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Mount Saint Helens 1992
I started my career as a park ranger naturalist while attending WWU during the early 1990s after I’d taken a class in Interpretation. My internship was a summer at Mount Saint Helens National Monument 12 years after the big eruption. After graduation, I returned for four more summers to learn and share the never ending stories of Mt St. Helens, a landscape in amazing recovery. I found it almost unbelievable to
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Spirit Lake
When the mountain blew on May 18, 1980 I was planning a wedding in Illinois. Where were you?
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10 comments:
Very impressive mountain. May 1980 ... I was still very much single
I don't remember hearing about this in 1980. I will have to google.
Spirit Lake looks beautiful.
What a job you must have...
I have relatives in Washington State, so they went through Mt. Saint Helens -- the sent samples of the ash and everybody had great fun playing with it...
Wonderful post - and an great way of life, too!
Cheers, Klaus
That would have been my first Spring in Florida. Been here half my life now.
Truly,
Gaelyn: What a neat post, while I remember the explosion and watching it on TV I have no mental tie to 1980.
hmm...in may 1980 i do believe i would have been returning from graduate school back to home in southern california.
i do remember saint helen's blowing her top...it was quite a news item on the west coast.
WOnderful photo's and what an interesting job to have, stunning landscape
What a great thing to get to do and you must see such beautiful places. Those two shots you shared are breathtaking, I've neve been to that part of the country.
What a wnderful lifestyle being a park ranger and getting to spend your life in the most beautiful surroundings.
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