On a sunny afternoon in May 1980, Carolyn Driedger and Mindy Brugman pulled up to Coldwater II, an outpost for United States Geological Survey researchers on a ridge near Mount St. Helens in Washington.
For the last five weeks or so—after a century-plus of dormancy—the volcano seemed to be waking up. Driedger, a glaciologist at the Survey, had joined Brugman, a doctoral student studying glaciers on St. Helens, to collect data on the Shoestring glacier and see how its behavior changed as volcanic activity increased.
The pair had planned to stay the night and catch a helicopter ride out to the glacier first thing in the morning. But David Johnston, a sandy-haired geologist who had been stationed there for weeks, told them to pack up. He believed the recent increase in activity—some small earthquakes and minor eruptions—could be a harbinger of something bigger: that St. Helens could erupt and the entire north side of the volcano would fall away. "We should have as few people here as possible," Johnston said before advising the dejected researchers to stay in Vancouver, Washington—almost a two-hour drive away—for the night and return the next day. |
On a sunny afternoon in May 1980, Carolyn Driedger and Mindy Brugman pulled up to Coldwater II, an outpost for United States Geological Survey researchers on a ridge near Mount St. Helens in Washington.
For the last five weeks or so—after a century-plus of dormancy—the volcano seemed to be waking up. Driedger, a glaciologist at the Survey, had joined Brugman, a doctoral student studying glaciers on St. Helens, to collect data on the Shoestring glacier and see how its behavior changed as volcanic activity increased.
The pair had planned to stay the night and catch a helicopter ride out to the glacier first thing in the morning. But David Johnston, a sandy-haired geologist who had been stationed there for weeks, told them to pack up. He believed the recent increase in activity—some small earthquakes and minor eruptions—could be a harbinger of something bigger: that St. Helens could erupt and the entire north side of the volcano would fall away. "We should have as few people here as possible," Johnston said before advising the dejected researchers to stay in Vancouver, Washington—almost a two-hour drive away—for the night and return the next day. |
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