A maple bar with two candles in it, held up over the rim of Mt St Helens crater, to commemorate a birthday celebration atop the world.

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #FavoriteThings; for me, it's damn hard to beat a birthday hike to somewhere incredibly special. Celebrating the 58th trip, atop my backyard #volcano.

#Donuts #MSHNVM #MSH #MtStHelens #Hiking #lavadome #landscapephotography #eastcoastkin #photographersofbluesky

Panoramic shot on the rim of the crater atop Mount St Helens. Mounts Rainier and Adams are visible on the horizon, poking up through billowy clouds.

Where the newest earth on Earth meets the sky!

#BlueSkyArtShow #sky #MSHNVM #MSH #MtStHelens #Hiking #volcano #lavadome

Hiker/climber descending the snowy slope down towards angry clouds below on Mt St Helens.

Descending into the clouds on Mt St Helens.

#BlueSkyArtShow #sky #MSHNVM #MSH #MtStHelens #Hiking #volcano

Lunch with a View! Taco Bell breakfast burrito with fire sauce on the crater rim of Mt St Helens.

Happy #TACOtuesday! 🌮

#DonTaco #WeakSauce #photography #nature #landscape #volcano #MSHNVM #hiking #traillunch

Snaking line of climbers ascending the final stretch up to the crater rim on Mount St Helens.

Looked like a conga line of #climbers up the last 1200' to the crater rim on #MtStHelens on the first permit-free day of fall. Normally well after the snow's started flying, the weather was glorious. 🌞

11.1.2020

#BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #nature #photography #landscape #volcano #hiking #MSHNVM

Reflection of dead trees in a calm mountain lake that has the appearance of a waveform audio graph.

Snags along the shoreline, and their #reflections in the still water, reminiscent of a waveform audio graph.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Lines #photography #nature #musicsky #MSHNVM #BlueLake #hiking

Pedestrian suspension bridge [currently closed!] across Lava Canyon on the eastern flank of Mt. Saint Helens.

Today's #BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Lines, and my first thoughts go to the incongruity of straight lines in #nature.

#photography #suspensionbridge #MSHNVM #LavaCanyon #hiking

The sun rising beside Mount St Helens from the Elk Rock Viewpoint.

Happy #Stunday!

On the way to many popular #hiking trails, this viewpoint offers a spectacular glimpse of what adventures lie ahead that day.

#photography #landscapephotography #sunrise #MSHNVM #volcano

Close-up view into the crater of Mt St Helens.

𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐𝘤𝘦

Some of the newest rocks on Earth, extruded out into the high lava dome within Mt St Helens' crater, completely surrounded by Earth's newest glacier!

#Photography #Nature #Crater #Glacier #Volcano #MSHNVM #Geology #Devastation #Rebirth #RockinTuesday

Mountain goat climbing between craggy rocks.

𝘐𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘤𝘶𝘵, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦'𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘭.

It's #RockinTuesday in the #Backcountry too!

#Photography #Hiking #MSHNVM #Goat #Wildlife #Nature

Moon reflecting on Spirit Lake with the silhouette of Mt St Helens in background.

Goodnight Moon.

#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Silhouette all day Saturday

#hiking #nature #photography #MSHNVM #SpiritLake #NorwayPass

Looking west through the Rock Arch on the Boundary Trail at sunset, just north of Mt. St. Helens in the heart of the blastzone.

Passing through the rock arch along the Boundary Trail, near Saint Helens Lake, brings you into the another world known as the Mount Margaret Backcountry.

#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Arch all day Saturday.

#mtsthelens #landscapephotography #trail #rockarch #shadowselfie #mshnvm #flipside

Looking east through the Rock Arch on the Boundary trail as the sun sets behind, just a few miles north of Mt. St. Helens in the heart of the blastzone.

Passing through the rock arch along the Boundary Trail, near Saint Helens Lake, brings you into the another world known as the Mount Margaret Backcountry.

#BlueSkyArtShow theme is #Arch all day Saturday.

#mtsthelens #landscapephotography #trail #rockarch #shadowselfie #mshnvm