Playboy After Hours
September, 1980
Mountain GirlWhen Mount St. Helens began blowing its top a few months back, a group of ritual-minded citizens decided to try to calm the volcano by offering it a human sacrifice--almost. Grounded at Kelso Airport in Kelso, Washington, were the Sandbaggers, a maverick bunch hailing from the Longview Chamber of Commerce. Their plan was to drop a plastic female mannequin from an airplane into the volcano. Why a dummy and not a real live girl? Said Chamber director Tom Manning, the dummy was in keep...