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1. Cascade Mountain Peaks

Cascade Mountain Peaks

Description: 227 mile airplane view of mountains. Photo shows South Sister, Middle Sister, North Sister, Mt. Washington, Three Finger Jack, Mt. Jefferson, Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Rainier.

2. Dr. John Baross, a researcher at Oregon State University, taking samples to study from an area near the Mount St. Helens eruption site

Dr. John Baross, a researcher at Oregon State University, taking samples to study from an area near the Mount St. Helens eruption site

3. Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, and Mt. St. Helens

Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, and Mt. St. Helens

Description: A fine view of three snow capped peaks. These mountains may be seen from Portland and from many points on a trip over the Mt. Hood Loop.

4. Mt. St. Helens from the south

Mt. St. Helens from the south

5. Tree "tunnel" in lava - St. Helens

Tree "tunnel" in lava - St. Helens

6. Tree cast in lava - St. Helens

Tree cast in lava - St. Helens

7. Petrified trees in lava

Petrified trees in lava

8. Another view of St. Helens from Spirit Lake

Another view of St. Helens from Spirit Lake

Description: Being farther north than Mt. Hood, Mt. St. Helens retains somewhat more of its snowy whiteness in summer; but there is a place near the summit which is always kept bare of its internal volcanic heat. The slopes by St. Helens are steeper than those of Hood, and its conical shape is beautifully symmetrical and smoothly rounded as compared with the more rugged Hood, which gives it a feminine appearance. The Indians have a legend that when St. Helens, Hood and Adams were created, they were big women who had one husband in common. The result was jealousy, and a fight in which St. Helens whipped Hood and the other mountains, and made slaves of them. In this legend the Indians did not, I think, show their usual poetic imagination. The lovely rounded, and regular appearance of St. Helens should have suggested a legend in which this mountain was made the wife of the more irregular, muscular, and sinewy Hood.

9. Mt. St. Helens, Rainier and Adams from top of Hood

Mt. St. Helens, Rainier and Adams from top of Hood

Description: There is hardly a place in Western Oregon or Washington, elevated above the level of the forests, whence one does not enjoy a superb view of from one to six isolated snow mountains. This isolation must be again and again emphasized, not only because to it these Oregon and Washington mountains owe their individuality and unique grandeur but also because the view from any one of these isolated peaks is much more striking and comprehensive than a mountain view in ranges where the peaks are grouped closely together. ----Henry T. Finch.

10. Mt. St. Helens from Spirit Lake, Washington

Mt. St. Helens from Spirit Lake, Washington

Description: This mountain is so prominent an object as seen from the streets of Portland, that tourists are apt to fancy that it must be an Oregon mountain like Hood.