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Mount Shasta: Fire and Ice
What a week we have had here in Mount Shasta! In one week we have had unusually intense heat and a blazing wildfire as well as epic lightning storms and fresh snow on Mount Shasta. It’s been wild,...
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Clear Sky/Cloudy Sky Over Mount Shasta.
Black Butte and Mount Shasta catch evening light in a cloudless sky. It seems that summer has found a late season groove that here in Mount Shasta. The sky has generally been clear and the...
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Hot August Sunsets On Mount Shasta
Whaleback and Black Butte frame Mount Shasta during a dramatic sunset. The temperatures have settled in at the upper 80’s and lower 90’s. Of course, in the Shasta Valley it is a bit hotter. As I noted...
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It’s Snowed 8 Out Of 8 Months On Mount Shasta In 2022
January snow glows on Mount Shasta during a full moon sunset. I was sifting through some old images from earlier in 2022, hunting for some shots from a particular perspective and while doing so, I...
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Shasta Valley Aglow
Mount Shasta had no light on it but the Graham Lava Flow had a subtle red glow. I found myself on the north side of Mount Shasta last night, looking over the magnificent Shasta Valley as the sun set....
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A Beautiful End To August In Mount Shasta
The summer has been surprisingly nice. Generally smoke free and temperatures haven’t been too high on a consistent basis. It hasn’t been perfect but it has been nice. However, the latter half of August...
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A Horrible Beginning To September In Mount Shasta
Smoke from the Mill Fire obscures Mount Shasta. No sooner than I posted on the beautiful end to August here in Mount Shasta, we ushered in September in the most horrific manner possible. On the second...
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Following Up On The Fires Around Mount Shasta
Smoky haze at sunset leaves Mount Shasta a purple silhouette. It’s been a week since the Mill and Mountain Fires began. Thankfully, it has been a fairly staid week, with little growth from either...
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Full Moon Fire
Of course, as soon as I post an encouraging follow up to my original article on the Mill and Mountain Fires, the latter jumps its containment lines and flares up again in a big way. After its...
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Late September Snow On Mount Shasta
Mount Shasta is white once again. In a month that opened with fire and smoke, it is gratifying to see it approaching its end with rain and snow. That is exactly how it has been this September in Mount...
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Mount Shasta Sunrise And Sunset On The Autumnal Equinox
Late evening light cradles newly snow covered Mount Shasta. With the end-of-summer storms having now passed, the skies cleared just in time to welcome autumn officially. The autumnal equinox is the...
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Old Ski Bowl Sunset With September Snow
The Old Ski Bowl on Mount Shasta, with a light glaze of fresh, late summer snow. I have found that writing posts on here has been a bit of a challenge in recent years. When I first started the site, I...
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Autumn Finally Showed Up In Mount Shasta
October has turned out to be a fairly pleasant month, with nice temperatures and plenty of sunshine…just the thing you don’t want when trying to get a good photographic start to autumn. What you want,...
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Mount Shasta’s Surprise From The Skies
Alpenglow illuminates a freshly snow-covered Mount Shasta. October flew by here in Mount Shasta and the month was generally warm and dry. Though pleasant, the month did not bring much snow for the...
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Autumn Perfection In Mount Shasta
Sunset sets a fire in the sky above Mount Shasta. After being delayed through a pleasant but somewhat meteorologically boring October, Autumn has arrived at its full vigor here in Mount Shasta....
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Mount Shasta Winter Arrived Early
Cloud enshrouded Mount Shasta on the morning the storm began. The last few days of October were great autumn days. Suddenly, on the 1st of November, we got an unexpected snow storm that dropped 4-5...
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A Perfect Fall Day In Mount Shasta
Thursday was a perfect one here in Mount Shasta, at least in terms of how things looked. To be truly perfect, it needed to be about 20 degrees warmer and had a lenticular on the mountain. Aside from...
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Southern Sunrise and Cerro Sunset (With GIFs)
I wasn’t really planning on another post like this, but the way the day rolled out I ended up out again at both morning and sunset. This is most certainly not something to complain about and the rising...
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Another Good Storm Hits Mount Shasta
A snowy Mount Shasta catches the last bit of sun before day’s end. After the surprise storms at the beginning of November, it felt like the winter season might be getting off to an auspicious start....
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From One Storm To Another In Mount Shasta
Evening light on a snowy Mount Shasta. There really hasn’t been much fall this fall, as we had a nice stretch of warm weather through October, then November began with an unexpected snow storm. A...
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