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Mount Shasta Is A White Mountain Again
Amazingly, Mount Shasta has been receiving a fair amount of snow since August. However, between the heat of summer and the strong winds of autumn, not much snow has been able to accumulate on the...
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One Wild Storm
Powerful winds whip the clouds around the summit of Mount Shasta. Over the last week, the Pacific Northwest has seen some intense winter weather. What some reports considered the equivalent of a class...
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Imprint Of An Arid Land Pt. I
The Canadian River flows through eastern New Mexico’s Mills Canyon. I have wanted to write something along these lines for a long time now. I have always kept HikeMtShasta focused on the Mount Shasta...
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Howling At Echo Point (And The Last Sunrise Of 2024)
The second to last day of 2024 was a beautiful one. The sky was beautifully blue and layers of clouds created visual strata climbing up toward Mount Shasta’s summit. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to stop...
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Mount Shasta 2024 – A Year In Images
Alpenglow, summer snow and wildflowers blanket Mount Shasta. We have now completed the year of our Lord 2024’s orbit around the sun. It has been a very odd year here at the Hike Mt Shasta homestead....
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Nothing Happened Until It Did
January was a strange month. It started off with some storms and then, just like that, it dried up. It was cold but the sky was clear. Only a couple days in the latter 3 weeks of the month had any...
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An Enchanted Land: Truchas Snow
Over the last couple of weeks the Mount Shasta area has hosted a series of heavy storms that have left a heavy deposit of snow. After the exceedingly dry January, this has been a welcome and necessary...
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What Happened To March?
Afternoon light glows on Mount Shasta’s fresh snow. It’s hard to believe March is over. It slipped by so fast that the routine of life – and the dreary weather – hardly made it notable. We had a few...
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Mount Shasta Moon Shadow
The full moon for the month of April rose a few nights ago. A great tool for these kinds of events is Mooncalc, which not only gives all the when and where the moon will rise, its phase and all sorts...
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Cascading Crags
An anonymous waterfall thunders over a precipice, deep in the Castle Crags. Spring is Castle Crags season and April in particular is the best month of the year to venture into the vas granite...
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