Return to Spirit Lake Life and Landscape at Mount St Helens Christine Colasurdo 9781887853323 Books
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Few natural disasters can match a volcanic eruption for the total destruction of a familiar landscape. Journalist Christine Colasurdo first visited Spirit Lake, which is at the base of Mount St. Helens, in Washington State as a child in 1970. When her parents purchased a cabin there in 1977, Colasurdo planned to make the area her permanent home. The volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980 not only destroyed a beloved setting, but permanently ended Colasurdo's plans for living and working at Spirit Lake. Her work is a graceful blend of personal observations (pre- and post-eruption), scientific documentation of volcanic activity, and the earlier-than-expected regeneration of life and landscape. An active environmentalist, Colasurdo addresses the effects of logging and reseeding in the area. Her book is a testament to the resilience of both landscape and human spirit.
Return to Spirit Lake Life and Landscape at Mount St Helens Christine Colasurdo 9781887853323 Books
Christine Colasurdo's book is a fascinating meditation on Mount St. Helens, including the time she spent with her family on Spirit Lake before the eruption and the many trips she made to the mountain and environs after the eruption. Her writing rings like crystal-clear, true and with a lovely bell sound. Her return was seeking that which was lost, and she found a great deal in the aftermath.Christine and her sister visited several locations many years after the eruption. The author compares the cold deep lake and her goose-bumped skin and huckleberry stained fingers after a dip, to the brown, shallow water that remains, spawning cattails and marshy seeps and brackish smells. The contrast is stark. On another excursion Christine descends with a party into the crater of Mount St. Helens in July, 1995. They crossed the Pumice Plain on the Truman Trail, noting the Spillover and then into the Breach to Step Creek Falls and on to the volcano within the volcano-the dome. As a reader, I am with her every step of the way. Even the crumbling crater walls worried me.
I climbed the mountain around 1975 and could look down to the some of the scenes she describes. Because her descriptions are so detailed, I can see now in my mind's eye what I could not see then, and what I have never seen after the mountain exploded in1980. When Mount St. Helens erupted, I was traveling by car from Kennewick to Seattle with my fiance, and we were caught in the ashfall that turned day into night. It was a frightening experience. Ms. Colasurdo takes the experience of the eruption and the aftermath and turns it into a lesson of regeneration and renewal, including her extensive research and sources for much of the scientific knowledge gained over the years since 1980.
The land renews itself as do plants and animals in the blast zone. What the author makes clear are the new discoveries and the old remnants, both symbolized in the wildflower, pearly everlasting.
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Return to Spirit Lake Life and Landscape at Mount St Helens Christine Colasurdo 9781887853323 Books Reviews
Christine Colasurdo's book is a fascinating meditation on Mount St. Helens, including the time she spent with her family on Spirit Lake before the eruption and the many trips she made to the mountain and environs after the eruption. Her writing rings like crystal-clear, true and with a lovely bell sound. Her return was seeking that which was lost, and she found a great deal in the aftermath.
Christine and her sister visited several locations many years after the eruption. The author compares the cold deep lake and her goose-bumped skin and huckleberry stained fingers after a dip, to the brown, shallow water that remains, spawning cattails and marshy seeps and brackish smells. The contrast is stark. On another excursion Christine descends with a party into the crater of Mount St. Helens in July, 1995. They crossed the Pumice Plain on the Truman Trail, noting the Spillover and then into the Breach to Step Creek Falls and on to the volcano within the volcano-the dome. As a reader, I am with her every step of the way. Even the crumbling crater walls worried me.
I climbed the mountain around 1975 and could look down to the some of the scenes she describes. Because her descriptions are so detailed, I can see now in my mind's eye what I could not see then, and what I have never seen after the mountain exploded in1980. When Mount St. Helens erupted, I was traveling by car from Kennewick to Seattle with my fiance, and we were caught in the ashfall that turned day into night. It was a frightening experience. Ms. Colasurdo takes the experience of the eruption and the aftermath and turns it into a lesson of regeneration and renewal, including her extensive research and sources for much of the scientific knowledge gained over the years since 1980.
The land renews itself as do plants and animals in the blast zone. What the author makes clear are the new discoveries and the old remnants, both symbolized in the wildflower, pearly everlasting.
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