slgwv's photos with the keyword: volcano

Telephoto view from off Washington State Route 540, the Spirit Lake Highway. The large crater from the May 18, 1980 eruption is obvious, but the vegetation has recovered greatly in the nearly 40 years since.

Mt. St. Helens in southwestern Washington state. Nearly 40 years after the eruption of May 18, 1980, there's little obvious evidence of the devastated area. You'd have seen a gray landscape from here a few years after the eruption; now it's all covered with second growth. (Not a big surprise to geologists, because eruptions like St. Helens's are common geologically--and the evidence for them is subtle!) The inset shows a telephoto of the mountain itself. The drainage in the foreground is the Toutle ("tootle") River.

Looking east, with some resting mallards on the shore! I didn't want to disturb them so I have a lot of beach in the foreground. Paulina Lake is the western of the two lakes in Newberry Crater, the caldera in Newberry volcano outside Bend, Oregon. (The eastern lake is, sensibly if unoriginally, named East Lake.) The mountains in the back on the left are the caldera walls--it's a _big_ crater. The skylined mountain on the right is from subsequent eruptions, making up a so-called "resurgent dome" within the caldera itself. The air is actually smoky, not misty, from all the wildfires in Oregon when we were there. The inset shows a slightly different view from off the dock to the right.

As seen from below. Newberry Crater, Oregon.

Newberry Crater, Oregon, south of Bend. The falls are formed by Paulina Creek as it exits Paulina Lake, the western of the two lakes in the caldera. The inset shows a view from below. "Paulina" is locally pronounced with a long "i", btw. Newberry Crater is the large central caldera of Newberry Mountain, an enormous shield volcano, one of the more spectacular examples of volcanic activity in the Bend area. It's protected as a volcanic monument and is well known locally, but is not usually a Destination for tourists!

And Fort Rock Valley beyond; telephoto view looking east from the rim above Hole in the Ground. Oregon, USA. Fort Rock is a tuff ring around another eruptive center, now an Oregon state park. It evidently never actually was a "fort"--it's named from the resemblance.

Centerpiece of the eponymous national park, California, USA. The southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range; it last erupted in 1914. Looking north from a Forest Service road.

One of the central Oregon Cascade stratovolcanoes, dormant for now. From the still snow-covered trail--we didn't try to get to the summit!

Looking west.

Washington state, USA. Looking north. Most years a non-technical route to the summit opens up on the south ridge, and that's how we got here! (Almost 30 years ago, gasp...)