Finally, here are the summit photos! The first one below is of the lava dome, growing in the center of the blasted out volcano. Someday this will be a new summit. It's been 29 years since the mountain last erupted, and the dome is getting pretty large. You can also see Spirit Lake in the background. My dad says this used to be a beautiful, pristine lake at which he and his family used to pick huckleberries. It's now not only in a new location, slightly to the east, but is half-filled with logs left over from the blast.
The West wall of the volcano. You can see some of the striations, as this was a composite cone.
Kind of a dramatic look at the steepness of the drop into the caldera, looking east. Mt. Adams in the distance.
Bill on top. He got here first, of course.
Looking north toward Mt. Rainier.
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