Spirit Lake Memorial Highway to Mount St. Helens
by Connie Fox
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Spirit Lake Memorial Highway to Mount St. Helens
Artist
Connie Fox
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Photograph - Outdoor Color Photo
Description
Curved portion of Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, in the area of Johnston Ridge, winding its way toward the Visitor Center at the active volcano Mount St. Helens, a U.S. National Monument in the state of Washington.
The rugged but peaceful terrain, once resplendent with evergreens, is now covered with wild grass, a couple of new evergreens, and brown, sun-bleached stubs of tall trees lost here more than three decades ago.
As of May 17, 1980, Mount St. Helens, in the Cascade Range in the state of Washington, USA, was considered one of the most perfect mountains in the world. But shaken by an earthquake that registered 5.1 on the Richter scale, she erupted at 8:32 a.m. on a Sunday morning, May 18, 1980.
A huge crater, shown in other pictures in this album, was created by that eruption. The north face of the tall, symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive avalanche of debris--much of it rock that one finds all over the bleak landscape of the blast zone, some imbedded in twisted carcasses of evergreens bleached by the sun. Even our white car, parked in the driveway in Houston, Texas, was covered with a layer of dark ash from Mount St. Helens.
At several observatories and other resources, one can learn far more about this mighty volcanic eruption, as well as the subsequent activity that changed the face of Mount St. Helens, this formerly verdant region, and so many lives forever.
Copyright 2012–23 Connie Steitz Fox
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FEATURED in Your Best Work, Beauty Captured, and the ABC Group, October 2013. Featured on the homepages of Nikon Full Frame Cameras and Just Perfect, June 2020.
A TOP FINISHER in the Paved Mountain Road Photography contest, June 2019.
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October 6th, 2013
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Connie Fox
Thank you, Ella, for the double honor of choosing my image of "Spirit Lake Memorial Highway to Mount St. Helens" for the homepage of Beauty Captured, as well as Your Best Work (last week). I appreciate everything you do to administer both groups so smoothly and effectively.
Connie Fox
Ella, I am so grateful to you for the extent to which you have supported and featured my work. I'm sure everyone appreciates the attention you give to the site. Finding this brand-new image featured this morning really encouraged me, for I didn't even know it was available for viewing. Thanks for the exposure!
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