May 28, 2017 St Helens Beta request

???We have a permit for St Helens in 2 days. Rather than sleep in the parking lot the night before we were thinking of hiking up a thousand feet or so and pitching a tent. Any thoughts about this plan?

This is posted in the wrong forum.

Still, this plan is fine. There's ample camping space essentially anywhere on Mt St Helens.

Thanks and mea culpa

FYI - I moved this topic to Research Questions here.

Also, I think hiking up a ways and then camping would be great.