St. Helens
Americannoun
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a city in Merseyside, in NW England, near Liverpool.
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Mount, an active volcano in SW Washington, part of the Cascade Range: seven major eruptions during 1980, the first since 1854–57. 8,364 feet (2,549 meters).
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Five and a half miles in the distance, Mount St. Helens rose to a snow-covered peak.
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“I’m thinking it’s St. Helens,” countered Malone, his intuition coming from years working around the mountains.
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A call to the Forest Service ranger station on Mount St. Helens confirmed it.
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There was fresh snow on the ground, and Mount St. Helens was popular with mountain climbers.
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They all knew stories of how Mount St. Helens had erupted in the past.
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