Echoes of the Blast - Mount St. Helens (1990) 

On the right day, they say you can hear the sound of crunching pickles around the mountain.

He became afraid....he became became very afraid!and then he ate another pickle

Yuh, he made me sick and laugh at the same time. He's at about 2:40 to 2:50. The way he says "EX-plodin" made me laugh. What an Einstein. I wonder if he was there or if he survived and what he said THEN.

Mt. Rainier used to be 16,000 ft. The landslide removed the top 2,000 ft. This created the sunset amphitheater. This landslide was caused by erosion and hydrothermal alteration (turning hard rocks into a soft clay like material weaking it). Hydrothermal alteration happens when water comes into contact with hot materials , such as magma. This ,in turn, caused its largest known mudflow. (Osceola mudflow/lahar.) The weakest part of Mt. Rainier is its NW side. It is currently going through the hydrothermal alteration process today. It will erupt in the future. MT. ST. HELENS landslide was very different. Magma was already in the volcano from its last eruption in 1857. The landslide was caused by magma moving into the volcano pushing the existing magma that was already there outwards. Hence, the bulge. The last eruption came from the Goat Rocks lava dome which fell away on May 18, 1980. Interesting to note that Mt. St. Helens has had at least 3 other Lateral Blasts and Landslides before May 18th. That is how Spirit lake was created. The 3 Lateral Blasts came from the sugar bowl dome, goat rocks dome (removed by the May 18th eruption/landslide), and the east dome. Mt. St. Helens will erupt again ,most likely within the next 3 years. MT. RAINIER not likely to erupt anytime soon. And for comparison, Mt. Rainier is between ~500,000 -750,000 years old. Mt. St. Helens is between ~35,000 - 40,000 years old.

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Like to know whatever happened to that guy.

@@macattack14778 From what I heard he ended up in a real pickle.

​@@macattack14778he is buried under the new spirit lake underneath about 300 feet of debri

I laughed too. Couldn't help it; like a nervous little shriek.

Jim Scymanky is still alive as of 2020 since he was in a National Geographic program that aired last year. There's another St. Helens documentary from the mid-90s where he, his wife, and the helicopter pilot that saved him (who is in this video, here) returned to the mountain. I think I read somewhere participating in it - and putting up memorials for the three colleagues who didn't survive - was a big help in him finding some closure. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rTyqQtq01zg.html

I similarly find it funny that Weyerhaeuser was among the sponsors here, considering they were some of the biggest whiners about the initial ‘red zone’ and risk of an eruption in the first place.

@@patrickcross1571 Weyerhauser's objection to the Red Zone extending into their lands was the main reason why spineless Dixie Lee Ray didn't close off a larger area than they did. Had the eruption happened just a day later thousands of loggers would've been working in the area of complete devastation.

@@YorkVid 'The Fire Below Us', right? That was playing at the Johnson observatory when my family first visited St Helens. That recreation of the blast cloud hitting Scymanky's crew scared the fuck out of me...