For many, the word “eruption” brings to mind 1980 when Mount Saint Helens demonstrated that the Washington Cascades are one of the most volcanically active parts of the country. Mount Saint ...

Mount Adams, the long-dormant volcano in Southwest Washington, recently experienced some unusual seismic activity, and the USGS is stepping up their monitoring, which seemed like the perfect ...

Adams lies 34 miles due east of Mount St. Helens. Although not as tall as Mount Rainier, it is larger in volume and the most massive composite cone in the Cascades. It last erupted over 1,000 ...

Among the snow-capped volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Adams gets relatively little love. There are more glamorous volcanoes to climb (Mount Rainier) or to ski (Mount Hood) or that have ...

Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. All five have a threat level of either "very high" or "high," according to the ...

Unlike walk-up peaks such as Mount Adams (12,276 feet) and Mount St. Helens (8,330 feet), a Rainier climb requires mountaineering gear and glacier-travel skills. Potential hazards, from icefall to ...

These include Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams in Washington State; and Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Three Sisters, Newberry, and Crater Lake in Oregon.

At Mount St. Helens and Mount Rainier, we’ll get somewhere between 10 and 20 earthquakes a month. The volcanoes in the Cascades talk to us all the time. Mount Adams generally is fairly quiet.