{"id":4916,"date":"2015-06-15T18:29:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T01:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=4916"},"modified":"2015-06-15T18:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T01:36:38","slug":"ape-cave-and-mt-st-helens-2012-day-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=4916","title":{"rendered":"Ape Cave and Mt St Helens, 2012 \u2013 day two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3729_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read<a href=\"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=4918\"> here<\/a> about day one!<\/p>\n<p>Next day we waked up at 5 am to climb Mt Helens. Sun was promised, but unfortunately for us they also add -15C to weather conditions. And it was for town at day time, not for summit with it 2500 meters elevation.<br \/>\nAt 7-30 am we we at Marble Mt Snow Park parking (detailed map in Day Firs post). Elevation is 800 meters. It is really cold! So another hour we had breakfast in the car, filled permits, changed gear and did many other thing to delay out communication with the environment. But at 8-30 we couldn&#8217;t find anything else to do and finally started.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3632_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"546\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is about one hour skiing from parking though the forest. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3633_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But forest is over now and it is Sh Helens ahead of us. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3635_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But sun is shining!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3653_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cloud above the summit become smaller and smaller. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3654_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trace of alone skier is disappeared on fores border and only pure snow ahead of us. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3666_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"573\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From where we came? And for what? <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3674_tofsla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"617\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From here. But the reason is still mystery. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3677_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"554\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the elevation 1500 meters the ice replaced snow. So, we left our skies, put crampons and continued go up. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3686_tofsla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"587\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3688_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"582\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Summit ahead of us:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3699_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The slope is pattern of ice and knee-deep snow. This give fan variation in movements. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"402\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt Adam is behind this cloud. Read about climbing on Mt Adams <a href=\"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=4969\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3696_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"469\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little later the top of Adam appeared. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3711_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View behind us:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3714_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt Hood:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3712_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"445\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are on the crater rim. With view on Mt Rainier. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"292\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3715_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"552\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mt St Helens is very active volcano, it is hot in the crater. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3726_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"557\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/Helens_Panorama11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were on the top at 5 pm. Time to hurry up down. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3730_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"900\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>At 5 pm were on the parking lot. Eleven and half hours for everything. And seven hours more to driving home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/canadaru.net\/bufo_storage\/Blog_photo\/2012\/Travel\/Ape_StHelens\/DSC_3729_helens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read<a href=\"http:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=4918\"> here<\/a> about day one!<\/p>\n<p>Next day we waked up at 5 am to climb Mt Helens. Sun was promised, but unfortunately for us they also add -15C to weather conditions. And it was for town at day time, not for summit with it 2500 <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/?p=4916\">Ape Cave and Mt St Helens, 2012 \u2013 day two<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,400,327,368],"tags":[402,321,481,399,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscreativity.ca\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}