Ring of Fire is a series running on The Inertia thanks to filmer Nick Cahill and his team’s monumental efforts to tackle as many of the volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California as they can in 30 days, while road-tripping in Nick’s blue converted school bus. Episode five took us to Mt. Jefferson in northern Oregon, where Danny teamed up with a couple of ripping lady shredders, and Mt. Adams in Washington where some of the best turns of the project were had.
Episode six takes us to Mount. St. Helens, which was a party wave to say the least. Jamie Vincent and Amanda Hankison, two of the ripping ladies who joined for Jefferson and Adams, continue north with Danny and Nick. They’re joined by a couple more friends (one of whom is *gasp* a skier) to experience the iconic worm flows of the volcano, which were formed during the 1980 eruption that was the deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history.
Just one. more step. Photo: Nick Cahill.
“It’s crazy to be standing on a volcano that has erupted in your parent’s lifetime,” says Nick. “You’re walking up, smelling the sulphur, seeing the smoke coming out, and it’s like ‘this could happen at any moment…’ It’s pretty scary. But as soon as you strap on the snowboard and turn around, it all goes away, thankfully. You think maybe you can outrun it, but that’s probably not true.”
