Few events in recent Pacific Northwest history are recalled as vividly as the eruption of Mount St. Helens back on May 18, 1980.
While earthquakes and windstorms have come along in the intervening years and made their own natural disaster marks on the region, the presence of an active volcano in our midst three decades ago left indelible images for thousands of people that remain to this day.
One of those people with particularly vivid memories, and who also happens to be responsible for capturing some of the most indelible images (Mount St. Helens eruption gallery), is former Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Grant Haller. Haller was on duty for the P-I that fateful Sunday morning more than 30 years ago.
St. Helens had come back to life with a minor eruption in late March 1980, and Haller had taken photographs of the symmetrical peak's reawakening and the flurry of human activity in and around the "red zone," an area of restricted access ringing the mountain.
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