Mount St. Helen's

We went camping this weekend. The boys have been asking about Volcano's lately so we thought we would take them to one. So this is what we did......

The boys at the entrance of Ape Cave

Climbing up Ape cave

Lizzy and I waiting for the boys at Ape Cave.

We all went on a tour of Ape cave. Of course Ape Cave was made by Lava flow. (would have taken pictures in the cave but it was dark) The boys went farther in Ape Cave then the tour guide. Lizzy and I came back out since she did not like being in the cold, dark cave.

Lizzy and Chris in tube tunnels made by a volcano eruption.

Inside a volcano tube

Henry coming out of a volcano tube

This was probably my favorite thing we did at Mount St. Helen's this time. There were holes (circles) in the ground and some tubes were the volcano lava went around trees and later the trees decomposed. It was really fun.

The Family

Jill and Lizzy climbing down Windy hike. We went to the top of the mountain and could see the East side of Mount St. Helen's and Spirit Lake (we could see Mount St. Helen's from the bottom of the mountian too!!!)

We went on a hike down to Spirit Lake (2miles---not bad). I have always wanted to see what this lake looked like. It was much bigger then I image. It was recorded that it had waves up to 800 feet when the lava came down in 1980.

Yes, I carried Lizzy everywhere on Friday. This is a picture of Mount St. Helen's in the background. We are almost to Spirit Lake.

Spirit Lake is in the background. This is the sunset as we just as we finished the hike. It was so beautiful. The picture doesn't do it justice.

Okay, we saw this tree stump and thought it was running away from something. Chris is running away from the tree stump.

Johnston Ridge Observatory. This is the west side view of Mount St. Helen's

Thomas plowing up on top of a volcano (we all did at the end of the camping trip)!!!!.