Mountain View Monday # 12

Today's picture include three "mountains," with two being real mountains, and the third is a butte in the Mid-Willamette Valley. Let's start off with the third "mountain." Mount Angel is a 485-foot butte located northeast of Salem, Oregon and from whence the town of Mt. Angel was named. Atop its peak, the Mount Angel Abbey, a community of benedictine monks, enjoys a full view of the surrounding landscape.

Behind Mount Angel and to the right is the 8,365-foot Washington mountain known as Mount St, Helens, which blew it's top on May 18th, 1980 at 8:32 am. Further to the right, as well as further north is the 14,409-foot high Mount Rainier. The furthest south in the Willamette Valley that I have seen either of these two Washington mountains is at the location of the photo--east of Salem, along Sunnyview Road and between Hibbard Road NE and 117th Ave NE.