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Fascinating Evidence Of A Deluge On A Creek
May is a month that I typically spend hunting for waterfalls. With the snow melting and the mountains opening up, yet the temperatures comfortable, it is the perfect season to track cataracts. It is...
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Northern California Review: Orland Buttes
The Orland Buttes offer a rugged break from the exceedingly flat Sacramento Valley. When driving along Interstate 5 through California’s Sacramento Valley, the landscape the freeway is unrelentingly...
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An Afternoon With The Survey Creek Cascades
An afternoon view of Mount Shasta from a bluff near Survey Creek. The last month has been an odd one for me. Normally I am out all over the area, hunting waterfalls, climbing peaks and generally...
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Lovejoy Basalt: A Unique And Beautiful Northern California Landscape
Phantom Falls pours over a Lovejoy Basalt ledge. A few things have happened over the last couple of months that have refocused my attention on Northern California’s Lovejoy Basalt formation. First, my...
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Sunset On Parks Peak
Thursday evening the sky around Mount Shasta had some rather interesting clouds, many of which were vaguely “lenticulish”. I headed out into the Shasta Valley in the hope that it would be a spectacular...
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Shasta Spans: Five MORE Interesting Foot Bridges
A ruined footbridge over an unnamed creek somewhere near Mount Eddy. Several years ago I wrote an article highlighting 5 footbridges in the Mount Shasta area that stood out to me as distinct and...
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Recalling My Pinnacles Condor Encounter
The Pinnacles present a dramatic pagenat of rock from the Chapparral trailhead. This past weekend my family and I went down to Carmel to attend graduation parties for my brother’s oldest and youngest...
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A June Lenticular On Mount Shasta
This past lenticular season, as with much else from the winter, was an odd one. There were a few exceptional specimens of the odd-shaped clouds but, overall, we did not get a bunch of them like we...
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Life And The Lava Fire Pt. I
Smoky haze obscure Mount Shasta but reveals the mountain’s many layers. Yikes. I haven’t posted anything at all in nearly two months. It’s the longest lacuna I’ve had since starting this site at the...
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Life And The Lava Fire Pt. II
With the Lava Fire mostly out, small smoldering areas still create a haze around the summit. The summer got off to a wild start for my family, as documented in part one of this short series looking at...
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On Whitney Creek And The Lava Fire (Some Good News)
Looking across a burned area towards Whitney Falls and Whitney Creek Canyon. The fires this summer have been discouraging both here on Mount Shasta and elsewhere in Northern California. Yet, in the...
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A Red Sunset Over Lake Siskiyou
The sun sets below Mount Eddy and the Trinity Divide. Last week the Mount Shasta area was shrouded in an oppressive cloud of smoke. While none burned in the immediate area, there are a few fires to...
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Mount Shasta, Before And After The Rain
A light, week-old dusting of snow lingers amidst Mount Shasta’s glaciers. The last couple of days have seen the coming of much needed rain to the Mount Shasta area. Rain fell a week ago and then,...
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Another Light Rain Around Mount Shasta.
A fresh dusting of snow and the light of sunrise mix on Mount Shasta. For the third time in the last few weeks the Mount Shasta area has gotten rain. This certainly seems to indicate the accuracy of...
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Autumn Around The Great Basin (And The Eastern Sierra)
Autumn glory in Lamoille Canyon. Fall is my favorite time of year because of the changing light, cooler days and the kaleidoscope of colors that burst into the scenery. Over the last several years we...
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Mount Shasta: Into The Deluge
Mount Shasta, white from a precursor round of snow, on the eve of an epic storm. In many ways, it has been a rough year in Mount Shasta. Last winter seemed good, with a fair amount of snow falling but...
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Mount Shasta: After The Storm
Golden oaks embrace lenticular-crowned Mount Shasta. A week and a half ago, I posted on the conditions as a “bomb cyclone” careened into the Mount Shasta area. Now, on the other side of the storm, it...
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Foggy Sunrise At Truchas Ridge
On Saturday morning I headed out to Truchas Ridge for the sunrise. There were a few clouds in the sky but nothing particularly interesting. However, I had not been out there for a few days and I was...
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A Glorious December Afternoon On Cerro Pedernal
Looking south toward Mount Shasta from the summit of Cerro Pedernal. The first of December was a surprisingly warm day that proved irresistible and I had to take the family outside for the afternoon....
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Mount Shasta’s First Big Storm Of Winter – Round 1
A frosty white Black Butte rises above the high desert terrain of the Shasta Valley. We got our first good dose of snow this winter here in Mount Shasta and, if this is any indicator of how the rest...
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