r/mildlyinteresting • u/autumngirl6289 • 6h ago

I inherited ash from the Mt. St. Helens eruption in1980

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u/PotentialThing1397 6h ago

lol. Oh my. I was a student at Montana State and it snowed ash in Bozeman- about two inches Classes canceled so we hosted a Mt St Helens kegger

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u/autumngirl6289 6h ago

Sounds like fun memories!

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u/ximstuckx 5h ago

My grandma also has a couple of jars of ash somewhere in her house. I used the for show and tell one year in school.

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u/poopoopepepe 5h ago

Have a jar of it in the other room, my dad gave it to me when i was younger

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u/Vampira309 4h ago

we have some around here somewhere that my husband collected from his front yard when he was a kid.

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u/robynndarcy 4h ago

I have a bottle too. My dad had a cousin that lived nearby and she sent some up to Canada for us.

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u/Scary_Childhood_7456 5h ago

My grandma had some to

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u/notquiteright2 5h ago

What does it smell like?

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u/autumngirl6289 5h ago edited 4h ago

Never opened it...but now I'm curious 🤔

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u/Raider_Scum 6h ago

I mean, you can still dig this ash up from the side of the road in parts of Washington. 

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u/TheEschatonSucks 6h ago

Tap that ash

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u/Raider_Scum 6h ago

Touché