This is the view from our home office/guest room/bike storage room. As I work this enthralling vista sits just above my monitor. On clear days you can see a mountain peak up in Washington … kinda.
I’m sure every Portlander worth their high cuffed Carhartt work pants can identify the surrounding peaks instantly but as I’m still wearing my PDX trainee badge I needed to do some internet sleuthing.
Type. Click.
At first I was like, this is Mount Saint Helens the infamous stratovolcano! It sits about 50 miles north of Portland and tops out at 8,300 feet above sea level. Before the eruption it’s height was 9,677 feet, meaning that anyone sitting by this window on May 18th, 1980 could have witnessed the top 1,377 feet of mountain get blasted off.
But as I researched further I began to realize that the pictures don’t match and it doesn’t seem grandiose enough to be Saint Helens. Also it’s maybe a little too far west. So now, with 68% confidence, I’m thinking my office gazes out on Lakeview Peak a 3800 foot prominence of no discernable significance. I’ll update as I learn more.
I yet have yet to earn my work pants.