returned many summers to their place on the South Hill, but I'm pretty sure it was after the eruption. Grandpa was a soil scientist, so he did some surveys around St. Helens, and I remember him showing the family slides of the peak, a little before the eruption happened. I was living in Benton City at the time, about 3 hours south. Yes, the ash covered most of the WA-E skies, or so I have been told.

[@mamadoom9724]

When my family moved to my grandparents property in yacolt in 1991 we had a big unused pool on the property that had a bunch of mt. St. Helens ash in it.

[@birdman4854]

@@mamadoom9724 you can sell that ash in viles and make a lot of money now.

[@birdman4854]

@@jaklumen ya it did hit Tri-Cities too.

[@NightShadow-xr1bc]

Mount St. Helens: starts flexing Yellowstone: ok thats it, hold my magma!

[@CorgiDaddy2]

Kilauea is having a moment.

[@annychest718]

Lol I would definitely move

[@kennithbrown9596]

Yellowstone what's that kilauea still going

[@influenza3736]

-Mount Mazama- Crater Lake: That’s cute

[@bettysteele4810]

D@@CorgiDaddy2

[@theevanthompson]

Thank you for sharing this. Fascinating to see what it looks like more recently in history.

[@KratosAurionPlays]

Oh this was originally in 2004 I was wondering why the time frames they were using seemed so weird lol

[@SAiLORmARs08]

Tales of Symphonia represent!

[@SayornSous]

Lloyd Irving ftw

[@spankthemonkey3437]

Kratos Aurion Plays it's before global warming and glacier growth

[@PlatinumEagleStudios]

Okay boomer

[@blainearrieta5462]

Hell yeah people know about tales of symphonia

[@spacedoutcowboy8621]

It struck me that volcanoes are just pimples on the face of the earth....

[@noonehere4332]

spacedoutcowboy And mountains are wrinkles

[@charlesfitzgerald9461]

That's one way to look at it .

[@atlantic2233]

Ugh excuse me while I go bleach my eyes

[@hackman88]

what does that make the Mariana Trench?

[@kittensausage5901]

Rob's Noize HA!

[@dylanjohnson7091]

The guy at like 1:16 “We are right in the BLAAAAAAAST”

[@RANDOMstuffanimation]

U an Annus?

[@judahtribe7]

🤣🤣🤣

[@judahtribe7]

🤣🤣🤣

[@judahtribe7]

Emphasis on blast

[@dylanjohnson7091]

RANDOMstuff animation yes

[@coyotej4895]

Back some years ago, before the 2nd set of eruptions you could walk into the creator. Many did and me and some friends drove up there to see it. The most epic moment of my life was putting my gloved hand on that lava dome and feeling the heartbeat of the Earth. It Was Awe Inspiring to feel the sheer power of creation rumbling beneath my touch.

[@dereklaing2929]

Geologists - "Takes millions and billions of years to make mountains and glaciers and canyons" Mt. St. Helen's - "says who numb-nuts?"

[@cynthiaayers7696]

I hear you. St Helen says, hold my beer.

[@Gabriel_Moline]

Derek Laing What geologists are you quoting?

[@rogueascendant6611]

I think this experts are now getting mistakes over their study.

[@Skrinklewink]

@@Gabriel_Moline , it's just a broad stroke for a joke. Don't take it too seriously.

[@yodieyuh]

Stupid attempt at a joke.

[@sophierobinson2738]

Wish I could have heard what the professor said about the rock he was holding.

[@Dudemon-1]

That would be giving information, not just having the filmmakers hear their own voice pontificate.

[@Dialysisforever]

" I am going to take this home and put it on my coffee table."

[@kbkman7742]

"This is my pet rock, Bill"

[@douglasbrannon6525]

He probably said , looks like a rock.

[@Dialysisforever]

@@douglasbrannon6525 Nice. That reminds me of the joke, "What did the farmer say when he could not find his tractor?".

[@DK-gy7ll]

This appears to have been filmed in 2003. Little did those scientists know that the very next year it would erupt again.

[@jwenting]

yeah, the ridge isn't there yet that now extends out from the dome. And they were talking about all the glaciers melting from "global warming" which has long been disproven (some are melting, most are either stagnant or growing).

[@MikeWalls7829]

@@jwenting I look forward to a time where people say, "yeah back then people were promoting global warming but it was a financial scam which we now have laws to protect against"

[@alcoholya]

pretty sure this is not a consensus opinion among glaciologists. wgms.ch/latest-glacier-mass-balance-data/

[@mrrobotnica]

CaptainDuckman Not sure if serious.

[@Leyrann]

@@mrrobotnica It's not as clear-cut as he implies, but there are definite indicators in that direction. I do know for certain that the ice cap on Antarctica is growing.

[@bobboberson2024]

Refreshing to hear a human narrate a KZbin post. And a good one too. This is one fascinating spot on earth.

[@KennyJacobs]

It's always refreshing to see that there are people doing work they truly enjoy and have found a way to get compensated for it.

[@beardedroofer]

I was 11yrs old when Mt St Helens blew. Lived in Spokane, Wa at the time, had about a foot of ash fall on everything. It was incredibly hard to get rid of because ash doesn't dissolve. My little brother and I used to make mini volcanoes out of it and blow 'em up with firecrackers. The good ol' days.

[@StrainXv]

Love how the Washington mountain skyline is dominated by Strato Volcanos.

[@ginnrollins211]

It's that Ring of Fire, baby.

[@sugarfree6959]

Rip to me

[@ninablackman8752]

It's the edge of a tectonic plate. Follow the plate boundary and you will see the ring of volcanos. That's why it's called the ring of fire.

[@Pablo-cp9nc]

I saw an intense orange display in the skies of northern Maine a few years back. It was spectacular; the sky was a bed of embers simmering in a fire. I have not seen anything like it since.

[@user-kz8zr4si3i]

You don't have to tell me twice not to go to a place even the plants know not to go 😂

[@davidk7544]

The plants will increasingly love that regolith.

[@barbaracomer7228]

Love the Cascades.

[@wolfgangrecordings]

"this is not a scene residents want to see repeated" - erm, what exactly is anyone supposed to do other than leave the area? if you live in the shadow of a stratavolcano i think you should probably accept that it might erupt and compromise your property. god i hate the anthropocentric attitude, it's like moving to the everglades then complaining about the alligators that were there millions of years before you

[@AdityaKKannan]

I absoluletly agree.

[@PixelatedFaerie]

I was born in Seattle. It erupted 9 years before I was born. We don't live here worrying about it everyday. The chance of it happening again in my lifetime is slim.

[@alexanderfretheim5720]

Furthermore, what exactly is left in the Toutle River Valley now? Basically all logging areas of WA have been gradually abandoning and that region is far from an exception. Last time around it was a humanitarian disaster. This time around it will be Pay-Per-View with a warmup act of Monster trucks!

[@carmarxs22thegod51]

@@alexanderfretheim5720 well I live here and there’s... uhh... fishing... very bad fishing 😂 and logging roads to go mudding and 4 wheeling

[@SuperSaltydog77]

They were being left out of the "victim" craze that is sweeping the nation. Now they are victims of "volcanic intrusion"

[@mikecrow8294]

My mother all my uncles and aunts grew up with Harry Truman none of us believed it was going to blow RIP Harry.

[@johnh1001]

There are also a few more potential bombs that could possible erupt in North America that could cause us all the same , worse or very adverse weather conditions post eruption just like St Helen's .

[@imjams_projects]

This was a fascinating and fantastic segment. I’ve always wondered what it would be like so close to the surface of the crater. Thank you for showing us.

[@karenbartlett1307]

Charlie reminds me of my old Geology instructor-taking us on field trips and laughing at us as he made us scale cliffs, run along their tops (to keep up with him) and crawl over huge boulders down to the beach, where he grilled us on geology stuff while we asked dumb questions. What I learned from that class is that geologists are all small boys -or girls- who like rocks, and they aren't afraid of anything!

[@jaklumen]

My grandfather was a soil scientist, and a very good and late friend, a very old friend of my wife's family, had put in a lot of study on geology. They both had a fair amount to say on the Channeled Scablands and the numerous basalt formations that have been a part of everywhere I've lived in WA-E, since at least 1978, anyways, so most of my life. My friend- his second daughter gave his eulogy, and she did specifically say most people saw boring basalt rocks- and she was right, he could talk for hours just about their geological significance. She was a friend of my wife's- I don't think his daughter ever really knew fully how I liked to match him on droning conversations, because I found it all fascinating- we were both walking encyclopedias comprised of different tomes, and it was a honor to compare notes with him.

[@gjones7547]

"Mount Rainier is a relatively in active Volcano..." Please don't tempt the beast. 🌋

[@larryhinze9314]

Inactive means not active at all.

[@mindyvaughn8217]

This was so exciting to see. It’s almost like being there. Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful treck up Mt. Saint Helens.💖

[@edjahn7063]

Thanks, Mindy. Lots more like this at @OPB here on KZbin and opb.org/fieldguide. This was one story that aired as part of our regular TV series, Oregon Field Guide. We keep the storytelling straightforward here, so you might want to check us out!

[@pstewart5443]

It's just so humbling to see the power of nature to completely modify a landscape that size in a few decades. This is a less active period of volcanos on the Earth. I can't imagine what 100 years of highly active looks like. Probably a dark and cold 100 years.

[@MusicManPotter]

What an awesome video! Just as good as any of the videos about the eruption itself! Thanks for producing this!

[@meanhe8702]

I knew a guy once who stumbled into a boiling geothermal hot mud pool at Mono Lake, California and just about had his feet boiled off, later he nearly lost both of his feet. So the dangers are not only from the volcano itself, but also around it as well.

[@MrSaemichlaus]

This thing should school everyone that mountains aren't just those giant solid things that you can walk all over without worrying. Sometimes they come down, and sometimes they even go up before they come down.

[@wheelinthesky]

I lived in Kennewick Washington. Other known as the Tri-Cities I was working at the local mall and our city went dark with these really weird luminous clouds. Ash came down. I remember driving home and it was slick on the roads like black ice. My dad was building a screened in porch onto our home and was painting it when this started. The whole porch had to be sanded down and redone!!!!!!

[@ivanconivin7985]

Was flying down the Columbia River gorge that morning and noticed the blackest storm ever. I wondered how the weather service missed this one. I got Troutdale FSS on radio for a weather update and they reported it was raining sheets of mud. I asked for clarification and learned the mountain blew. I flew to the west side of st Helen's. What I saw was total chaos, lightning coming out of ash that were cracking the radios, what appeared to be a wall of mud coming down a river taking bridges with it. Logs floating down river

[@tracysmith9936]

It blew up the day I was born: May 18th '80 ~Dawn

[@edhondo4447]

so it's your fault , we were looking for someone to blame , now we have it

[@markberryhill2715]

Cool. I remember it well. A world news event on your birth date. I've had a bunch of them. Got one coming up on 21st.

[@MichelleMCTran]

I was born in May 20 lol

[@jameswalton5733]

*2004* not yet *2010* not yet *2015* _not yet_ *2020* It's showtime!

[@politicallycorrectredskin796]

I think the mountain is on a 57 year cycle, right? 2037 if that's the case.

[@d.george]

Lol pretty much. We still have 4.5 months!

[@sda9995]

Your probably right

[@electricbullshark765]

I love how the video shows the depth and magnitude of the crater, and glacier. Absolutely mind boggling how much of the mountain exploded out!! Millions of tons of rock and earth!! Epic!

[@retiredcolonel6492]

I first visited in 1986 and haven’t been back since 1988. I’m shocked at the changes. But the amazing thing is how quickly the land and wildlife recovered. In 1980 the scientists said the eruption had sterilized the soil and there would not be any vegetation for 100 years or longer. In 1986 , just six years later, there was already a lot of small plants everywhere including some juvenile trees. The area was rich with deer and birds. So the experts, in this case was way, way off. It makes you feel good that Mother Nature can recover so quickly. Kinda makes one wonder about the doom and gloom of climate change predictions.

[@josephrankin6055]

Climate change isnt to difficult to understand if you understand the science behind it and the modeling used to predict the direction its headed it. The climate models are only wrong when emissions differ from what was modeled other than that they are correct. At St Helen's they knew when they 1st set foot in the area that there hypothesis was wrong.

[@Emiliapocalypse]

Huh, I just read another comment here that said the opposite. That no plants have grown back yet except for near the creeks.

[@davem4169]

The Doom and Gloom climate scientist have been regularly wrong so often that people need to focus on where they want to live and get busy adapting and living.... trying to "fix" the climate will only bankrupt humanity and make day to day life for non wealthy people more miserable!

[@downallyourstreets]

The geologists in 1980 kinda wondered too, they are ash on the side of the mountain now. Nothing to wonder about climate change. It’s caused by humans artificially releasing large amounts of CO2 and methane and fucking their grandkids up the ass with a 50 gallon oil drum. Nothing to wonder about if you understand reality and science, and don’t believe political double talk.

[@ToniGlick]

I'd like to make you feel better but the planet's definitely going to heat up 2 degrees, which is going to make it too hot to for people, animals and plants to survive in some places. We're at the start of a worldwide change that takes a lot longer to reset than a volcano.

[@stratman1021]

I still remember sitting in 6th period English and the newspapers coming in and seeing this on the front page.

[@rustyharvey2490]

It looks like My. St Helens is failing that polygraph test

[@ginnrollins211]

You were asked if you have taken any lives in the events of May 18th, 1980. You said no and the lie detector determined that was a lie, over 57 people.

[@onecuet]

I remember the warnings about it erupting. Some people still refused to leave their home to come off the mountain. RIP

[@chellesama8256]

2:28 - And that's how you identify a geologist in the wild.

[@llamalover02]

Can confirm.

[@bthemedia]

My thought too! 😆

[@JanjayTrollface]

Pleasantly surprised by how interesting and informative this piece was, good work and cheers!

[@Dan-vw5jj]

As a kid my family vacationed and camped at the park at Spirit lake at the foot of mt. St.Helens.it was an incredible piece of nature.I remember looking down into the water from a long dock at the boat launch and seeing very large fish,probably suckersand lots of beige colored rocks that would float if you threw them in the water. I remember walking the foot trail to the base of the mountain and going to Harry Truman's resort and my parents would buy hot dogs,buns and such while my sister's and I would check out the souvenirs. I even have black and white snapshots of my family and self riding in h.trumans tour boat with harry at the wheel.if you ever experienced that place you would understand a little better why harry decided to stay.I am 69now and I will always hold the memories of the st.helens vacations close to the heart.has anyone else vacationed there?

[@ZippyThePinhead]

Cool story, thanks for sharing. 👍

[@ullrich]

So you were there before the eruption I take it? Did you ever go back after? I imagine it would be surreal to see the same area before and after. I beileve I went to the vistor's center when I was younger (maybe 1996?). I just remember being in awe of the miles upon miles of flattened trees, laying like so many toothpicks scattered on the ground.

[@corradoparris9679]

Great documentary. It just shows how violent the 1980 eruption was, some of those caves are very scary. 😱