A volcanic community eruption (by Ken Levy)
To add to what yag says in his entry below about community. Ricardo Wenger can also be listed among those names for contributing significantly to the improved community activity at Microsoft (internally and externally). Ricardo is the former group manager of the VFP team (before yag) and now he is the Regional Manager (Americas) for the MVP and Communities team at Microsoft. Ricardo will be a guest speaker at the upcoming VFP DevCon to discuss community activities and information, to interact with the attendees, and to attend the great parties with us.
This past weekend I went to Mount St Helens for the first time, and I’ve lived in Washington 8 years. I went on the road trip with two others, my friends Gary DeWitt (who drove) and Bonnie Berent (.NET MVP). They both live in Ellensburg, WA and they work in Yakima creating software used in the fire/forestry departments. Our main objective was to check out the national park since we had never been there, and to do some outdoor photography. We found that we were the only ones on the closest trail near the north side of the mountain near sunset on Saturday. We did get a few moments of sunshine coming through he clouds to light up the foreground region and part of the mountain. The hole from the 1980 eruption is over a mile across, and is so much more impressive in person than on a TV screen or in a photograph. We got some great photographs, much better than expected, and it was great being the only ones out on that trail since it is still winter season and some roads were closed, no tourists in sight. It was amazing standing in an area that was a forest of trees 25 years earlier and is now barren dirt, rocks, and ash. I took an interesting photo of this one 4 foot tree starting to grow in the middle of a volcanic-made dessert, with the snow covered mountain in the background. It reminded me of a line from the movie Jurassic Park when Jeff Goldbloom says “Life… finds a way”.
Comments
Anonymous
March 18, 2004
Nice story about Mt. St. Helens Ken. I visited there 15 years ago. A very interesting and weird place. Now how about posting the photograph you talked about? < g >Anonymous
March 28, 2004
I went up on the Mt. St. Helen rocky roads on the Fourth of July in 1983. I took some pictures, too. And is was as though I was on the moon, but with plenty of oxygen supplied.
I was in the middle of my 2-year stay in the Beaverton, Oregon area outside of Portland.Anonymous
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