Yurt-ing with Mt St Helens

September 26, 2017

Yurt-ing with Mt St Helens

WARNING: MANY PICS!

This past weekend was spent at Mt St Helens National Park. We stayed in a yurt for the first time. The weather was nice, a little cool in the evenings and morning but overall pleasant. I wasn't sure how the weather would be mid-Sept so we decided to book a yurt instead of a tent campsite. It had electricity, heat and beds so it was better than sleeping in a tents. I enjoyed having the "little cabins". The kids had fun because two other families joined us so they enjoyed running around with their friends.

Inside the yurt had bunk beds and a double bed we put our sleeping bags on. The girls did puzzles and we read a "Little House on the Prairie" before bed... nostalgia for me!

Outside of the yurt there was plenty of fires, hot chocolate, s'mores, roasting, deer spotting, running, conversations, and hammock-ing

including teeny tiny marshmallow roasting

Levi getting some pointers from Dad and helping with the fire

On Saturday we went from Seaquist State Park where we were camping across the street to the Mt St Helen's Visitor center and took a small hike around the wet lands.

I wore my 8 year old hiking boots but never got off pavement or boardwalk....

Then we drove the 40 miles from the visitor center to Johnston Ridge Observatory for a closer look and more history on the volcano. It is named after David Johnston a volcanologist who died the day it erupted, May 18, 1980 along with 56 other people who had not evacuated the park. I loved hearing the history from the Forest Ranger.