Mt. St. Helens Flight

Flight with Marcus from Hillsboro to Mt. St. Helens
In N52013, a Cessna 172P
October 13, 2007, 4:45pm to 6:45pm
My blog entry.
Marcus’s blog entry.

This was my second flight with my good friend Marcus who has his private pilot’s license, and who is now training for his instrument rating! For this flight he took us up around Mt. St. Helens, where we had spectacular views of Mt. Rainier, Mt. Adams, of course St. Helens itself. We could also see Mt. Hood pretty nicely and even had glimpses of Mt. Jefferson in the distance. The views of the rivers and the rich green lesser mountains were also amazing, but because of the atmospheric haze that day (and most days) those shots didn’t turn out as well. Anyway, I chose some of the better photos to show here. I hope you enjoy them. To see pretty much all the photos I took during that flight and to read more about it, check out Marcus’s blog entry about the flight, which has a link at the bottom to his flickr album with all the photos.

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Adams in the Background

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Hood in the Background

Mt. St. Helens and Spirit Lake with Mt. Hood in the Background

Spirit Lake and Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Hood in the Background

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Rainier in the Background

Mt. St. Helens with Beautiful Green Lesser Mountains

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Horseshoe Lake in Woodland, WA

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Adams in the background

Mt. St. Helens

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Hood in the background. Notice the growing lava dome in the center. I've seen images of this on TV and on the web, but it was pretty amazing to see it first hand from the sky.

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Hood in the background

Mt. St. Helens and Spirit Lake with Mt. Hood in the background.

Mt. St. Helens and Spirit Lake with Mt. Hood in the background

I am pretty sure this is Mt. Adams, right?

Mt. Rainier

Spirit Lake and Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Hood in the background

Spirit Lake

Mt. St. Helens and Spirit Lake

Mt. St. Helens

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Rainier in the background

Mt. St. Helens

Mt. St. Helens with Mt. Rainier in the Background

Mt. St. Helens with some of the beautiful green lesser mountains in the foreground

This was a new GPS that had been installed since Marcus last flew this plane. It seemed pretty cool, although I had no idea half of the things Marcus was doing with it.

When it started to get dark Marcus headed back toward Hillsboro, but there were still some pretty neat views of the Columbia River to be had. It was a great flight.