Mt. Lassen, CA Conditions Report VIDEO: Skiing & Being Attacked by Tens of Thousands Butterflies on July 22nd, 2017 “On the evening of July 21st my roommate Justin and I set out for Lassen Volcanic National Park. Hoping to find some good snow we camped out the first night and made our way over to the peak on the morning of the 22nd. Shortly after we began hiking up the peak trail we were swarmed by tens of thousands […] Conditions Report Guest Author | July 25, 2017 0 Comments
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Deep Snow – Mt. Lassen, California | June 1st, 1995… “Check out our group of smelly hippy three pinners: 1995 Mt Lassen.” – Dan (one of the guys in the photos) This photo was taken on June 1st, 1995 at Mt. Lassen, California. Mt. Lassen is a stratovolcano in Northern California that is known for its copious winter snowfall. 1995 was simply insane at Mt. Lassen. “Can’t believe that little plow scrapped away that drift just so we could ski in June.” – Dan (one of the guys in the photos) 1995 was an interesting year on Earth. ’95 was a La Nina year (legendary for big snowfall winters) and was the 6th warmest year on record on Earth (and the #1 warmest ever at the time). Mt. Lassen, CA by the Numbers: 10,463′ […] Featured Article SnowBrains | August 27, 2014 4 Comments
Mt. Lassen Report: Great Corn and Deep Pond Skimming After reasoning with Metres that, “skiing is always better than NOT skiing….” the night before, we found ourselves awake at 4 am tip-toeing ninja like around our family at our camp in Lassen NP. After heating up some water for soup and tea to get my bowels moving we hopped in my car and drove up to the summit parking lot. We suited up and soon we were skinning. After 30 min of skinning we were on the ridge, hiking up the […] Conditions Report Guest Author | May 29, 2014 1 Comment
North Face of Mt. Lassen, CA Trip Report | 4,000-Feet of Smooth Corn & 2,000-Foot Wet Avalanches | May 18th Photo Tour (editorโs note: ย Check out Zebโs guide company blog and website for more details, especially if youโre interested in skiing Portillo, Chile or Antarctica or anywhere really: ย Alpine Mountain Works) Is today going to be skiing, climbing, biking, hiking, or even swimming?ย ย Right now folks living in Norcal are faced with a lot of choices.ย ย Duncan Sisson, Mattias Sullivan and I couldnโt narrow […] Zeb Blais | May 23, 2013 6 Comments