Day 19
Sun May 20, 2001
Us again !
Today we went to Mt. St. Helen then turned and headed to Porland, Orgon, then east to Pendleton, Oregon.
Well as you can see we turned for home and have
racked up over 3800 miles. We're still about
600 miles from Salt Lake and have got to be there
Wed to fly out.
We better get there a little early cause it's going
to take a day to clean this car out. Three weeks of
junk in it. I think we killed the new car smell in
it.
This was Mt St Helen Fall of 79, before it blew
it's top.
This is 20 Years later. In the foreground is a new
Lake Cold Stream. Spirit Lake in the first picture
was buried under 500 ft of mud. The mud hit it with
such force that the water was sloshed out and moved
the lake 3 miles east where it is today. This was
no little mountain. It was over 8000 ft tall and now
it's highest point is just over 6000
ft.
I never realized that it was in such a remote
area.
The amount of earth blown out of this mountain
would bury all of Seattle to the depth of over 500 ft.
It blew with the force of over 250 atom bombs and
was heard over 700 miles away.
Life is coming back after 20 years.
The stumps still stand snapped off like twigs by
over 700 mph winds.
The new trees are now starting to push through the
over 250 sq miles of blown down timber.
It's like the Grand Canyon. The immensity of the
whole thing is to hard to photograph. . . . . .
Well on to Oregon and making the turn for
home.
Traveling down Rt 5 we can see MT Hood, tallest
mountain in Oregon at 14,250 ft.
One of the things we missed in Oregon was Creater
Lake. It is about 200 miles south of
here. It's at about 8000 ft but the neat thing
about it is that it is the deepest lake in the world at over
6000 ft deep. You can forget an anchor in that
lake.
Traveling along the Columbia River on rt 84 we
passed Multnoman Falls. If there was not a 1000 people
there we might have stopped.
Well we landed here in Pendleton Oregon for the
night.
Prilly & Ralph
Day 20
