I remember the eruption as it darkened the skies in Saskatoon and dropped a thin film of ash on everything. As a young teen it didn't really register at the time how big a deal the eruption was but later when the National Geographic issues my parents subscribed to began to arrive and really dissect the eruption with colour maps I came to appreciate the magnitude of the eruption. I think of that still when I fly in the Pacific Northwest and glimpse the snowy peaks out the aircraft window.