I was stationed at Madigan AMC during 77 and 78 at Ft Lewis...

a group of us use to go out on the weekends in the summer and hike up in the mountains...
one of the easy climbs was Mt St. Helen's....had been up on St Helen's probably half dozen times..

Hard to think two years later, the top 1300 feet on the mountain top blew up and off the rest of the mountain..

Think it was 85 or 86went back out to Washington, went down to St Helen's to see what was still see-able..

Saw lots of vehicles that had been fried to a crisp...on top of all the forest carnage..

I remember that old Character who didn't want to leave.. hard to forget his name, being the same as one of the Presidents...
Sad to think what it must have been like for him, when the mountain killed him...

"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC

“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez