September 19-22, 2013 – Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Silver Lake Area
Thursday morning was again overcast but it was not raining as we left Seaview. We drove west along the Columbia River to Longview and then turned north on I-5 to Silver Lake. We are staying at Silver Cove RV Resort, a very nice resort on Silver Lake. The sites here are large and are all gravel but there is a lot of grass behind all the sites. The loops in this resort are laid out along small canals. We are backed into a site that has a very large grassy area with trees between us and a canal. It is a lot better view than the back of another 5 th wheel a few feet away like we had at the last resort. It was nice a sunny and warm when we arrived but the ladies in the office told us to enjoy the sun as it is suppose to rain for the next several days. After we got set up and ate a late lunch we drove to the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center operated by the Washington State Parks. We watched a short film and walked through...