(Keywords: Hiking, Climbing - Washington)
Featuring:
Mount
St Helens
When you fly into Portland, on a clear day, you will see something very disturbing. First looking southeast, you will see cone shaped Mt Hood. Then looking out the other side of the plane, you will see other mountainous landmarks punctuating lower Cascades. You will notice Mt Adams with the same smooth conical slopes. But when you see what is left of Mount St. Helens, you will can't help but feel the loss. Where Mount Hood and Mount Adams loom over 11,000-feet in stature, the peak of Mount St. Helens has been leveled to less than 8,400-feet during its violent volcanic eruption in 1980.
UPDATE: Late September, Early October 2004 Mount St. Helens began to rumble again, signaling high level volcanic activty alerts. For up-to-date info visit: USGS Cascade Range Current Update
The area around Mt St. Helens has been preserved as a monument to natural disaster. Several hundred square miles of the environment is still recovering. Climbing the mountain is restricted, permits are required above 4,800-feet elevation. Download this GPS Map of Mount St. Helens to stay oriented in the restricted area.
Click on the binoculars to see the Mount St Helens GPS Map drawn on GPS Visualizer - a great application of scalable vector graphics.
GPS Map
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Download the free GPS Map in GPS eXchange (.gpx) file format, which can be read and transferred to your GPS using free software. (The .gpx file will appear in a new window where you can File > Save as... on your computer)
GPS Map Details
File Name: helens.gpx
File Size: 204 KB
Revised: 18 October 2003
Class A1 Data Track
Class B1 Data Waypoints
Waypoints: 44 (Trailhead, camps, summit, etc.)
Tracks:
Boundary Trail starting from Johnston Ridge Observatory
Adventure Travel Tip
Most climbers use the Monitor Ridge route from Climbers Bivouac (Waypoint MSH15). Climbing is limited to 100 climbers a day from May 15 through October 31. Obtain permits at Jack's Restaurant and Store ( Waypoint MSH22).
As
a companion to this GPS Map of Mt St Helens, refer to 100
Hikes in Washington's South Cascades and Olympics: Chinook Pass, White Pass,
Goat Rocks, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams
For More Information
Gifford Pinchot National Forest Web Site
Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument Web Site
References
Special
thanks to Adam Schneider, author of GPS
Visualizer, who provided track data for the Boundary Trail and the photo
on this page.
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