• Mt St Helens

    Climbing Mt. St. Helens

    We who have spent most of our lives in southwest Washington tend to take Mt. St. Helens for granted. We assume people remember the 1980 eruption and its ash fall, that they have watched [...]

  • Goat Mountain

    The first view of Goat Mountain from the Fossil Creek trail. Mt. St. Helens has an older sister. An older sister who long ago enjoyed a brief career and retired to a quiet neighborhood. [...]

  • Mt. Margaret

    Mt. Margaret's perfect scene, an alpine bowl of snowfields and flowered slopes. There is one place that always draws me back. It is an alpine paradise that asserts itself, pushing to the front of [...]