Wonderful capture with great info.What a force of nature!

A friend of mine lived in Portland at the time. Her house was covered with the fine dust from the eruption. She and her family filled glass jars with that dust and sent them to friends and I still have my jar. It is a very light grey in color and has the consistency of baby powder!!! I like the way your photo shows the vegetation coming back. EVERYTHING is reborn. Nice.

I grew up within view of the mountain and remember its ice cream cone shape. Maybe some day it will return to that beautiful profile.

Spectacular view...

Superb photo, lovely in zoom. xx

I do remember the event, but to my shame I don't think I realised where it was. This is a superb photo, even though you know how I feel about mountains!

Wonderful capture

I can't believe that 36 years have passed, it was on our TV. I think just to remind us that any of ours could do the same. A very beautiful capture of it as it is now.

Yes, I remember - I lived in California at the time, but of course it was a major national story. Never have visited it, though I think about it every time I pass the exit on I5. I like your wide format landscape a lot, Bill...

The ash had to go all the way around the world, but it finally made it here. I got up one morning to see a fine coating on my car. Quite an event! And this is a wonderful shot of the old girl. Hope she doesn't blow her top again anytime soon!!

I remember 85 year old Harry Truman who refused to leave his cabin. "The mountain is a mile away. The mountain ain't gonna hurt me, boy. Despite all the warnings 57 people died when the mountain blew up. I first saw it thirty years later and it still looked raw. This is a fantastic pano and even more striking when zoomed.

I sure remember it. Flying to Seattle the following year the pilot did a figure 8 so all the passengers could see the results. Very impressive. The power of nature holds me in awe. After the eruption there were 3 cold summers in north Europe due to high altitude ash reflecting the sun's rays. Thanks for the beautiful photo and the reminder! Keep up the good work! :-)

I also remember. I lived in one of those 11 states where the ash fell. Thanks for the post.

Superb capture my friend. God bless.

What a beautiful scenery and so well captured :)

Yes, I remember! We heard it blow all the way up in Port Angeles!

Great shot. I like the way the near hill echoes the shape of the mountain. A superb angle!

That's quite a cool shot of St. Helens, Bill! The area to the right still looks pretty stark and almost Martian. I think I see the steam off to the right.

I remember it well, indeed. We had some pretty colorful sunsets for a while after she blew.

What a beautiful scene! I remember the event well; I had just moved to Virginia from Portland with my then-boyfriend, who had grown up in Portland. I knew the outline of the mountain view well from there, and we were both shocked at the news. When I first moved to Portland I had no idea there were volcanoes in the Northwest (I blame the 60's drug culture and poor public education!) I first saw Mt. Hood and wondered what the heck it was. I shudder to think of my naivete now! And driving home from work today I saw a plume coming up from Mt. Ranier, making me wonder if we were getting closer to the eruption they say is likely imminent. It dispersed quickly, which is likely a good thing.

amazing view

Such an odd volcano! She's young and active...and did you know that she makes columns? I just learned that on PBS a while back...apparently lava wells up, like normal, only it's got some kind of geologically-specific chemistry stuff going on in it and so it cools as soon as it hits any sort of surface...but the lava underneath pushes up, and cools...and it just keeps doing that until you get these tall lava-stalks that eventually just topple over...but they don't seem to get that tall, so I guess they're more like lava stumps rather than lava stalks. Anyway, there's some geological trivia for you. As for the shot, it's so rugged and I'd recognize that particular volcanic profile anywhere: I remember seeing the eruption in the news and seeing the way that so much of the mountain just...went kablooey: I think in geological terms, that's what you'd call an "enthusiastic" volcano. I love the shapeliness: all friendly and rounded in the foreground and a little bit more rocky in the back, and then that sky...so many great textures to explore, just as long as the volcano doesn't decide to show her enthusiasm again. This is a great shot.

Yes, I remember when this took place (St Helens), and I remember being stunned at how much of the mountain blew off. It's staggering that that pressure can decimate so much tonnage of mountain. Your pic is very long and beautiful, the zoom brings out everything. The layers of intense to apparition-like is beautiful, once more, with the peak in the background like a gentle ghost, in blue grays. The foreground is all shadow-doused and filled with fleece-like carpeting. And the light feels like late summer light, hazy, lazy and peaceful. (It might have been a different time of year; I'm just commenting on how it feels.) Beautiful work once more.