Day 1: Thirty years ago, I earned my place in the annals of climbing by becoming the last woman known to have climbed Mt. St. Helens before the area was closed to public use. Had I known then what I know now...that as I wrote and sketched in my journal, I was sitting atop an area which would be first to show evidence of ash emission and melt...I might have been even less comfortable in the undeniably harsh winter conditions on the summit. Today as I walked the trail below the lower lip of the crater, the tears sprang to my eyes, remembering not only Loo-wit in her former glory, but also my late husband who made his last ascent of any peak on that day.
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