Mt. Redoubt Spews, Rumbles, Grumbles And Spreads Dirty Ash

March 29, 2009

Photos and text by Al Remington

I arrived – Ninilchik – about 2:00pm and watched a puff or two and then the big one at 3:30. It loaded the drink with heavy stuff – headed for Achorage and Girdwood. It was like a windy snowy night with fair visibility by the time I came thru 4 hours later, except everything blowing was brown and the fresh snow-fall from last night turned the same…

The high stuff at 30,000ft made it to anchorage. I made a respirator out of a paper-towel in Girdwood.

I thought I was ok in Ninilchik but from early morn. until 3:00pm the upper winds shifted again from blowing it on Homer, to blowing it away from Homer towards, cough, cough-home.

The ground did some quivering here and there. I kept my eyes on the birds, too.

Mt. Redoubt - Alaska 3/28/2009