I live right next to a few of those ;)

Now I know what tonight’s nightmare fuel will be….

How have you passed through Washington without ever being in Washington?

Maybe they were in a plane that flew over it?

Never been, but passed through? WTF does that mean?

Nice work. I've lived here all my life and had no idea there were this many active volcanoes to worry about.

I've driven through several states, but I've never visited them enough to actually say I'd been to them.

I’ve lived in Washington and consider myself to be fairly knowledgeable about the state but there was a lot on here I didn’t know, thank you!

This is very cool. I'd buy a print!

Edit to say: In my humble opinion, Glacier is the most worrisome of the group because we know so little (comparatively) about it.

"never been to" to me has a different meaning than physically being in a place. I've passed through Tokyo a number of times on flights and trains, but I'd say I've never BEEN TO Tokyo because I've never been anywhere in the city other than the airport or train station. I've been physically in Tokyo a number of times, but never got to experience the city, so I've never "been to it."

I had a layover in Reykjavik once, but I don’t really count that as having visited Iceland because it was midnight in January and all I saw was the airport.

Wow - nice work. Thanks!

I knew about the five big ones. But didn’t know about the smaller ones.

make it a print!

Amazing!

Schreiber's Meadow is beautiful. Stunning view of the Mount Baker ice cap, fun very close. It's an incredibly short hike up the trail, or the first gorgeous view on the way to Park Butte Lookout and a popular summit route.

If you want barren moonscape, you head to Craters of the Moon in Idaho. Life is making a come back to Mt. St. Helens. There is much green around the mountain these days.

Awesome job!!! There is a minor mistake though, West Crater only has one elevation square when it should have two.

Which one is most likely to blow? Maybe I could chuck a few rocks at it so I can get out of work for a few weeks.

Growing up our living room window had a view of Mount Baker. It wasn’t long after the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. I remember monitoring it every day. If my seven-year-old memories hold true, sometimes you could see what looked like steam coming off the peak.

I went to Mt St Helens a few months back, can definitely confirm life is finding a way! Was neat and surprising seeing fish in Silver Lake.

Why is Mt. Adams described as active but indicated as dormant status?

“Eruption” is misspelled under Mt St Helens.

Thanks for making this. The first five are very famous mountains that I want to see for the first time or see more of, and the last three I have actually never heard of. I really want to visit the Indian Heaven area now.

Also, everyone in the Pacific Northwest should be afraid of the impending doom of Tahoma’s eruption. That’d gonna be a big event if it happens. Hopefully we’d be able to predict it and evacuate.

Thank you. This is great

Ring of fire

Amazing! I'd buy this!

That is outstandingly good! Your legends are excellent. Truly informative poster, and great to look at!

I'm from the East Coast and the tallest mountains are barely a hill compared to what we got here. It's cause they're "retired".

Never knew til I moved out here!

how does one know when a mountain blew'd up?

this is a real question, I would like to know for real cause that's darn interesting that they can nail it down to the year.

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Washington is terrible. Don’t come here!!!

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Most definitely no longer barren around St Helens. Making a solid comeback.

https://imgur.com/a/5hmO0Av/

Old Photo from 1981 and the other was in Popular Science 2020. It doesn’t have big trees surrounding it, but it is getting there slowly.

It’s so beautiful!

And I thought I had summited all of our volcanoes. Shouldn't be too tough to knock out the last 3 tho

Depends how you define it, maybe. From 2004 to 2008 it was incredibly active and has been considered a “slow” eruption. It got a new lava dome and everything.

Isn't Glacier further north and east of... Olympia (where OP's poster has it positioned)?

The Appalachian mountain range is significantly older than the cascades, and have since eroded down to the "hills" we see today

Why is it also described as the largest active volcano in the state? Rainier is bigger and more active right?

Adams is the largest by volume - though not as tall as Rainier, it is made of a greater amount of rock overall.

Of the two, Rainier is more active and poses a much bigger threat to population centers.

The big one was in 1980, but there had been active dome building up until 2008 with the occasional smaller eruption. I recall seeing a few steam plumes from Vancouver in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens#2004_to_2008_activity

There's good hiking in Indian Heaven. It's where I've gone for my last few and I plan on exploring it more in 2023. It's becoming one of my favorite places.

This is cool! Thanks

The landscape around Loowit (my st Helens) is FAR from barren!

It means I never stopped anywhere to do anything, but I was in the state.

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All of the cascades were at one point active volcanoes! When you have an oceanic tectonic plate subducting under a continental tectonic plate then you will get a volcanic mountain range. Washington State is geologically very interesting!

And this is what you do when you’re bored? Must be something to see when you’re inspired!!

I don't know how old you are :), but in 1975, a steam fumarole started shooting steam straight up 1,000 feet out of Sherman Crater at the summit of Mt Baker. It lasted about 10 years, and then died out. In the early 1980s, I was part of a climbing party that climbed up to Mt Baker then, and we rappelled down into Sherman Crater where the fumarole was coming from. It came out of a 4 inch diameter hole and roared like a freight train and shot straight up 1,000 feet. We could walk right up to it. The area around the hole was saturated with yellow sulfur. In addition, the heat had melted out giant caverns under the ice cap in Sherman crater, making ice caves. We spent about an hour exploring them, but they were way bigger than we had time for. The entrance was about 5 feet high and 10 feet wide. Shortly inside, the passage forked. We took the left fork and ended up in a gigantic room the size of a football field with a very high ceiling. Amazing. I am sure after the fumarole stopped, that the caves vanished and were again replaced with solid ice, which is how it is today. So...that's what we were doing up there when you were seven years old :). I am now 78, and by the way still climbing mountains :).

Before Mt St Helens blew, Glacier Peak was listed as the most likely to erupt next. By the way, have climbed all of the Cascade volcanoes over the years. Glacier Peak is about the size of Mt Baker, and is beautiful. Just very very deep in the Cascades and can be seen from only one highway (Highway 20 way up north). One of the glaciers that carved out Lake Chelan came from Glacier Peak :).

I'll second this. It always rains here, and the sun never comes out. You can't believe those picture-postcard images of the Pacific Northwest, they probably were shot in New Zealand or somewhere else where the sun actually shines on beautiful blue water and the mountains glisten with new snow. Yeah that's the ticket, those pictures are made with AI or something. So, yeah, don't come here!!!

I would add for Mt Rainier that with its 36 glaciers, it is the most glaciated peak in all the lower 48 states.

Copy paste error on the last two. West Crater is 4131 ft.

Looking forward to Mt Rainier. Btw good job

Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

St. Helens was an unreal experience for me. looked like the eruption took place only the day before, and yet it had been over 30 years by that point. great trip, minus all the hypothermia and fading from consciousness

I had NO idea that there were more than 5 dormant volcanoes here. I make my students name the five (Baker, Rainier, Adams, St. Helens, and Glacier Peak). I’ve been schooled. Nice work!

i love this, thanks for sharing!

Thanks, I didn't know that Indian heaven was volcanoes! It's a steep hike up to the plateau and then its fairly flat. A very cool natural area with many lakes and ponds.

Love this!

Cool thanks! 😎

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This is so nifty! Thank you for sharing it. 😍🌋

I wouldn’t disagree with this, but I also wouldn’t categorize it as “passing through”.

I didn't know the Indian Heaven area had so many. All I knew was that just south of Indian Heaven Wilderness there's a large lava field called, creatively, Big Lava Bed. I guess it is part of the Indian Heaven volcanic field but not the designated wilderness.

There's a forest road that runs along the east edge of the lava bed. One time I stopped and walked into it a little. It has vegetation and trees but the ground is very obviously a lava bed—very chaotic and rough, can tear up shoes, has sudden deep holes and trenches everywhere. It is very easy to get lost and definitely a bad idea to go in without a navigation plan. I went in only 50 yards or so, and that took a while. Here's a few photos I took: 1, 2, 3.

And here is a topo map of the area. Stands out on a satellite view. Interesting area, if rather dangerous to hike into. The forest isn't too thick, but it's enough to make it very easy to get disoriented.

Semantics, I guess. I wouldn’t disagree that an airport or train station stop wouldn’t qualify as a visit to a specific place, but traveling by train through the countryside on my way to Tokyo would count as being in the region to me.

Glacier Peak can be seen from the Edmonds-Kingston ferry on a clear day. It's not super obvious but is noticeably taller than other peaks in the area and stays white through the summer (at least the part you can see from the ferry).

I noticed that the star for Glacier Peak is placed in the wrong spot, but this info is all pretty great.

I like it!! Nice work! Tumtum Mountain is another small cone volcano near Yacolt that is quite unknown. I didn't know about the field near Bellingham!

I thought I saw on the news or something that Glacier Peak may actually be the most dangerous but Ranier makes total sense

Battle Ground Lake/State Park is a Maar volcano and Beacon Rock/SP is a volcanic plug. Both are part of the Boring volcanic field.

I live near Mt Baker. It is still venting. When atmospheric conditions are right, I can see the steam condensing into wispy clouds rising from Sherman Crater, from as far away as Bellingham. It’s beautiful and a reminder that Mt Baker is still thermally active. Thankfully, it is also still seismically quiet.

That is cool to know, I didn't know that. The next time I'm on that ferry, I'm going to look :). Thanks.

I haven't been up there in a long long time (since the 1980's) so maybe those steam caves are still there? That would be something. I sort of suspect though that it was the furious steam that came out between 1975 and 1985 that sustained the caves. Anyways beautiful mountain, one of my favorites. I've been on top 4 times :). In fact, it was my very first major glaciated peak.

Nick Zentner from the university in Ellensburg has a facinating series of videos on youtube about the geology of the PNW. 10/10 highly recommend.

I actually learned this from his course at CWU! Excellent professor and everyone interested should watch his courses/series. If I had taken that class at the beginning of college I might have become a geology major.

I mean, it's virtually no different from driving through a state and not stopping for anything but gas or food. Just takes longer and the view is a bit higher up. Either way, you're technically visiting the place but not really "visiting" in any meaningful way.

Well after looking into it, with the positive reaction I've got to this stuff I decided to put it on a store last night. Asked the moderation team about it and they OK'd posting a link. I don't want to spam up the subreddit trying to make money, especially one I've never been active in before, so it'll only be here for those who expressed interest:

https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Volcanoes-of-Washington-Poster-by-carolinaphile/136053211.E40HW

Unfortunately I cannot set a price myself.

It'll look fantastic in my office. Thanks for the link and your thoughtfulness about posting the link.

Always had it called Komo Kulshan growing up, not Koma Kulshan, but that just a different romanization of the same name.