Images

Debris flow within Loowit Channel that originated from Mount St. Helens.

View from the east side of Mount St. Helens dome looking at the uplift of the glacier and south flank of the lava dome.

View from the northeast side of Mount St. Helens lava dome looking at the lava dome (on right) and the uplift of the glacier and south flank of the lava dome (on left).

Step Channel and Loowit Channel merge on the Pumice Plain. Spirit Lake is visible on the upper right. The yellowish-green color on the surface is plant growth.

Ash plume and crater rim at Mount St. Helens, October 2004, aerial view.

Dome and glacier within Mount St. Helens crater, October 2004, aerial view from the south.

FLIR (forward looking infrared monitoring instrument) mounted on nose of helicopter with Mount St. Helens in the background.

Mount St. Helens with a swarm of news trucks during the October, 2004 increase in activity.

Mount St. Helens' crater, October 2004, aerial view from the east.

Dome and glacier within Mount St. Helens's crater, October 2004, aerial view from the northwest.

Ash plume and crater rim at Mount St. Helens, October 2004, aerial view from the south.

Crater rim and ash from October 2004 Mount St. Helens plume.

Dome within Mount St. Helens' crater, aerial view from the east.

Sunset on the crater rim and flanks of Mount St. Helens, with Mount Adams in the distance.

Crater and 1980-86 lava dome of Mount St. Helens, ash covered areas are grey, and new vent is the depression in lower center of photograph. Spirit Lake is in the background. View toward the north.

Beginning of plume above Mount St. Helens dome, as seen from Johnston Ridge Observatory.

Ash, erupted from the early phases of the 2004 Mount St. Helens activity, is remobilized from the surface of an ash-covered from a moving vehicle.

Crater and 1980-1986 dome of Mount St. Helens with the glacier on the right. View toward the south.

Dome inside the crater of Mount St. Helens, with the 2004 "welt" in a darker grey shade at the south edge (top in this photo) of the lighter colored 1980-86 dome. Aerial view toward the south.

Mount St. Helens dome and jumbled glacier from the south. October 2005

Mount St. Helens crater and dome as seen from the northeast. To the right of the dome, the snout (nose or leading edge) of Crater Glacier is visible. October 2005