Images

The dark "muddy" looking area in the right foreground is old erosional debris flows from Step Channel (on right) over the years. The lighter ribbon of grey to the left of the darker area is a lahar from Loowit Channel from early morning of October 6, 2004. The yellowish-green color on the surface is plant growth.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Dome within Mount St. Helens' crater, 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Mount St. Helens dome as seen from above the southwestern crater rim. Ash from the plume of 10-01-04 is visible on the glacier at the base of the dome. The vent from that event is visible at the base of the dome on the right. 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