We were on our way up to my dad's cabin (Marble Mountain) which is about 5 miles south as the crow flies from St. Helens. We were some of the very few that got to enter the "Red Zone". Luckily, we had just made it out to about Amboy when the mountain blew that morning, makes a guy wonder if it would have blown an hour later considering that's how far we were from the mountain at the time... I probably wouldn't be here telling the story.

I still remember getting back up to the cabin and having 4-6" of ash covering everything! Tons of pumise of to 5" in diameter as well!

Keith