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Just Some Pictures Of Another Sunrise On Mount Shasta
Clouds speed past Mount Shasta as the morning light highlights the mountains western ridges. I don’t have much to say with this post, other than to express my gladness that we have returned to the...
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A Lenticular Near Miss Still Yields A Tremendous Sunset
A lenticular tries to form above Mount Shasta. It would dissipate moments later. Looking at the forecast a few days ago, I knew that the weather systems passing through the area meant there would be...
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Surprise! Awesome Clouds Produce Wet Weather
As is so often the case, spectacular cloud formations around Mount Shasta often end up bringing rain and snow. The clouds present at yesterday’s tremendous sunrise proved true to this observation. The...
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A Spectacular Sunrise Is Followed By A Spectacular Sunset…Just Not On Mount...
A small lenticular cloud highlights a glorious Mount Shasta sunrise. On the cusp of a big change in weather systems, Mount Shasta often manifests its fantastic lenticular clouds. This morning was no...
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Mount Shasta NON-Lenticualar Cloud Gallery
As the sun rises, Mount Shasta cast a massive shadow on the clouds above. Anyone who has followed this site for a while knows about my preoccupation with lenticular clouds. These unique clouds are...
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A Break In The Storm And A Mount Shasta Moonrise
Sunset moonrise over Mount Shasta. The rainy weather of the last few days broke last night and it was nice a clear today. Mount Shasta looks beautiful in a mantle of fresh snow. I got up early this...
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A Spectacular Week Around Mount Shasta
A stunning lenticular cloud coalesces around the summit of Mount Shasta. Christmas is nearly a week behind us and it has been a fun week of heading out on a few early mornings and some beautiful...
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Mount Shasta 2018: A Year In Images
The atmosphere around Mount Shasta seems to glow on a gorgeous December morning. Here in Mount Shasta, the year of our Lord 2018 was another beautiful circuit around the sun. The mountain remained...
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Towers At Sunset And An Almost Lenticular
The summits of Mount Shasta and Shastina bathed in alpenglow. Sometimes even when things don’t quite pan out, Mount Shasta still presents some overwhelming beauty. This was certainly the case this...
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A Turbulent, Fascinating Phenomenon On Mount Shasta
The darker it got, the more definition the lenticular took on. It remained a striking spectacle. A lenticular cloud floats above a large wave over Mount Shasta. Last Sunday featured an excellent...
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December Was A Gorgeous Month Around Mount Shasta
I don’t want to go to far into 2019 without pausing to look back at the last month of 2018 and recognize just how beautiful it was here in Mount Shasta. We didn’t get much snow but the mountain was...
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We Finally Got A Good Dose Of Snow In Mount Shasta
Black Butte presides over a wintry scene. We got a little snow here in Mount Shasta over the weekend. Saturday started off blustery but dry and not a speck of snow on the ground. By the end of the day...
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Heavy Rain, Melting Snow And Awesome Mount Shasta
Thursday morning at Mount Shasta. It was obscured from the south but the north offered a nice view. While it snowed over the weekend, the last few days have seen a heavy rain in the low areas around...
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After Dance Lessons, One Fine Evening In Mount Shasta
Awesome winter light, fresh snow and a lenticular cloud make for a spectacular mountain. The storm that dumped snow and drenched the area in a deluge of rain having passed, today revealed a stark...
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36 Hours In The Life Of A Mount Shasta Lenticular
Shadow and light dance around the lenticular above Mount Shasta. The last 36 hours have seen some extraordinary lenticular activity around Mount Shasta. The clouds that formed around the mountain,...
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Some Interesting Goings-On In The Shasta Valley
I had not planned on posting any more images of, well, anything around Mount Shasta until next weekend. I actually have a few hiking blog posts to put up, rather than the usual weather blogging I tend...
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2019 Mount Shasta Winter Hiking Round Up
Winter sunrise on Mount Shasta. The winter season of 2018-2019 has been with us for a few months now. The cold has been consistent but the precipitation has been more erratic. That being the case, we...
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Castle Dome: Steadfast And Staggering
The awesome east face of Castle Dome catches the light of the rising sun. After Mount Shasta, the Castle Crags are the most stunning feature in this part of California. The rugged collection of...
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Mount Shasta, The Castle Crags And The 1838-42 United States Exploring...
Mount Shasta from the west. This was the unlikely perspective of the first known depiction of the mountain. In my last post on Castle Dome, I included an image of the first known representation of...
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It’s Icy Up On Mount Shasta
Winter light baths a very frozen Mount Shasta. After a week of solid precipitation, the clouds finally parted and Mount Shasta was, at seemingly long last, revealed to its admirers once again. It...
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