After a year, Mount St. Helens show still a hot ticket

After a year, Mount St. Helens show still a hot ticket: "After a year, Mount St. Helens show still a hot ticket
Eruption - The mountain continues to ooze lava into its crater since it reawakened last fall
Saturday, September 24, 2005
RICHARD L. HILL

VANCOUVER -- The elegant vapor plume rising from Mount St. Helens on Friday morning was a fitting salute on the first anniversary of the volcano's reawakening.

A year ago, an intense swarm of small earthquakes signaled renewed volcanic unrest after 18 years of quiet. Scientists realized three days later that the shallow quakes weren't like past flurries and issued a warning that Mount St. Helens, the country's most famous volcano, might be gearing up for an outburst.

They were right. After nearly three weeks of nonstop quakes and a few spectacular explosions of steam and ash, magma punched into the crater surface on Oct. 11 -- the official start of an eruption that hasn't quit."