Mount St Helens Volcanic Pins and Buttons

Features Mount Rainier, also known as Tahoma or Tacoma. Mt Rainier is a large active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, located in Mount Rainier National Park, southeast of Seattle, Washington.

looking away from Mount Saint Helens from Johnston's Ridge an entire forest of trees still lies dead on the ground of the surrounding mountains as a result of the 1980's volcanic eruption.

Color map of volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean in North and South America. Map is from the 1800s.

The sun shines radiantly in the cloud-streaked pale blue morning sky above mountains, including Mt St Helens, beyond the banks of the Columbia River near Kelso and Longview, Washington. Lens flare and sun rays streaming through the Oregon forest creates heavenly beauty in this picturesque scene of the Columbia River flowing peacefully between the Oregon and Washington shores near Kelso and Rainier.

Mt. St. Helen's in southwestern Washington State

Layers of mist and fog obscure the trees on the Washington bank of the Columbia river near Longview and Kelso as the dawn creates a lovely ambiance over the tiny town of Rainier nestled in the Oregon forest. Mount St Helens glows pale in the light in the distance, while a masonic lodge and a cross-topped church steeple are visible between layers of trees in the foreground.

The sun shines radiantly in the cloud-streaked pale blue morning sky above Mt St Helens and other mountains beyond the banks of the Columbia River near Kelso and Longview, Washington. Lens flare and sun rays streaming through the Oregon forest creates heavenly beauty in this picturesque scene of the Columbia River flowing peacefully between the Oregon and Washington shores near Kelso and Rainier.

A digital painting of the landscape around Mount St. Helens. This is not an actual scene. Mount Hood peeks over from Oregon in the background. Mount Rainier enters the scene at the bottom. There is a blue border with a pair of red apples. The statehood year is in the top right corner, 1889. In the center, the white text reads: "Washington State", "For you and me, a destiny", "Alki". Image Copyright ©2023 Kimberly J Tilley.

This is an outline of the Pacific Northwest State of Oregon with a photo of Portland, Oregon.

Like a ghostly apparition, this shattered tree stump at Johnston's Ridge stands as a reminder of the devastating volcanic eruption of Mount St Helens.The snow covered base of the volcano's crater is seen in the sunlit background.

This vibrant red bunch of paintbrush wildflowers, with a softly focused background textured by the volcanic soil on top of Johnston's Ridge, is a beautiful, fiery spot of color in an area still recovering from Mount St Helens' historic 1980 eruption.

paintbrush wildflowers, Johnston's Ridge 2