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Around Mount Shasta On The First Day Of 2021
The Mount Shasta area has a lot of weather rolling through and it may be a while before we see the mountain for a sustained period of time. Hopefully that means we get a good dose of snow. This being...
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A Ghostly Lenticular
The morning light barely illuminates a lenticular over Mount Shasta. The new year has started off with a real mixed bag of weather. A few days of rain and snow, a couple of days with some clearish...
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In The Shadow Of Aurora
The rising sun sets the sky over Mount Shasta aflame. The sunrise on Wednesday was beautiful, but in a subdued and ethereal way. It never seemed to be able to gather enough light to itself and really...
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Two Magnificent Mount Shasta Lenticulars.
A small lenticular covers the summit of Mount Shasta. There has been some great lenticular theatrics in the sky over Mount Shasta the last few days. They have been strong, full-featured formations...
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Palisades At Daybreak
Sunrise on Mount Shasta’s Mud Creek Basin. I will be among the first to proclaim that we need more snow. Halfway through January, we have not gotten that big winter storm that really builds up the...
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The Storm Of January 2021, Part I
Sunrise on Mount Shasta on Tuesday morning. Thus far, the winter of 2020-2021 has been fairly moderate, with little precipitation. We had a good snow on Christmas day but since then we have had...
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The Storm Of January 2021, Part II
Mount Shasta makes a brief appearance in between waves of the storm. The first wave of the storm of January 2021 was predicted to drop 1-3 inches. It ended up leaving almost 7 inches at my house. Now...
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Lenticular Collapse On A Wild Morning (The Storm Of January 2021 Pt. III)
Sunlight illuminates mist left over from a turbulent lenticular collapse. Talk about one of your all-time storm fizzles. After the last wave of the dropped almost 3 feet of snow at my house, the next...
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Crags of Light And Crazy Clouds: A Few Days Around Mount Shasta
A trio of “lenticulish” clouds surround Mount Shasta on a cold and beautiful morning. The last few days have been busy for me and I wasn’t able to get out during the weekend as much as I wanted to....
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2021 Winter Hiking Round Up
Mount Shasta and lenticular clouds viewed from the Lake Siskiyou Trail. The winter season of 2020-2021 has been with us for a few months now. Things started off pretty slowly, with some rain here and...
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Mount Shasta GIF Gallery
Over the years, it has been my focus to capture Mount Shasta in images and I have not ventured much beyond that in terms of other media. However, periodically over the last couple of years I have...
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Cut Into The Mountain’s Heart: The Great Canyons Of Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta’s Ash Creek Falls pours into the lower half of Ash Creek Canyon. Mount Shasta is justly known as a towering, glacier-clad volcano, standing in grand isolation high above all the other...
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Mount Shasta’s Show Fleeting But A Fine One (And Mount Eddy Too!)
Though Wednesday proved to be clear-skied Thursday morning offered something altogether different. The forecast called for clouds in the morning. With that in mind, I headed out yet again, but I had...
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Mount Shasta: Morning, Noon and Night
A sunrise-lit lenticular seems to be grabbing for Shastarama Point. Friday was another interesting day around Mount Shasta. Like the day before, the forecast called for partly cloudy skies, which...
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Chasing A Titan: A Day With An Evolving Mount Shasta Lenticular
A pair of lenticulars, one massive one a simple disk, hover over Mount Shasta. Seemingly out of nowhere, a titanic lenticular event manifested over Mount Shasta on Monday, kicking off March with a...
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Mount Shasta Was On A Roll This Week (Plus Fresh Snow)
Alpenglow on Mount Shasta beneath a massive lenticular wave. I have noted on a few occasions that the current lenticular season has been somewhat lackluster. Though there have been a few events...
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The Winter Snowpack Thus Far In Mount Shasta
Unusually snowy hills of the Shasta Valley lie beneath alpenglow-bathed Mount Shasta. As we near the end of winter (at this point, I can’t wait!), it is worth considering the snowpack that has...
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2021 Mount Shasta Spring Hiking Round Up
A springtime sunset on Mount Shasta. We are a week past the 2021 vernal equinox and moving right into spring. Though we will no doubt have some more precipitation (I sure hope!) for now we are blessed...
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A Mount Shasta Pelican?
Saturday was the nicest day of 2021 thus far. No doubt days will be getting better as we plunge into spring. The nice weather meant it was a moral imperative to get outside. The morning was spent...
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High Desert Oasis: A Mount Shasta Sunrise And Sunset At Orr Lake
Last weekend I had the opportunity to take the Boy Scout troop out for a weekend of camping at Orr Lake. The lake is on the northeast side of Mount Shasta and, for my money, one of the nicest places to...
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