The Day I Had Lunch at the Crater of a Volcano

Seeing something that isn’t there

The first time I saw Mount Saint Helens, I knew I had to climb it. I was at the observatory five miles away from the summit during a stop on a short road trip with friends, but even from a distance, I found the environment stunning. Saint Helens is a place of destruction and rebirth, where a single event eradicated the life in…