Very cool. =3 This is western NM if I recall correctly? Think near Grants? So much to see, so little time. :(

Correct. Near Grants. The ice cave is pretty cool too (pun absolutely intentional)

Fascinating! I really do hope to see one in person someday. :)

Even though it's been extinct for ten thousand years, the volcano is still awesome. I'd love to see an active one some day (just not TOO close up)

Not bad, I don't know why but ever since I was a pup in the 1990s I always wanted to be a volcanologist, and do they stuff they do like going into the craters etc. Probably because I watched Dante's Peak and Volcano then which I think they came out the same year if I remember it right, also remember watching things about Mt. St. Helens in school then too. I don't know why, I always just wanted to have that cool ass truck and drive through the city while it's being destroyed and stuff. lol

When I was a cub in the early 1970s, I subscribed to a monthly thing from the Science Service. One month, there was a book on volcanoes and was I instantly fascinated. I read everything I could find on the subject. After all those decades, this was the first volcano I've ever come close to.

Yeah, I would like to hopefully see Mt. St Helens in the near future, but mostly to see the historical aspects of what it left behind like the Miner's Car and the sunk A-Frame house. I don't know why but I always wished I could have been a photographer after the eruption to see what the volcano left behind. Amazing to see photos of just after it erupted, like the melted dashboard of vehicles and how they got tossed like toys and all the downed trees etc.