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Yosemite Week: The Most Spectacular Trail
Tenaya Canyon, Half Dome and Vernal and Nevada Falls from Glacier Point. Not a bad view from the trailhead. Yosemite Week on Hike Mt Shasta has been a lot of fun for me write and has been a good...
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Appreciating Mount Shasta’s Brewer Creek: Oasis On The East Side
Brewer Creek flows down the lonely eastern flank of Mount Shasta. With nearly 20 miles of base diameter, Mount Shasta is nearly a mountain range unto itself. It’s ridges and canyons are the equal of...
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A Quality August Lenticular On Mount Shasta
The summer months tend to be the least active when it comes to lenticular clouds over Mount Shasta. However, the most consistently productive has been the month of August. The best summer lenticulars...
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My Four Favorite Vistas On Mount Shasta
A spectacular view of Mount Shasta, Mud Creek Canyon and Mud Creek Falls. It goes without saying that Mount Shasta is an incredibly scenic mountain. Hiking on it almost guarantees incredible views and...
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A Return To The Mountain After A Long Period Of Detachment
Sunset on Mount Shasta. September has been one of the strangest months I have experienced in a long time. It has not been since August that I have been inclined to pull out my camera and capture some...
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Autumn In Arizona
A maple highlights the fall color along the West Fork of Oak Creek. My wife and I have always enjoyed an autumn trip to close out the summer season. For us it has marked the end of the prime hiking...
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Seldom Seen: 2020’s Rarely Observed Waterfalls And Cascades Of The Mount...
An epic view of New Coquette Falls and Mount Shasta. I am not sure how it happened, but somehow 2020 became the year of the seldom seen waterfall. At least this was the case in where and to what I was...
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Just Some Pictures of Autumn In Mount Shasta
An autumn lenticular, among the first large ones of the season, caps Mount Shasta. With winter weather nearing, I spent most of the last warm weather getting everything stowed for the winter and...
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A Morning And Evening Around Mount Shasta
Sunrise on Mount Shasta. Lase week we had a decent spot of precipitation roll through the Mount Shasta area. Snow fell at elevations slightly above town and winter felt like it was finally starting to...
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Another Morning And Evening Around Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta alight at dawn while fog covers the Strawberry Valley. A couple of days ago I posted some images I had taken during a morning trip up to Bunny Flat along with a shot of late afternoon...
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Perspectives On A Cloud: A Day Around Mount Shasta
A beautiful fall Mount Shasta morning, still with some vestiges of autumn color. Thus far, 2020 has not been a great lenticular season. Typically, October and November are some of the richest months...
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Mount Shasta: Fire In The Sky, Fire In The Forest
Today was kind of an odd one. It began with a fiery sunrise and ended with a fiery sunset of an unexpected and completely different kind. It started out early. I knew there were going to be clouds this...
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Rime Ice Aglow And A Fresh Layer Of Snow
Saturday afternoon saw a great lenticular formation. It was possibly the best that has occurred thus far this season, though it was not a particularly epic one. Rather, it was a complex weave of small...
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Sometimes, The Beauty Is Too Great And Too Fleeting
This has been a very strange autumn here in Mount Shasta. Typically, October and November are some of the most productive months for lenticulars and when the strange clouds are not about, the sky above...
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Two Mornings Around Mount Shasta
The problem with this time of year is that something interesting can happen in the sky above Mount Shasta on any given morning. During the summer, the weather is more stable and the sky lacks interest....
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A Spectacular Near Miss
Friday morning I was up early to continue my quest for a sunrise lenticular. Though the season has thus far continued to underwhelm, I remain optimistic that things will improve and the mountain will...
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Mount Shasta: Three Days Of The Lenticular
An epic lenticular sunrise on Mount Shasta. I have commented repeatedly for nearly a month that this year’s lenticular season has been something of a bust. Like an early Christmas gift, the mountain...
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The Solstice And The “Star”
The one thing about fall that I really don’t like is the days getting noticeably shorter. After the summer solstice they shorten but are still long enough that it does not seem to change life much but...
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The Final Sunrise And Sunset Of 2020 (And A Few Other Things From The Last...
It’s New Year’s Eve and 2020 is finally coming to an end. The year ended quietly in the Hike Mt Shasta household, with snowshoeing, skiing, much merry making and lots of sunrise and sunset chasing. It...
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Mount Shasta 2020 – A Year In Images
2020 is in the can and we move on to a new year with new challenges and new successes. I don’t need to go into the difficulties that were faced by our society this past year, as that is obvious to...
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