Archive Photo of the Day: Independence Pass

Indy Pass, originally uploaded by The Bacher Family.

A sunrise shot of Mt. St. Helens, June 1988. I worked as a ranger at Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument during the summers of 1988 and 1989. The first summer, our staff camped out at Independence Pass for a night during training. Our camp that morning was inside a cloud, but I climbed up to the top of a nearby bluff to get this shot of the light just rimming the top of the mountain at sunrise.