Mt Lassen 1915

One of the eruptions of Mt Lassen 100 years ago caught on film. According to a news account on June 1, 1917 from the Red Bluff Daily News, the film was probably made in the latter part of May, 1917 by Justin J Hammer of Red Bluff. It also would appear that iManzanita Lake is in the foreground.

[@annhutcheson5770]

This is some incredible footage. Just WOW. Whoever shot this, and whoever preserved it for over 100 years, God bless them.

[@joel.ha.]

Justin J Hammer of Red Bluff.

[@brucenoregon]

Wow this is the first time I have seen this video, my Grandparents were living in Chico/Corning area at the time and heard stories that seemed almost unbelievable. 52 years after the 1917 eruption I worked in Lassen Park for Curry & Company when there were still cabins and bungalows, a restaurant, and a bar (The Cinder Cone) I spent many a day lounging right next to that little lake, one of my favorite summers of my life.

[@poppawolf26]

I fished there back in the early 90's

[@robertanderson2898]

Now this is old school !!! Wow, priceless piece of film.......

[@kate2create738]

Had no idea this existed, my family has lived in the Shasta County region for over 100 years, there's been news article clippings and postcards my ancestors saved as a momento of what they witnessed. So to see this in film is amazing!

[@Parintachin668]

Wow! I had never seen this before. Thanks for posting this.

[@UltraSaiyan419]

This is incredible. It amazes me how this footage was preserved to one day show the world what this eruption looked like.

[@robertotrotta4695]

It couldn't be better...amazing video!

[@adrianneils2727]

This is very amazing footage for its time.

[@jorgecallico9177]

Funny how in 1915 when movie cameras were in their infancy. Then the batteries running them probably weighed 200 pounds? And yet the reproduction of Lassen's explosion is far more detailed in 1915 than that it was when St Helens blew up some 65 years later. When seven year old kids were already walkin around holding camcorders.. Strange world eh?

[@_prodbynoah_]

Right? I cannot believe there’s no video evidence as good as this of Mt St Helens erupting. I know there’s helicopter footage and that picture series of the moment of eruption but darn I wish there was good footage. Even of the 2004-2008 eruptive period.

[@irwinisidro]

More likely the film cameras then were hand cranked, which explains the jumpy frames per second.

[@katheliz1938]

I always recommend that visitors to California visit Mt Lassen, if only to see examples of vulcanism close up.

[@rebeccam7239]

What was that guy thinking, going up to the crater during an active phase. Yes I love the footage, but that had to be scary.scary to watch 100 years later.

[@loisewilliam9515]

I like the sound of the clip.

[@ShaneNorleansSpencer]

Now that's an eye opener make no mistake. Thank you for sharing.

[@progman965]

Fascinating, great stuff for us earth science geeks.

[@kevinjones4559]

It is a beautiful walk, not too strenuous, to the top. When I reached the top place full of butterflies.

[@vacumecleaner]

imagine the filmer could have seen the videos we have now lol

[@JavierHernandez-qq5wg]

Very nice, rare and unique and footage!

[@lpcookie1]

So glad someone filmed this. A good reminder that mountains aren't just mountains. I bet that gave all the Sasquatches a scare, eh? Yes I'm from Canada 🇨🇦 😄

[@rajbanwait325]

As quoted Scott, "Prove to me there Aren't Bigfeet"

[@jessieligon7826]

It’s amazing that there’s such good footage of this eruption

[@dt-725]

Just moved out of lassen county. It was nice up there.

[@stephenblack4902]

Finally going to see the area in late September.

[@brucewestoby]

Just a mere 100 years ago , a geological blink of the eye. So could happen any time. Alot of volcanos are waking up.... ..

[@Snailbarf]

I like the jump cuts. Was that because he was replacing film stock or for artistic reasons? heh. Anyway, I'm so glad an early film camera made it all the way to this remote area by 1915 so this could be captured.

[@AwesomeDesertTrains]

Snailbarf replacing film

[@guodzillakaiju5683]

I climbed to the top of Mt. Lassen (twice!) but not once did i ever try to descend into the crater...Something about falling though the bottom, i guess...

[@Vicente666fernandez]

Could you imagine the boulders raining down everywhere around you!!

[@tacocruiser4238]

just wait until Shasta erupts....

[@KaiserStormTracking]

@@ValkyrieZiege Mines on Manua Loa

[@baddgeeksquad]

@@KaiserStormTracking well that happened in december

[@KaiserStormTracking]

@@baddgeeksquad lol

[@carsonafarino5999]

Wow this is awesome I wonder how far away he was when he was filming I didn't know that Lassen blew in the last hundred years you mean my elders fibbed to me they told me it was a long long long time ago cuz I used to work in Alturas well Cedarville on the other side of mountain

[@adrianneils2727]

Thank GOD for B.F. Loomis and his box camera. He made that footage all possible. When Lassen finally calmed down, unfortunately, the U.S. was pulled into WWI. 1917

[@YusakuJon3]

Interesting that we have recorded footage of one of the Cascadia volcanos erupting. How often does that happen over there, and what are the predictions of the next cycle activity at any of them? It seems that every year, we get the round of wild predictions of "the Big One" happening at one of these places, but it doesn't pan out. I'd be more concerned about the Yellowstone Caudera cracking open and venting.

[@Snailbarf]

St. Helens is in a rebuilding phase and Mt. Ranier is feared because of Lahar potential to Seattle. Other than that, these boys go relatively tame compared to others around the world. The big ones are in Alaska, which means they're remote and not too big a threat either, in a global sense. Yellowstone will not erupt in our lifetimes, in the way that you fear. No worries.

[@TheHeatherflo]

actually Lassen is the southern volcano in the Cascades

[@AuRowe]

@@TheHeatherflo I saw a sunrise over Lassen from i5 exit "road 27" south of Corning. I have done the Socal to Oregon drive many times but this was sunrise on a clear day. I could actually see how the mountains stairstep down going south into desert after Lassen. It is an amazing sight.

[@KaiserStormTracking]

Yellowstone? Who please all its gonna do is form Rhyolite lava flows or a maar(steam explosion crater) when it erupts again which it did in the last 10K years

[@naturaldisasterguy2687]

Just to be clear, in the past 200 years 5 cascade volcanoes have erupted. In 1843 Mt baker erupted. In 1866 Mt. Hood erupted (some being reported in 1907). In 1894 Mt rainier erupted. In 1914 lassen peak erupted. And in 2008 Mt st helens erupted . A possible eruption at three sisters was reported in literature in july of 1853, but was later discredited. Out of all of these volcanoes only 2 of their eruptions were caught on camera. (mt st helens and lassen peak).

[@neogenmatrix6162]

That is absolutely awesome

[@ElConquistador24]

back when there used to be snowpack in the winter.

[@The_Dudester]

Jordan, may I suggest getting your eyes checked? I just found dozens of very recent pictures of Mt. Lassen with snowpack. Perhaps you're trying to peddle that global warming nonsense. If Mt. Lassen snowpack is your evidence, I would give your paper a big fat F.

[@Drago1995]

@@The_Dudester it used to snow here where i live in this part of Europe every year, after a few years it started to snow less and less and now we badly see it, it hasn't snow here properly in my city since 2017 it's miniscule you people just like to look at famous places where it still snows regularly because the weather conditions are still right, what about the smaller places where lots of snow used to fall and now it badly gets anything or nothing at all. I do believe global warming is being used has an excuse to get money out of us and that makes me angry, but the fact that i can see and feel it for my damn self is another thing. Might not even be man made, our Planet has gone under many climate changes for millions of years the Permian extinction was you guessed cause of global warming.

[@The_Dudester]

@@Drago1995 Back in 2008 Hurricane Ike hit Houston. In the months following Houston had below average rainfall and it got worse. In the summer of 2011 the city experienced not only record heat, but also drought. The next year, the rains returned, but only a little at a time. In 2017 Hurricane Harvey dropped several feet of rain and flooded out the city. Since then, rainfall has returned to normal. Keep in mind that the city was built on a swamp that existed millions of years before man existed. So, these are the variations of nature. You will see your snow fall return to normal. Nature abhors a vacuum.

[@supercell1995]

Sometimes we get droughts, sometimes we get a bunch of snow. Months after Jordan's comment was posted we get one of the best winters in a long time in the Northwest. Sure, 2015 and 2014 were bad years, but looking at how the decade ended wasn't terrible in terms of pack. In my town of Klamath Falls OR we had a storm drop 20" in 1 day in January 2017. Also one of the snowiest Februaries on record in 2019.

[@ElConquistador24]

@@supercell1995 Thank you. When I wrote my comment California was in a terrible drought. I grew up in Red Bluff California. Months after my comment, like you affirmed, snow pack came back and the drought was over.

[@Matterhorny]

Funny how someone caught this eruption on film way back when but 65 years later there's only stills of the St.Helens eruption 😁

[@KaiserStormTracking]

Because anyone near the bulging side was vaporized or crushed by the pyroclastic flow/landslide

[@juliusnepos6013]

@@KaiserStormTracking yeah

[@itrthho]

That was the only camera the photographer of St Helens had with him. Still think he did a great as he clicked away instead of running and abandoning the camera.

[@davidlafleche1142]

Kind of an odd-sounding eruption, isn't it?

[@Snailbarf]

yeah. Now whenever I watch a Buster Keaton movie I duck and cover.

[@marcoherzog3528]

Oh, what a great document of the times. I'm excited . Interesting to see the largest lava dome in the world erupting.

[@GamerChick5567]

I wonder when it will erupt again?

[@randylinyerd4601]

Awesome!

[@chadbuscomb2487]

Woah!

[@ariannahudspeth2801]

This is nice

[@bryanevans8914]

Was that Hat Lake in the foreground?

[@unscpory6364]

Manzanita Lake

[@bryanevans8914]

+UNSC Pory thank you

[@unscpory6364]

Bryan Evans No problem

[@cdawg9149]

That same thing happened to me after eating 6 Costco Tamales

[@user-zu8do2vx7n]

Wow

[@troverinvoke7988]

Good UFO footage too!

[@TysonRed27]

Amazing footage.

[@The_Cali_Dude_88]

And now we se it today less that side!

[@noneofyourbusines9976]

It's NOT 1915 that crater filled with lava on May 14-20,1915. The crater shown is the new crater from the activity of 1917 Northwest of the 1915 crater from what I've seen & read.

[@oskrglz2671]

No que fue el volcán la Malinche....osea cómo

[@orca6110]

looked a bit like St. Helens

[@trevorkremenliff4996]

ORCA it pretty much did the same thing. There’s still a devastated area on the eruption side and you can tell it’s in recovery after 100 years.

[@ShamuAquatics]

This one ain’t shit compared to St Helens. It literally blew its top off

[@sebastiandynamite5860]

Lessen peak ahh yes

[@user-ky7gv5qm9k]

I was fortunate enough to go see Mount St. Helens during the 25th anniversary of the 1980 eruption, but the closest I ever got to Lassen Peak was Crater Lake in southern Oregon. So close and yet so far…

[@robintel]

Is it just me, or the volcanic gas is not mixing with the atmosphere the same way current eruptions do?

[@Altizor]

+Robin Molnar It's just you. The lower, whiter cloud is steam from snow and water in the crater evaporating, mixed with ash. The upper, dark cloud is a mix of ash, dust, gas and small rocks, but you don't really 'see' the Gas part - you see its aftereffects in fragmental ejecta (rocks) like Pumice and Scoria, but it disappates into the atmosphere pretty quickly.

[@iwanaGoFast2010]

There isn’t even any color. Destroy this film.

[@StevesSlideandJazz]

Manzanita lake is way to close during an eruption!

[@sherdaisy8264]

Awesome!