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Mount Saint Helens - 1 October 2016

Some coworkers and I failed to summit Mount Saint Helens on a miserable day.

Unfortunately, you need a permit to climb Saint Helens, and our permits were only valid on this horribly rainy/snowy day. After hiking through the woods for a couple miles, you reach the scrambling portion of the hike. There are posts to follow, and these posts are close together at the bottom. As we gained elevation, it started to snow. Some scientific equipment around 7000'. Following the posts become more challenging as we gained elevation. We would find a post, blindly hike uphill for a couple minutes, then find another post. You can sort of see how bad the visibility is here. The last portion of the hike didn't have posts to follow, so we had to turn back, as we would have clearly gotten lost. We were soaked at the end of the hike, but we survived.
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