Mount St. Helens had been shaking and gurgling and spitting ash for two months. I had been to the volcano’s flanks, flown over it during small eruptions and stood with scientists in the snow at timberline as the ground shook and ash fell around us. Garrels, a 33 year old former skate punk who says he sold drugs in high school, lives in Portland, Ore., with his wife and three young children. His music has earned him an adoring following. He’s been courted repeatedly by what’s known as CCM the con
