While it doesn’t afford a view of the cataclysmic 1980 eruption, the south side of Mount Saint Helens still has so much to offer. June Lake was created about 2000 years ago by a mudflow from another eruption. It boasts a 70 foot waterfall over an old basalt flow, flanked by old growth confers. We extended our hike to chocolate falls (though it was dry), and had a difficult scramble over the bare worm flows: streams of hard lava that have crumbled into boulder fields. ~5.5 mile hike all told, and the slowest going was over those worm flows.
