Mt St Helen's, August 18-20

We spent the weekend at Mt St Helen's, an active volcano-last erupted in 1980.
We spent one day in the blast zone on the North-West side of the mountain looking at the crater and the un-earth-like landscape. The second day was dedicated to the South side of the mountain which was affected much less by the 1980 eruption, we went into the Ape Cave Lava tube (a lava tube was formed when the surface of a lava flow cooled and hardened, but the molten lava beneath the surface continued to flow about 1900 years ago) and into the Lava Canyon which has incredible waterfalls.