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Richard "Dick" Lasher was on his way to drive his dirt bike when Mount St Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.
He spent the Saturday night packing some gear figuring he would head out first thing in the morning to get a look at the mountain.
His plan was hitching his Yamaha IT enduro bike to the back of his Pinto, driving up to Spirit Lake, then exploring the area via dirt forest roads on the bike.
Lasher drove down toward Spirit Lake from the north, likely dropping down from U.S. 12 and the town of Randle into the forest roads of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
He possibly made it as far south as Forest Road 26 by 8:32 that morning of May 18.
The time the volcano blew.
And if he had made it to the lake, he would almost certainly have died. The sheer force of the blast lifted the lake out of its bed and propelled it about 85 stories into the air to splash onto adjacent mountain slopes.
Luckily for him, and he did not realize until later just how lucky, he was on the opposite side of that ridge in front, because the entire forest was flattened from the ridge down, and he was in the lee side and protected from most of the blast.
That's the photo: a red Ford Pinto with a blue dirt bike hitched to its bumper, angled across a forest road.
OpenAI has announced plans to let users “securely connect” ChatGPT to their bank accounts through Plaid.
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