Me and a few running friends decided to run around Mt St Helens as a training run for White River on Saturday, June 30, 2018. Here are a few photos from our 33 mile counter-clockwise circumnavigation on the Loowit Trail around Helens. My group took 12 and a half hours. (Others finished faster.)
Our first view of the mountain/volcano
Crossing our first boulder field
The crew stopping at the first junction: Brook, Sean, Eileen, Elizabeth, Danny, and Nicola. What a cool looking crew, I might add!
Bear grass
Time to fill our water bottles and grab some food
Running along one of many many ridges
Me and Sean in front of Loowit falls
Nicola and I on the Plains of Abraham
Climbing out of the plains. The soil was very unstable
Me and my shadow
Sean and Brook
Brook, Sean, and I in front of the crater
The crater
Spirit Lake
Climbing up a rope
Lots of ups and downs (Spirit Lake in the background)
Checking out the stream crossing
There were so many different microclimates on our route
More boulders
Towards the end the boulders seemed to go on forever
The Whole Geek 