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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′ […]
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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 […]
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North Face of Mt. Lassen, CA Trip Report | 4,000-Feet of Smooth Corn & 2,000-Foot Wet Avalanches | May 18th Photo Tour

(editor’s note:  Check out Zeb’s guide company blog and website for more details, especially if you’re interested in skiing Portillo, Chile or Antarctica or anywhere really:  Alpine Mountain Works) Is today going to be skiing, climbing, biking, hiking, or even swimming?  Right now folks living in Norcal are faced with a lot of choices.  Duncan Sisson, Mattias Sullivan and I couldn’t narrow […]
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