On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
Good Morning All,
This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.
So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.
You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.
For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.
Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!
For the rest of the year, I’ll be cleaning up old pictures. Feel free to use the form to submit more, but like so much I’m dealing with right now, I feel honor-bound to clean up the old archives and get ready for new content. I didn’t realize I’d missed so much good stuff from mid summer and beyond!
Today, with real, actual pictures! Since we’re now waking up after the longest night, many of today’s selections will be welcome.
Where it was taken: Mount St. Helens
When: July 5, 2017
Commenter: PaulB
Other info: Day 5 of the vacation, this time at Mount St. Helens rather than Rainier.
Helens1: Apparently, this young buck decided to stop in for breakfast at my neighbor’s house across the way.
Helens2: Three deer in the early-morning fog rising from the ground.
Helens3 and 4: Taken on the road to Mount St. Helens.
Helens5: Some of the downstream devastation still visible 30 years later.
Helens6: A diorama in the Visitor’s Center at Johnston Ridge, with a narration and colored lights illustrating the various steps of the eruption.
Helens7: See if you can guess which direction the blast went…. The foreground was stripped bare, with whatever trees and shrubs that were on the ridge mostly taken up by the blast and hurled downwind. The background shows the trees that were toppled in place.
Coldwater Lake is a new lake created by the eruption, just one of many changes to the landscape.
Mountain1 through 4: Taken at various angles and at various zoom settings. The dome in the last picture is actually two domes, the foreground dome created in the years following the first massive eruption; the second dome created in the more sedate 2004 to 2008 steady eruptions. The domes are over 1000 feet high.
Wildflowers: Unlike Rainier, the wildflowers in the Mount St. Helens area are in full bloom.
Have a wonderful day and weekend, everyone! I’ll be posting Monday, but should you not read the site, Merry Christmas to all.
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Mary G
Beautiful, doesn’t seem like so many years can have gone by.
JPL
Although yesterday’s pictures were amazing, I have to admit that these are quite nice.
raven
Nice stuff. I mentioned the other day that I had driven the Cascade Loop a few years back. when we got to the top on HWY 20 we stopped at an overlook and those deer were abundant. We got out and, somehow, I looked my keys in the car. I don’t remember how we got someone to come since this was pre-cell phone but when the auto service showed up the guy said “did the deer scare you that much”!
p.a.
Really great stuff. A classmate from Washington gave me a vial of Mt. St. Helens ash at the time. I remember it as being much finer than the finest beach sand.
raven
@p.a.: I was on a team that built an online geology course and we used a rock kit that included Mt Pinatubo ash!
Mustang Bobby
The ash from Mt. St. Helens traveled east at least as far as Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. I was a camp counselor in Estes Park that summer and we could see the discoloration on the snowfields of the Mummy Range and the Neversummers.
Ben Cisco
Raw power and beauty in the same place. Incredible.
MomSense
Gorgeous photos.
Schlemazel
Really great photos, thanks.
I love foxglove (digitalis) but can’t get it to grow in the spot I have tried planting it. It blooms every other year so it can be tricky to be sure but I have not gotten it to come back a second time. Might be our winters.
debbie
Wow. I would have thought Mt. St. Helens would have greened up more by now.
Waratah
Mt. St. Helens, deer and wild flowers, thank you Paul B.
rikyrah
Those are some beautiful pictures ?
hedgehog mobile
Beautiful. Thank you.
satby
Gorgeous photos! Mt St Helen erupted on my birthday that year! I have a pretty ring made with Helenite that I call my “birthstone”.
Major Major Major Major
Deer butt! Great way to start the day.
Just One More Canuck
Fantastic pictures, Paul. I was there with my family in 20014, and these pictures put me right back there. We went to Windy Ridge the first day we were there – the drive scared the crap out of my wife. We went to Johnston Ridge the next day, but it was quite cloudy so we didn’t get to see too much
Glidwrith
@raven: When I was in 7th grade, I used Mt. St. Helens ash in a science project to grow bush beans. Won 2nd place in statewide competition.
J R in WV
Paul, great photos.
Thanks!
So at that elevation spring is in early July? interesting…
KS in MA
Beautiful!