Hiker Joseph Bohlig dies after falling into volcano [Mt. St. Helens, WA]

Herald and Weekly Times ^ | Wednesday, February 17, 2010 | Staff Report

[Star Traveler]

Well..., I've been there at this car. The occupants of that car never made it out from the eruption at Mt. St. Helens that day... ooops...

[SJSAMPLE]

Well played, Sir.

[sportutegrl]

Will Gaia be pleased or must we still pay for our collective sins with global warming?

It depends. Was the hiker a virgin?

[Star Traveler]

Sorry about the foreign language here, but this is a good graph of the ashfall from May 18, 1980.

Note the yellow dot in Oklahoma. I believe that is ashfall from the "initial punch" in the sky when the eruption first started and it made it all the way over to around Tulsa, Oklahoma (which is where I'm at now).

That initial punch would have been the most violent, and then after that initial punch, it would have roared on for the rest of the day, at a high volume, but never reaching Oklahoma again...

[goodnesswins]

Hmmmmm....We climbed to the top of the rim in about 1990/91 during early summer...sat near the rim eating lunch....climbing in winter...I don’t think is such a great idea....didn’t know you had to have a permit now.

[Star Traveler]

Spirit Lake in its prettier days...

[bgill]

He should have thrown some Orange Crush over the ledge first.

[Star Traveler]

[Star Traveler]

Actually, I always heard that one had to have a permit to climb on the mountain, afterwards... don’t know for sure, though...

[Star Traveler]

I don’t know, but there’s that saying that comes to mind... about climbers...

“There are old climbers and there are bold climbers, but there are no old, bold climbers”...

And so, there have been many people lost in that past-time... of mountain climbing. I remember one time there was a warm summer in Oregon and the snow pack had melted back more than it had in many years... and they found the body of a climber that had been lost about 20 or 30 years prior — his body exposed for the first time as the snows melted away from it, that summer. I think it was somewhere around the Three Sisters area or Three Fingered Jack, but I can’t remember exactly.

[boop]

I rremember reading about a similar situation in Europe when melting snow revealed the dead bodies of people lost decades before. Literally frozen in time, with what was state of the art equipment at the time.

[Star Traveler]

First few seconds of Mt. St. Helens eruption

[traderrob6]

That guy looks like Abe Vigoda.

[Star Traveler]

I think they’ve also found a body (or maybe more) from ancient times, too (in the Alps)... also showing what they had back then. This was like maybe, “cave-men days” or something like that... :-)

[b4its2late]

WOW

[Star Traveler]

What you're seeing in that picture is the very beginning of that #2 in the drawing here...

[AuH2ORepublican]

“Hiker Joseph Bohlig dies after falling into volcano”

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That’ll do it. Hikers should take note: avoid falling into volcanoes.

[Star Traveler]

Just about a second before that other picture... the very, very beginning.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

That’ll do it. Hikers should take note: avoid falling into volcanoes.

It wasn't like falling into Kilauea (in Hawaii). There's not a pool of lava down there... LOL...

He survived the fall. What he didn't survive was exposure to the cold, overnight.

[Star Traveler]

This isn't like smoke coming out of a chimney at home... :-) ... this eruption is pushing boulders the size of cars and houses out of that crater with enough force to toss them off the mountain and out a ways... hoo-boy!

This is a violent eruption that went on for about nine hours straight without any let-up...