• About 14,500 people a year climb Mount St. Helens though the vast majority — about 13,000 — do so in the summer. • About 1,500 people climb the volcano during the winter season of Nov. 1 to March 31 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Andy Goodwin stationed himself last Saturday at the top of Mount St. Helens, where he usually spends several hours each week educating climbers about one of the Pacific Northwest’s ...

Cowlitz and Skamania sheriff's offices are looking for a missing hiker. Twenty-six-year-old Yosuke Onishi is from Japan. He set out to hike Mount St. Helens on Nov. 27 and hasn't been heard from since ...

Brittany Fintel says she really thought she was dead the moment she slipped. A woman survived the nearly impossible after falling down hundreds of feet while climbing on Mount St. Helens. Brittany ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Two hikers and their three dogs were rescued after getting lost during an outing to Coldwater Lake on the eastern border of Cowlitz County near Mt. St. Helens in Washington, ...