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Re: [OM] More Chinook Pass and the debut of Mt. St. Helens

Subject: Re: [OM] More Chinook Pass and the debut of Mt. St. Helens
From: Wayne Harridge <wayneharridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:42:57 +1000
Thanks for the reference - spent my lunchtime reading it through !

...Wayne


> Chuck Norcutt <> wrote:
> 
> The big eruption was 1980 (but still small compared to some volcanos) 
> Lot of minor burps and belches in the years afterward.
> <http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Publications/MSHPPF/MSH_past_pre
> sent_future.html>
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> 
> Wayne Harridge wrote:
> > Impressive shots and impressive numbers.
> > 
> > How long ago did it erupt ?
> > 
> > ...Wayne
> > 
> > 
> >> Chuck Norcutt <> wrote:
> >>
> >> Photos in the order they were taken.  The first three are Chinook 
> Pass 
> >> on the east side of Mt. Rainier including the one already shown here.
> >>
> >> The last is looking into the caldera of Mt. St. Helens across the 
> valley 
> >>
> >> near the visitor's center.  Had I been standing in that same spot 
> when 
> >> it erupted I'd have not only been dead but probably never found.  The 
> 
> >> pyroclastic flow went down into the valley and then back up the ridge 
> I 
> >> was standing on and bowled right over the top of the ridge at about 
> 300 
> >> mph.  But Google Earth says Mt. St. Helens is about 30 miles away 
> from 
> >> the visitor's center so I'd have had about 6 minutes to make a run 
> for 
> >> it.  :-)
> >>
> >> More Mt. St. Helens to come.  The light was good.
> >> <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Mt%20Rainier/index.htm>
> >>
> >> Chuck Norcutt
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> > ...Wayne
> > 
> > Wayne Harridge
> > 
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...Wayne

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