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- Mount Shasta, peak (14,162 feet [4,317 metres]) of the Cascade Range in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, northern California, U.S. The peak lies 77 miles (124 km) north of the city of Redding.
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May 4, 2024 · Mount Shasta, peak (14,162 feet [4,317 metres]) of the Cascade Range in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, northern California, U.S. The peak lies 77 miles (124 km) north of the city of Redding. An impressive double-peaked dormant volcano, it dominates the landscape (a vast panorama of tumbled.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 20, 2019 · California’s Mount Shasta Loses a Historical Eruption. Clues from an old map erase a false 1786 event and are part of a global volcanic-record cleanup. When French explorer Jean-François de...
- Jennifer Leman
Mount Shasta is located in the Cascade Range in northern California about 65 km (40 mi) south of the Oregon-California border. One of the largest and highest (14,162 ft) of the Cascade volcanoes, the compound stratovolcano is located near the southern end of the range that terminates near Lassen Peak.
The Mount Shasta magmatic system has evolved more or less continuously for at least 590,000 years, but the ancestral cone was virtually destroyed by an enormous volcanic sector collapse and landslide around 300,000 years ago.
- Height and Location of Mount Shasta
- Mount Shasta Geology and Volcanic Eruptions
- Glaciers, Vegetation, and Lenticular Clouds
- Climbing Mount Shasta
- Historical References
- First Ascent of Mount Shasta
- Notable Ascents of Mount Shasta
- Shasta Legends and Lore
Mount Shasta is located just 50 miles south of the Oregon-California border and midway between the Nevada border and the Pacific Ocean. Its coordinates are 41°24′33.11″ N / 122°11′41.60″ W. At 14,179 feet (4,322 meters) in elevation, it is the fifth highest mountain in California, and the second highest mountain in the Cascade Range (Mount Rainieri...
Mount Shasta is a large stratovolcano with four overlapping volcanic cones. Besides its main summit, Shasta has a 12,330-foot (3,760 meters) satellite volcanic cone called Shastina. Shasta has erupted periodically over the last 600,000 years and is considered an active volcano. A period of mountain building between 600,000 and 300,000 built Mount S...
Mount Shasta has seven named glaciers—Whitney, Bolam, Hotlum, Wintun, Watkins, Konwakiton, and Mud Creek. Whitney Glacier is the longest, while Hotlum Glacier is the largest glacier in California. Mount Shasta rises almost 7,000 feet above timberline, with areas of grassy tundra, large rocky scree fields, and glaciers covering most of this treeless...
Mount Shasta is not a difficult mountain to climb, although severe weather conditions can occur year-round. The usual climbing season is from early May through October. Climbers should be prepared for extreme weather conditions, even in summer; carry a rope, crampons and ice axe; and be skilled in glacier travel, snow climbing, and know how to self...
The origin of the name Shasta is unknown, although some think it derives from a Russian word meaning “white.” The local Karuk Indians called it Úytaahkoo, which translates to “White Mountain. One of the earliest references to Mount Shasta was by Hudson Bay trader and trapper Peter Skene Ogden who led five trapping expeditions to northern California...
Mount Shasta, then also called Shasta Butte, was first climbed on August 14, 1854, by an eight-man party led by Captain Elias D. Pierce, a Yreka local. He described their ascent of the upper slopes: “We were obliged in many places to climb from crag to crag as best we could. The least misstep or the detaching of the smallest piece of rock upon whic...
The first ascent by women was by Harriette Eddy and Mary Campbell McCloud in 1856. Other notable early ascents were by John Wesley Powell, the one-armed Civil War Major who also was first down the Colorado River and a founder of the Smithsonian Institution, in 1879 and by famed naturalist and climber John Muir who climbed it several times. John Mui...
Mount Shasta, like so many awe-inspiring mountains, is the location of many legends, myths, and stories. The Native Americans, of course, revered the great white peak, and legend says, refused to climb it because of gods that lived on it and because it figures in their creation myth. Some people believe that the interior of Mount Shasta is populate...
- Stewart Green
Aug 10, 2020 · Mount Shasta, a 400 km 3 volcano in northern California (United States), is the most voluminous stratocone of the Cascade arc. Most Mount Shasta lavas vented at or near the present summit; relatively smaller volumes erupted from scattered vents on the volcano’s flanks.
Mount Shasta in northern California, the largest volcano of the Cascade Range, is a complex stratovolcano composed of at least four overlapping volcanoes. From the SW, Shasta's prominent west flank lava dome, Shastina, appears at the left.
