Mt. St. Helens souvenirs
When I was in Cub Scouts (or maybe it was Webelos at that time), our scout master gave everyone in the troop little, clear plastic containers (like size of a roll of 35mm film) of Mt. St. Helens ash. I kept it for the longest time, but I think it's long gone now. Always thought that was such a neat memento.
@billturner the difference is that Cub Scouts fall down when they wobble
For years I used Mt. St. Helens ash to make a cone 10 glaze. It was great, all it needed was a clay body for opacity (I used Ball Clay) and a colorant (I used tin) made a gorgeous Bristol White and was crazy cheap.
@1f2frfbf whoa, that's super cool!
@williwaw I'm glad i kept it around all this time, luckily i have it in a reasonably sturdy jar.
@williwaw I'm glad i kept it around all this time, luckily i have it in a reasonably sturdy jar.
In a weird way, that jar of ash is also a souvenir from my parent's divorce. In retrospect, I think the only reason we were on that trip at all is because my mom needed to visit her parents and shop for a house ahead of us kids moving with her later that summer (she wasn't with us in Oregon), and my dad likely wanted to have a vacation with us kids before we moved out of state with mom.
and C) I missed Mt. St Helens and even as a little kid was SO SAD I missed it when people talked about how the ash made it all the way to Wyoming (nothing like this, tho.) When Yellowstone burned in 1988 (36% of it!) everyone talked about how the ash on their cars and porches reminded them of when Mt. St. Helens erupted. So after Black Saturday when 150k acres burned in one day and the ash was really bad, I scraped up a bunch of ash from a windshield, put it in a jelly jar, and with my looney toon kid ass mind labeled it "Mt. St Helens ash," then took it to school to show off this "volcanic ash" with obvious pine needles and bark in it that smelled like a forest fire to a bunch of kids who lived in the same place I did.
So D) SUPER JEALOUS
NEAT!!!