McClelland Viewpoint

[AlanLichty]

I don't have a clue who McClelland was but he got a nice viewpoint in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest named after him and this is what Mt. St. Helens looks like from there. There aren't a lot of good viewpoints in this forest that will let you see beyond the trees along the roadways but this is one of the better ones. This is a capture from 10 years ago I recently reworked using newer software.

C&C always welcome.

 

[Michael13]

From this angle it looks like a broken off smokestack releasing steam which is rapidly taken away by the wind. You're right about the viewpoints being sparse in this area. Mt. St. Helens has very few complete views unless you're right up on it.

 

[AlanLichty]

From this angle it looks like a broken off smokestack releasing steam which is rapidly taken away by the wind. You're right about the viewpoints being sparse in this area. Mt. St. Helens has very few complete views unless you're right up on it.

Thanks Michael - the clouds are purely coincidental and not coming from the volcano but their position in the scene certainly makes it look that way. I am still looking around for good places to launch my drone from to get better views of the mountain and am building a list of spots to visit after the snow melts and opens up the backroads.

 

[JimFox]

I am glad you reworked this Alan. That's a cool one, and I do like how the clouds feel like steam being released from the vents on St Helen's.

 

[AlanLichty]

I am glad you reworked this Alan. That's a cool one, and I do like how the clouds feel like steam being released from the vents on St Helen's.

Thanks Jim - I wish I had some shots of St. Helens from this viewpoint while it was still venting between 2005 and 2007. I do have a bunch of shots from the Windy Ridge viewpoints from 2007 I should try to rework to see what I can do with them now.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice view of St Helens. The green foreground hides the actual devastation of forest when it erupted. While things are recovering there quite a bit, getting closer still shows signs.

 

[AlanLichty]

Nice view of St Helens. The green foreground hides the actual devastation of forest when it erupted. While things are recovering there quite a bit, getting closer still shows signs.

Thanks Jameel - the forests on this side of St. Helens don't really show the blast zone that is more visible on the more northern exposures of the mountain. The views from either Johnson Ridge or Windy Ridge have a more vivid views of the destruction. I do have some shots of the blast zone from 2007 that are notably stark and barren when it comes to vegetation. Equally amazing is how much has grown back since I took those images.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I like this a lot, Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

I like this a lot, Alan.

Thanks Doug - I was pretty happy with how this one turned out.

 

[John Holbrook]

Very, very nice indeed Alan—love the greens to blues transition.

 

[AlanLichty]

Very, very nice indeed Alan—love the greens to blues transition.

Thanks John - this is one of the better views you can get of the side of the mountain that didn't blow apart.