[PHOTOS] Over 15″ Fresh Snow Blankets 14,179′ Mount Shasta, CA, on August 24, 2024 While Palisades Tahoe and Mammoth Mountain received a dusting in the last couple of days, Mount Shasta received almost 16″ of fresh snow. Meteorological Fall is still a week away. It’s still summer. Related: [PHOTOS] Measurable Snow Falls on Mammoth Mountain and Palisades Tahoe, CA California’s Mount Shasta, standing at over 14,000 feet, will see 12-18 inches of snow tonight as […] SnowBrains | August 25, 2024 0 Comments
14,179′ Mount Shasta, CA, Report: Angry Mountain Prompts Bail; Still a Nice 3,500′ of Slush Skiing, Though Report from Tuesday, June 4 In 1870, German biologist Ernst Haeckel suggested that a sunken continent called Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humanity, potentially explaining the “missing links” in the fossil record of early humans. Haeckel was not a subscriber to Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. In America, Lemuria has become most closely associated with Mount Shasta in […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | June 5, 2024 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Climber Requires Hoist Rescue After Getting Caught in Avalanche on Mount Shasta, CA A helicopter crew from the California Highway Patrol’s H-14 unit responded to a call for help from an injured mountain climber stranded at 11,000 feet on the side of Mount Shasta on Friday, May 3. Related: [PHOTOS] Mount Shasta, CA, Avalanche Injures 2 Snowboarders, Prompting 11 Hour Ground-Rescue According to the rescue report, the climber had been overtaken by an […] Avalanche AvyBrains | May 5, 2024 0 Comments
[PHOTOS] Mount Shasta, CA, Avalanche Injures 2 Snowboarders, Prompting 11 Hour Ground-Rescue Two snowboarders were swept away by a wind slab avalanche on Mount Shasta, California, on Saturday, April 27, prompting a lengthy ground rescue by Siskiyou County Sherrif’s Office and U.S. Forest Service. According to the press release by the Sheriff’s Office, the avalanche was triggered by the two boarders as they were climbing left of The Heart in Avalanche Gulch […] Avalanche AvyBrains | April 29, 2024 0 Comments
14,179′ Mt. Shasta, CA Covered in Snow Today – September 2, 2023 14,179′ Mt. Shasta & 12,335′ Shastina, CA were smothered in snow today, September 2, 2023. Today is also the 2nd day of meteorological fall. Winter is almost here. Photos Conditions Report SnowBrains | September 2, 2023 0 Comments
Mount Shasta, CA, Report: Excellent Corn Conditions on Avalanche Gulch and The West Face This report is from June 5th, 2023, and was written by Blackbird Mountain Guides The bottom line is that the ski season on Mt Shasta still has some life left, and the climbing conditions are pretty good. This weekend we skied and climbed the West Face and Avalanche Gulch. We found consolidated snow and excellent corn conditions on both routes, […] Conditions Report Guest Author | June 8, 2023 1 Comment
Mount Shasta, CA, Conditions and Climbing Information This post first appeared on shastaavalanche.org Spring climb and ski season has made the transition to early summer conditions. A bountiful winter has brought excellent snow coverage to the lower half of the mountain, but it is getting thin on the upper mountain. Early summer conditions means a little bit of everything. Perfect blue skies with no wind can be followed by building […] Conditions Report SnowBrains | June 6, 2023 1 Comment
2h30m – Jack Kuenzle Sets ‘Fastest Known Time’ For Ski Ascent/Descent of 14,162′ Mount Shasta, CA On Friday, Jack Kuenzle of Roxbury, CT, set a Fastest Known Time (FKT) for ascending and descending Mount Shasta, CA, on skis. Related: A New Mind-Boggling Fastest Known Time on Mt. Shasta, CA Starting at Bunny Flats at 6,880′, the route featured 7,602′ of climbing over two and a half hours to the summit of 14,162 foot Mount Shasta. Kuenzle took […] SnowBrains | April 17, 2023 0 Comments
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