Mount Hood in the distance to the south.
Mount Rainier looming large to the north.
The old boarded up visitor center at the Cascade Peaks Wayside.
Mount St. Helens and the other Cascade peaks.
Meta Lake and the Miners’ Car
Meta Lake was once surrounded by tall old growth trees but now is slowly recovering from the massive blast that Mount St. Helens dealt it in 1980.
The blast pattern can be seen in the fallen trees that were violently pushed to the ground by the power of the volcano.
The miner’s car that was destroyed by the blast. Some people who were near the volcano that day in May in 1980 didn’t make it out.
Fire weed growing up through the car.
The carburetor remains intact while the body of the car rusts away.
