Spirit Lake (Mt St Helens)
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2021
- At the base of Mt St Helens is Spirit Lake which was drastically affected by the 1980 eruption that sent a forest worth of trees into its water.
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I was 15 in 1979 and I got to paddle across the Spirit lake with a group of teenagers and Harry Truman himself, I'm 60 now and I will never forget it
Whoa! It’s been really interesting to receive comments of folks that remember old Mt St Helens and/or the eruption, but you’re the first to mention having met Harry Truman!
There are a lot of comments under a documentary someone posted - Rory McVeigh channel.
During my student days at Ohio University, I took a photography course that was taught by David Cupp. This was about 1990 or 1991. Cupp did work for National Geographic.
He finally got to talk with Harry Truman. Mr. Truman decided Cupp was a real journalist when Cupp gave him a bottle of whiskey.
IIRC, David Cupp's pictures were in a story immediately after the eruption. He had a great portrait of Truman that he showed us. Unfortunately, he died about five years ago.
nice job. chill, informative and welcoming. we need more streamers like you
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video, and that may be one of the best compliments I’ve received on this channel!
Nice job and accurate as well. I am disabled, but because of your efforts I can see amazing video of the area.
Thank you! I’m glad the video was able to offer a view of that beautiful area.
I saw St.Helens in 1981 as a teenager, it indeed looked like a moonscape. I would love to see it now...
Oh wow! That must have been quite a sight. Pics can only show so much, so seeing it firsthand must have been something
I live in the Netherlands now, and most things are built on poles, many of which are wooden poles ( or piles). They can last for 100 years or so, in some cases longer. They some times use a concrete top cap (as the exposed part of the wood will rot much faster than the wet part beneath). I have had experience of this first hand, and it is easy to see that after 25 or 30 years the top sections are showing signs of decay, but when we remove the pole, say 4 or 5 meters in length, the part that was in the water is basically as good as the day it went in the ground. We often re use those for other projects. But seeing this massive expanse of floating trees, is simply jaw dropping. Nature is truly an amazing beauty.... (it is worth mentioning that modern buildings are built on concrete poles, and even my own home that is more than 100 years old, is now on a newer concrete pole, that we share with the houses on each side of us. 18 houses that sit together, but only every other house has poles, and the ones that don't, sit on the edges of the other house. Crazy engineering that these Dutchies are able to do).
Wow, for some reason that seems so counterintuitive to me. I would imagine the water would degrade it, but it almost seems like it’s the opposite and being exposed to air is worse! Haha. Thanks for the reply, it definitely sheds some insight on what’s going on in that lake.
I’ve hiked to the summit twice and it was life changing to see this in person.
That’s awesome! I overheard the Ranger and Johnston ridge talk about it, said it was pretty tough, rocks were pretty sharp…. Must have been amazing to see it so close!
I was 13 when she blew in 1980. Just two weeks later, I was flying INSIDE the crater in a helicopter from my father's Reserve unit, which had made numerous life-savings rescues. The smell of sulphur bubbling up from boiling fissures in and outside the crater debris field has stuck in my memory ever since.
Whoa! That is so cool! You got to see something in person that the rest of us got to see in grainy 1980 footage.
I can't believe those trees are still floating there more than 40 years later. I'd have thought that being immersed in water all that time they'd have decayed long ago. Of course, it depends on the type of tree. I've heard of people raising cypress logs from Louisiana swamps that had been cut down more than 100 years ago and the wood was still perfectly usable.
Oh wow!… I don’t know much about that, but I wouldn’t imagine those would be very high quality wood lol
The logs in our 5 Great Lakes have been logged and the wood is very expensive. They actually make violins out of them..
As longs as wood stays wet, it can last hundreds of years. Take old wooden ships for example. Some have been recovered mostly intact after sitting at the bottom of the ocean for centuries. It’s when it goes from wet to dry and wet again and so on, that it begins to decay rapidly. The Superdome in Louisiana is built on wood pilings, as well as parts of Venice
Thought that they would have cleared them out...
@@husq48 So would I, there must be a use for it, if only as fuel.
The wood that lasts for centuries, is normally covered in mud
and free from oxygen.
My mom and her best friend went to Mt. St. Helens in 1989 and saw Spirit Lake. Her friend was almost blown off Windy Ridge in a port-a-potty, lol.
Hahaha! That's hilarious! I'm glad it was just an "almost" story though. And I believe it. My 2nd time there I definitely got some wind and thought "well, this is why it's called windy ridge" lol.
Imagine a wide shot of the lake through this event.
That would be pretty epic to say the least!
An interesting tidbit about spirit lake. You are seeing the beginning formation of a coal bed. If you were to look under the lake you would see standing logs under the water. In a bunch of coal beds you would see the remnants of standing trees and the remnants of bark from those trees. That is where the bark from those logs are at.
Whoa! That’s really cool… or I guess I should say “really coal!” Haha
I climbed it 3 times as a teenager. That's where I grew up hiking and fishing the lakes around the mountain.
Oh cool! Did you climb it 3 times pre-eruption or post? Either way that must have been some climb! Can only imagine what the view was like
I'm 67 now and climbed the mountain pre eruption in the early 70s you look like your standing near the old YMCA camp near spirit lake.
It’s funny, the kiosk near windy ridge shows the locations of all the camps and lodges, but I never thought to compare where I was standing to that map!
From where it looks like the old YMCA camp I caught lot's of fish. Then we could hike for miles in steep terrain to grizzly lake boot lake and obscurity lake. All great fishing that was living for me. Still live in the high Cascades today at the base of Mt Adams.
Hi, Your video is terrific. My family & I were living in Vancouver in 1980. I was only 8 years old when she blew. I just did an English course on for college. I got an A+. It's amazing to know that it's been 42 years since it happened. Just wanted to drop a note.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it…. When you say Vancouver, was it the WA one? I’d imagine you got a decent amount of ash. If Canada, I’d guess a pretty spectacular show as well?
I'm amazed that the logs in the water haven't come apart more than that!
I guess after 40 years they developed a bond! Lol
Excellent video……very interesting and informative. I enjoyed it very much. Thank you. Mt. St. Helens is definitely on my bucket list. Would love to get over to that side of the country.
Thank you! Yeah, it was a bucket list thing for me too and I’m glad I’ve been able to visit a couple of times. AND managed to have clear blue sky! Lol
Thanks for bringing us to Spirit Lake. ⚘💯⚘
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
This was such a good video! Im fascinated by this. Learned a lot. Thank you!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video.
watch this about the logs. ua-cam.com/video/W4a6oWZQ2ok/v-deo.html
You did your homework! I know a lot about the eruption myself and you nailed it. Great informative video and great video shots of the surrounding area. Thank you for sharing this. I was 9 years old when Mount St Helen’s erupted. I got to visit the volcano back in 1985. It was a very creepy place. All the trees laid in one direction from the lateral blast. It’s amazing how powerful the blast was. Thanks again. New subscriber!!
Thanks! Some of it I knew from a previous visit, some from stuff I’d read, and some from reading the info while visiting…
That’s so cool that you got to visit so soon after! I can only imagine how eerie it was. My first visit was just a couple years ago, so I didn’t see any of that, but still amazing area!
@@anayaontheroad2129 when we went to visit it looked as if the eruption had recently happened. There was still ash all over the place. Everything was still covered in it, including the roads. When we stopped by the USGS office on our way up, they told us that if it started to rain to get out of the area immediately because when the water would get mixed with ash, they said that it was like silk and very hazardous. As Our luck would have it, it started to sprinkle on our way down but luckily we made it back without any issues lol There we’re no guardrails anywhere so yeah, it was pretty treacherous!
It looked nothing like what it does today. Glad to see it making a comeback! While we were at the USGS office, they gave us all color brochures and I still have mine. 😎👍🏻
To anyone reading this planning a trip to the area - The Johnston Ridge Observatory will be closed for the entire 2024 AND 2025 seasons due to a road washout and landslide shortly before the observatory. Windy Ridge and all the south side areas are open.
Interestingly, this happened at the bend where the highway crosses South Coldwater Creek, which is fed upstream by the Spirit Lake outlet tunnel.
Thank you!!!
Oh wow, I made this video years ago and don’t live in the PNW, so thank you for the timely info!
When I went to Johnson’s Observatory I really had the desire to go to the lake. But the people I was with didn’t want to. Next time!
Next time for sure! But I’m biased, haha… it takes some effort, but I thought it was worth it
My parents were at The Grotto (a Catholic Sanctuary in Portland, Oregon) at the gardens and saw most of the eruption!
Oh wow, that is so cool! I can only imagine how crazy that view must have been
Wow, that takes me back! Haven't been there in years!
Great info and great video! Well done!
Thank you!
Nicely made , well articulated ; Digging 4 the other related video u mentioned @ the Intro ; our family visited Mt. Rainier while living in Tacoma ; We had left the state a few yrs b4 MSH blew ; I think DJ was in another locale vs a few other geologists who were stationed just far enough away 2 avoid the blast upon evacuating .. I subscribed b4 the conclusion of this vid ; Looking 4ward 2 future posts ..
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video.
That other video is ua-cam.com/video/EIxirogwFbA/v-deo.html
Thanks for posting. Nice video. I like your commentary.
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Fascinating! Great video and your volume is fine! Poor Harry!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video, and thanks for the feedback. I’d rewatched it a few times scratching my head about the volume comments lol
Awesome bro! I'd love to see it...I remember feeling the shock wave ...hit the house all the way up to Vancouver Canada. Shook the windows!
Whoa! That’s pretty far away!…. That’s really cool.
Wow. Was a steam explosion. Super-compressed steam uncorked by the landslide caused by the earthquake. Ejected rocks at speed of sound. Ejected boulders the size of houses. Shockwave bent trees over - miles away - until they snapped.
Very interesting. Thank you. Greetings from 🇬🇧 !
Thank you from across the pond! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Great job!! Very well done, I have visited that area since 1982. Back then Windy Ridge was the only access, as all roads from the west side had been destroyed. From your viewpoint at Harmony Falls you actually can’t see the Spirit Lake outtake tunnel that maintains the lake level, however it is visible from Windy Ridge. The outlet drains into South Coldwater Creek, which you drive next to as you approach the Johnston Ridge Observatory, it then drains into the outlet creek of Coldwater Lake, then joins the Toutle River. Coldwater Lake, which was formed as a result of the massive landslide is maintained by the natural drainage from the upper (north) Coldwater Creek. The north creek headwaters just below Mt. Whittier is a very interesting place, it received huge amounts of ash, burying everything like a giant sand drift, much of which is still visible today.
Awesome! Good to know. I really had only a vague idea of where the intake was, and combined with the shadows and no binoculars I probably wouldn’t have found it anyway lol... that’s really cool that you’ve been visiting since so recently after the blast. Seeing the recovery process for yourself.
@@anayaontheroad2129 when they first allowed public access to Windy Ridge very little clean up had been done other than clearing a dirt road. Giant mountains of broken and blown over trees had all congregated at the outer limits of the blast zone. You could see the wind patterns in the trees laid over on the hillsides. They had set up gas powered Air Raid Sirens on trailers all over the place incase the area needed to be evacuated do to volcanic activity or Lahar. I still have a paper map, someplace, that shows all exclusion zones and evacuation routes. Windy Ridge looked like the surface of the Moon, not a single plant or blade of grass, completely void of any color other than gray.
Oh wow. That must have all been quite a sight! Like I’ve seen a little of the footage, but I’m sure early 1980’s cameras don’t do it justice.
Great Job!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for the experience!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video!
Thanks!
Just watched a nat geo special on this. Scary but very interesting listening to the scientists describing the weeks leading up to the eruption. It’s a weird feeling being so impressed by something like this and knowing people died in the event. Similar to the Titanic in a way I guess, we think we know how something will play out but...we get proved wrong a lot unfortunately.
Yeah, I know what you mean about getting swept up in the idea of it all and kind inadvertently seeing the casualties as just “numbers”… all things considers though, 57 lives lost seems pretty minimal for all that went on!
Oh yes I remember that beautiful May spring day well. I was painting some trim on my Seattle house when I heard the boom. Spent that afternoon at my mother’s birthday party watching the events unfold on TV. It feels like yesterday. Great video!
Wow! That’s really awesome that you were able to hear it! That must have been something to see everything unfold in real-time. It’s so different watching an hour long documentary vs living it.
Right on,nice vid bro!
Thanks!
Greatest opening line in UA-cam history
Hahaha, thanks!… it definitely skirted a line my channel doesn’t normally ride, but I only recorded one version so I had to go with it! Lol
I watched the whole evolution from my back porch 35 miles west. Very exciting.
Oh wow! That must have been quite a sight!
@@anayaontheroad2129 Yes it was, especially since I grew up with it prominent on the near horizon, building toy volcanos in the beach sand. It is odd to watch the horizon change.
Did your family get any pictures of the eruption? And even though you were 35 miles away, were you scared or nervous you might be effected?
@@anayaontheroad2129 All my family were far away in Alaska, I was there alone, and that was long before cell phones. I just sat and watched in complete awe. The mountain went from calm and peaceful against a cloudless blue summer sky to a 35 mile high roiling column of boiling dark blue gray chaos in about 5 minutes, and all without a sound.
I was pretty sure there would be some effect, but not terribly nervous. I'm not really the nervous type. About an hour after the main eruption it began to rain sand. The sound was the strangest part, a loud, dry hissing utterly unlike our normal Oregon wet stuff.
Whoa! Raining sand? That’s amazing.
A day later and my fiancés dad would have been in the area logging working for Weyerhaeuser
Oh wow! He really got lucky… and I guess it’s safe to say that the job was cancelled? Lol
Thanks very good video!!! It’s a shame that no one try to reclaim all that logs. Just going to waste, shame😢😢😢😢😢
Thank you!… and it kinda seems like they want to leave the area as undisturbed as possible, including the logs.
Very educational thank you
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Awesome!
Thanks!
Well done!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
My summer camp was on Spirit lk. Great memories.
Whoa! Judging from the few pics I’ve seen of the pre-eruption lake those must have been pretty scenic summers!
That was fascinating, and brings back so many details I'd forgotten -- most of all Harry Truman and his fatal decision to remain, which I suppose I can understand, given his advanced age, his widowhood, and how rooted he was to the place. But poor David Johnson, who was just 30 . . . utterly consumed by the thing he loved.
Have you seen photos of Spokane after the eruption? From a distance it looked as though it was covered with snow, rather than ash. And cars? That ash was hell on air filters.
Thanks for the education, as always! -Bill
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. Mt St. Helens is just so interesting, and wish I could include more details, but don’t want to make an hour long video, haha
And I agree, the David Johnston story is kinda heartbreaking, being so young.... and I’ve seen some clips of the ash, and yeah, wow. It looks so apocalyptic!
I remember seeing an interview with Harry Truman where he said "Spirit Lake and the mountain are part of me, and I'm part of them". That is 100% true!
Well that was quite prophetic! 😳
Harry Truman thought he was smarter than everyone else. Sadly he was killed sadly and eviscerated into dust
Truman had SIXTEEN cats and two dogs with him that day ):
I worked for the USFS then and lived 12 air miles on the SW side. Watched it all day on the 18th. I walked the Harmony Falls trail back in the day after it opened up.
Oh wow! That’s so cool! So many questions…. Being on the SW side you were pretty safe from it all? Did you hear it? What was the harmony falls trail like when it opened?
@@anayaontheroad2129 We were too close to hear it on the 18th, but in June we were digging clams at Copalis Beach and we heard it blow that time. We did get ash from the June eruption and October 1980 eruption we got pumice. It was very plain with lots of pumice and one very small lone fir tree. I agree going down was fine, but going up the trail was tough.
That’s so interesting!… it’s one thing to see pics or read about something, it’s another to hear firsthand accounts of what the area was like just after
@@anayaontheroad2129 You can check the internet about my story. Google my name and Mount St. Helens.
Awesome! I will check that out
Love your video! I really would love to be able to get down to the lake, can you please help me find more info on finding the route down that you took please?
Sorry for the late reply.
As far as I could tell that trail is one of the few (or only?) trails down to the water level. It's The Harmony Trail (or Harmony Falls) and it's from one of the viewpoints (small parking lot) on the drive up to Windy Ridge. The trail itself was well marked and easy to follow.
Hope that helps. And thanks! I'm glad you liked the video.
Great vid
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Truman had SIXTEEN cats and two dogs with him that day ):
Excuse me? Lol… i feel like the more I learn about this guy, the more, dare I say odd and eccentric he becomes lol
@@anayaontheroad2129 it’s true
@@gatoslokosforever I believe it… after I filmed this I learned a little more about him and realized I portrayed him maybe a tad more sympathetic than I should have, which was why I included the text at the bottom at that part of the video lol
I always felt bad for the animals. He chose to stay there and die with the volcano but the cats and dogs didn't have a choice 😢
Apparently the police when urging him to leave the day before and left their door open (on purpose) a 😺 hopped in and left with it
Ill never forget that day
Oh wow, I’m assuming you lived somewhere in the PNW at the time?
Look at St Helens now!
There are signs of beauty but the mountain itself is a shell of what it was!
Funny thing is that it kind of reminds me of Mt. Ararat (Turkey). That volcano also had an eruption around 1840. Tore out a huge gash in the Northeast sector and created the Ahora Gorge.
The St Helens devastation from the 1980 eruption is WORSE. It's like at least 1/3 of the mountain collapsed and disappeared and it lost over a thousand feet in altitude.
In human terms, picture someone with an 80-lb tumor in their body that makes them look obese or like a hunchback. Then, see the same person post-surgery looking like they wasted away to nothing after the tumor tissue was cut out!
Yeah, even in its devastated state it still has a certain beauty to it. It would have been interesting to see the area 20 or 30 years ago when the blast was more recent.
@@anayaontheroad2129 I've seen those photos in National Geographic post-blast. It was devastated, desolate, and DEATH was everywhere. All the dead animals, blown over trees and ash and mud everywhere. 40 years later, there are still bodies of human victims they haven't recovered.
It looked more like the surface of the Moon than Planet Earth for years!
I didn't need to see that in person. A funeral home is somber enough without seeing that magnified 1000 times in front of me, in person. You really wouldn't see the people but there were many dead animals captured on film.
The funny thing is the ash partly facilitated the resurrection of that area. I don't know what else to call it.
Within 10 years now, it was a different situation and life was returning. They had grass again, plants were growing, and the only really visible signs of destruction were the tree timbers they never removed and the resculpted St. Helens. The animal bodies were removed soon after the eruption (and destroyed) because they didn't want to have a plague with hundreds of decomposing remains.
I think it looks gorgeous now from all the video I've seen but there's been rumblings and we all wonder when the next disaster is going to happen.
Enjoy it while we have it! Honestly, I wouldn't dwell on it and worry to death unless the geologists report it looks like it's REALLY going to blow. They had warnings in early 1980 but people didn't pay attention. That's on the people who chose to stay -- the geologists did their job!
Yeah, those pics from immediately after are pretty devastating. I’m sure there must have been an eerie stillness to the place for a long time after before the life started to return
This event shows how quickly landscapes change not millions of years
*can change.
Some processes do take thousands or millions of years, and from what I understand geologists can often differentiate when something happened suddenly or gradually.
Well sure, when there is an EVENT. Most places don’t have an explosive volcano nearby.
Very well spoken and informative Would like to see you do true crime documenterys u keep the viewier intrested forsure...Good job...
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video. Though not sure I’d be ready to branch out, I can barely handle making the travel videos, haha
Hey man love the video! New subscriber. I live over in Washington what part are you from!?
Thanks!… I’m actually not from Washington. This was just a trip I took up the the area last year
I wonder if out of all those logs in Spirit Lake, is there even one that floats vertically like the "Old Man of the Lake" log at Crater Lake?
Now you have me curious! Haha
I've always been curious what the location of the harry truman st helens lodge looks like today but I can't find anything
According to the signage at other viewpoints, the lodge was not only buried, but with the lake surface area doubling, it’s now underwater. (I was going to include that but cut it from my video due to time.)
Good thing David Johnston was there on that ridge to let us know when it blew otherwise no one may have noticed.
The man lost his life show some class smart ass
I suppose that’s one interpretation…
Love these types of videos.
Can you please do a video or even reply to.let me know where Harry trumans old Lodge and House would be today or what it looks like today?
Is it where harrys ridge is?
Please I can't find info anywhere.
I know the Lodge was buried but even still.
Can't believe nobody has done a now and after video on harrys Lodge and house.
Sorry for the late reply.
As for Harry's lodge one of the viewpoints has an information kiosk that has a map of where various campgrounds and such used to be in relation to the new water level of the lake. According to that map, the Mt St Helens Lodge would currently be under water (and probably under lots of rock and debris I would imagine).
Hope that helps! And glad you enjoyed the video.
The landslide from the eruption raised the lakebed 200 feet ( 60 meters). The lodge was blasted to matchsticks by the force of it. Just consider how ancient massive trees were broken in half.
If you look up the damage from the Oso , Washington landslide , then add in a massive steam explosion from a volcano, that gives you an idea.
That is one flat Pontiac!
Haha yeah! Given that those people survived I feel okay laughing about that wreck
Another must-see when in the Windy Ridge area. The heat burnt the paint off the car, and the dents were from trees. It is a rusty wreck now, but worth seeing. "Miner's Car"
Was harry trumans lodge on side where logs are floating?
As far as I can tell it was on the opposite side of the lake, which I think would be more to the south near the mountain. The logs on this trip were near what I think was the north end.
At least that's how it seems from the map on the kiosk.
Great video! What month did you visit the lake?
Thank you! I went down to the lake in September, and have been to nearby windy ridge twice in September. As expected it was windy both times, but otherwise great weather.
The Mt Saint Helen's destroy the entire place costing 1 billion damage of it man I wanna go there
It’s still a pretty beautiful area, even with the destruction. And plus it’s had 40 years to start bouncing back
@@anayaontheroad2129 yeah
Why don’t they removed logs in the water?
I get the impression they want to leave the lake in as natural a state as possible
Overtime those logs will petrified wood in millions of years from now
Safe to say they won’t be floating anymore! Lol…. And they do seem to have lost a lot of their color floating for 40 years
Interesting
Thanks!
This is certainly fascinating. I don't understand why they won't remove the floating logs to help clear the lake.
I get the impression they want to see the recovery with as little intervention as possible… minus the outtake tunnel lol
@@anayaontheroad2129 I've heard that their are some really big fish in there!
The ecosystems have evolved to utilize timber felled in eruptions....erosion is so much worse than it should be because of humanity's habit of clearing organic debris from anywhere we are and depriving the environment of needed nutrients and an essential element of the ecosystem.. and it helps speed up desertification
How come no one has cleaned the debris out? I mean it's been 40 years since eruption.
I think that’s part of their plan, to just let things be and see what happens
TURN UR VOLUME UP
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That would one day be a rushed coal bed if a Landslide covered it .
Real life chance to test the deep time theory of coal
Oh wow. I don’t know much about coal, but sounds interesting!
why haven't we cleaned the lake up?
As far as I can tell they’ve decided to leave the region as undisturbed as possible to study how an environment rebounds after a such a catastrophic event.
Beautiful part of the U.S. Visit if you can.
Agreed!
I’m wondering why the national park services hadn’t come up with a plan to remove the logs.
I get the impression that they want to leave the area as unaltered as possible to observe how it rebounds after such a major event
The trees and everything else will rot away in time and be excellent fertilizer for future trees,shrubs and other plant life. Animals such as fish beavers and other water dwelling species will use the rubble for shelter and forage for food like insects,grubs and other small creatures. It is mother nature's plan and we should let it do what it has always done. Life will find away no matter what is thrown at it. ✌
Well said! Very much akin to Ian Malcolm’s “life finds a way” from Jurassic park
It’s an active volcano, I would believe if it exploded again it would send hundreds of thousands of logs downstream and aerially which seems to me could be a major hazard. Obviously I get the other part, but in this instance the volcano isn’t extinct or dormant
@@hedonisticmind that’s a good point…. Maybe they’re figuring a blast big enough to send the logs downstream or aerially would already be causing a lot of damage anyway? Or maybe they never even considered it? 🤷♂️
Are those trees worth anything...? Wood,firewood, pallets, etc.
They are part of a very long science observation.
There are ancient massive trees at the bottom of Lake Washington from a landslide hundreds of years ago. Still intact. A company was caught and fined for trying to harvest them maybe 15 years ago.
As far as I can tell they’ve decided to leave the region as undisturbed as possible in order to better understand the process of how an environment rebounds after a major event like the eruption.
Can use apparently stinky ball cap as bear repellent
So far the stinky cap only seems to repel other humans 🤷♂️
I dont understand why they don't clear those logs off the lake and let things get back to normal, and maybe let people recreate there again..
I guess they saw a unique opportunity to study a lake rebounding and figured it’s worth it to leave it as is 🤷♂️
Your content is amazing. I think you’d have 100k+ subscribers if you had fancier equipment.
Thanks! I’m glad you’re enjoying the the videos... and yeah, I’m currently a pretty low tech operation, haha
@@anayaontheroad2129 IMO it would be a worthwhile investment in yourself to upgrade. You don’t have to spend a fortune. Your knowledge is valuable; the more people that get to watch it, the better.
I’ve thought about getting a camera, but even after a couple years I’m still kinda shy when I record myself in public and recording with my phone is a tad more incognito, so I have to jump that hurdle first! Haha
@@anayaontheroad2129 I wouldn’t bother with a camera. Phone cameras are pretty awesome these days. Get a nicer mic, like something from Shure or Røde. That’s pretty much all you need. Your content is awesome. Good luck!
@@anayaontheroad2129 This was pretty good stuff man. You could probably pick up a selfie-stick and a wireless mic with some sort of wind dampener for less than $100. Thanks for posting this and good luck.
I wonder why they didnt take out all tose logs and wood.
I think their approach is to leave it as natural and undisturbed as possible. At least that’s the impression I get.
Take the logs out and use them
I kind of get the impression they want to leave the lake as undisturbed as possible to see how it recovers.
So if the water level raised by 200ft wonder what the bottom of that lake looks like and how soft that sediment is.
Hmm. I hadn’t thought of that! Now I’m kinda curious.
Rocks. Sunken trees. Dangerous for any water activity.
The volume on this video is low
Thanks for the feedback!
I have a feeling Harry's wife's name was pronounced E-D, not Eddie.
Haha, that makes way more sense!
@@anayaontheroad2129 She was probably an "Edith" like Archie Bunker's wife in "All in the Family" and they called her by a nickname.
Why dont they clean it up
It kind of seems like they want to leave the lake as is to to study how it rebounds from the eruption.
Agreed.
Why hasn’t anyone harvested all that lumber that’s just floating in the lake???
I kind of get the impression that leaving them as they are is part of their plan to observe the recovery process?
That area was declared a National Monument by President Reagan. It's not to be altered by humans, just studied as nature rebuilds itself.
Awesome stuff, thank you 😊
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The Mt St Helens disaster Proves beyond a shadow of a drought, that the Grand Canyon was not carved by a huge lake that overflowed, and that it only took maybe a couple of weeks! God is good,
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Respectfully, I disagree... and not entirely sure I follow the parallels between the landscape at Mt St. Helens and Grand Canyon, or that it was an overflowing lake that created it.
I never knew Harry was gay.
Lol… someone in a comment posted how her name should have been pronounced and that was quite a “duh” moment for me 🤦♂️
Log that puppy use a chopper waste not.you would think that environmentalists would pay to do that. Not. their full of crap for money organizations
I could be wrong, but I feel that leaving the area as close to its natural state as possible, which they have kinda done, is the more environmentalist way to go?
I believe in God but what a creator bacteria has proven itself to be.
And without even trying! Haha, it’s just doing it’s thing
On comprend rien!!! Parle plus fort
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Fat shame
It had been a while so I re-watched. Not sure when the fat shame was unless this is a comment on my weight, then I get it! Lol
lost me with first comment... grow up little boy
Aw gee mister. That video was a real long time ago, and I’ve growns a lot since then! Promise!
so annoying.
The eruption? I mean, they happen from time to time.
I was on a ball field at practice at Springfield Oregon approximately 120 miles away and we felt the concussion from it! True story!😳
Oh wow, even that far away you could not just see it, but also feel it?!? That’s amazing
@@anayaontheroad2129 True, we thought it was an earthquake, didn’t realize what we felt was the eruption until we turned on the local tv report! True!😳
@@anayaontheroad2129 didn’t see it, but heard, felt the blast delayed!!
Whoa! That’s so cool to have been able to witness it in such a way!
@@anayaontheroad2129 I’ll machine bring over 100 miles away and feeling, hearing the blast? No crap!😳😳😳
Pourquoi ne pas avoir utilisé ce bois?
I think since they wanted to disturb the lake as little as possible, it meant not using the wood
It provides habitats and nutrients.
I rode logs around that lake
Before or after the eruption? Either way would be equally interesting!
It's infuriating that they let those trees die for no reason , every single one of those logs should have been harvested instead of being left to rot . For a bunch of environmentalists, the people of the pnw have failed the environment over n over again ...
I suppose only seeing through the lens of economic value then it’s a waste, but getting to study a recently devastated area with minimal intervention has its own value.