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Trek to Johnson Ridge Visitors Center 4500' In which we trek up to Johnson Ridge 5 miles from the crater to visit the mountain 24 years later...hazy day with forest fires and wind-blown dust

From Below Coldwater Creek Lookout at 2500' Volcano explorers N & L Mt. Adams keeping an eye on its neighbor Not what it used to be but amazingly recovered from 1980 Crater and Lava Dome - no smoke, just ash dust blowing off the summit Rock-tossing N Lupine and "red flowers" : ) Still in the Zone of tree death Still-standing dead trees on the peak What's left of the Toutle River Valley Blast Zone - tree-less, hummocks, hundreds of feet thick in ash and debris 200-300' wall of "Stone Wind" moving at 300mph carved this out