Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 16—Washington residents are invited to celebrate the new year with Washington State Parks during the First Day Hikes events ...

Let's give those of you who are curious about the Mt. St. Helens Club, a sneak peek of what a hike with our group entails. At the meetup point, a lone hike leader arrives and surveils the skies to ...

Later this summer, the Mount St. Helens Institute will offer guided hikes featuring up-close views of the glacier and the inside of the crater. The Crater Glacier View Climb takes participants close ...

The following are the scheduled upcoming Mt. St. Helens Club hikes. New members should call the hike leader listed before their first hike. More information about the club can be found at ...

Clifton Perkins had heard that the road to the Johnston Ridge Observatory was open, so he brought his family there from Puyallup, Wash., on Presidents' Day. When the family encountered a closed gate 9 ...

Washington is renowned for its dramatic hiking experiences: alpine lakes framed by sky-high peaks, mossy forests, and panoramic views that show off the entire Pacific Coast. But while these bucket ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, the landscape changed in an instant—the geologic version of an instant, anyway. It was the deadliest eruption the United States had ever seen, leveling ...