We make an hours ride early Monday morning and to be honest I've been looking forward to this part of the trip since I booked to go.
Again we ride up on the Interstate I5 and turn on to the 504 which is the link to the national Volcano Monument Observatory.
The 504 is spectacular, slowly winds its way up the mountain and as it was relatively early we had it all to ourselves!! Farther you travel along it dawns on you how catastrophic the eruption had been! the road was nearly 40 miles long from the I5 to the monument and authorities had preserved the hillsides as they were after the volcano blew! Trees of all sizes littered the surrounding mountains and local area The blast up rooted and snapped massive trees like matchsticks! amazing to see.
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The visitors centre is positioned directly in front and a 1/4mile from the crater! Unfortuanely the weather was teasing us and the cloud cover wouldn't unveil the top of the mounting so we could see the crater
What we could see was the valley floor and the aftermath of the laver and mud flows! The forest was now covered with 600ft of lava the sight front the observation point was impossible to comprehend.
The summit of the volcano is just hiding behind the cloud cover!
Every tree strip from its roots and the grass root system stripped back to the rock
The clouds just hiding the top
This tree was 14km from the eruption you can see the direction of the blast by the two shattered parts above the womans head!! This is all thats left everything above it was obliterated into splinters of which became projectiles!! all the trees within the area where felled by the blast!
A bulldozer filled with the trees splinters!!
Anyway enough of the history lesson for now!
We headed north again to the Us/Canadian Border crossing at Lyndon
We managed to get the most miserable border guard imaginable! He was quality..
Good Morning
"Plates"
Pardon!
"Plates your Vehicle Registeration Number?"
OK
"Passport"
OK
"Nature of your trip?"
Vacation
"Where you heading?"
Canada then Alaska
"What do you do for a living"
I work for myself
"Doing"
Steel Work
"Got any Guns"
No
"Pass through"
Thank you
We on up headed up on the I5 north before jumping on the 101 to Port Townsend with the intention of catching a ferry across the "juan de fuca Strait" to Oak harbour a twenty minute crossing that made the day complete
345miles with a stop over at Burlington.
Lots of Interest from the locals
Our own little part of the ferry
Oak Harbour
Not a bad end to the day I'd say!
We managed to get the most miserable border guard imaginable! He was quality..
Good Morning
"Plates"
Pardon!
"Plates your Vehicle Registeration Number?"
OK
"Passport"
OK
"Nature of your trip?"
Vacation
"Where you heading?"
Canada then Alaska
"What do you do for a living"
I work for myself
"Doing"
Steel Work
"Got any Guns"
No
"Pass through"
Thank you
We on up headed up on the I5 north before jumping on the 101 to Port Townsend with the intention of catching a ferry across the "juan de fuca Strait" to Oak harbour a twenty minute crossing that made the day complete
345miles with a stop over at Burlington.
Our own little part of the ferry
Oak Harbour
Not a bad end to the day I'd say!
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