#California Cascades

[thorsenmark]

Wandering off the Road to Find Wonders Around by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: At a roadside pullout along the main park road not far from the southern entrance to Lassen Volcanic National Park. The view is looking to the northwest with Emerald Lake seemingly hidden amongst the ridges and peaks in this part of the national park. My thought in composing this image had been to take advantage of the higher ground I was looking from and angle my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera slightly downward, bringing the horizon higher into the image. I felt that would help with more of a sense of grandeur in the ridges and peaks around me as well as minimizing what I felt was the negative space of the blue skies above.

[rabbitcruiser]

Forest (No. 53)

Burney, CA

[vintagecamping]

Hiking through the season's first dusting in the Trinity Alps

Northern California

1994

[transit-fag]

Nobody does it like these five, they're the baddest bitches in this system

[wandering-jana]

Bumpass Hell

Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Oct. 2020

[graveyardrabbit]

globster sighting 6

[auraeseer]

Have seven . . .

[repulsion]

Mt. Shasta, as seen from the timberline (~8,500 feet). April 2023

[tabbyjack]

the problem with building out america's rail network btw is that it's privatized and there will never be a corporate incentive strong enough or backed enough to implement effective, accessible, AND privatized countrywide travel. nationalize railways deliver on the demands of railway workers and most importantly respect indigenous sovereignty/include indigenous design input when plotting routes

[yukoishii]

song of a california quail mixed media photography, wax on wood panel

Available only on artful home: https://www.artfulhome.com/navigate?searchTerm=yuko

[plethoraworldatlas]

The Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned for federal protection of Sierra Nevada red foxes in the Oregon and California Cascades, from Lassen Peak to Mt. Hood. The petition asks that the fox be listed as a threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.

“These precious mountain foxes need our help if they’re going to have any chance at survival in our rapidly warming world,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center. “The problems facing the Sierra Nevada red fox are complex and mounting, as they are for so many species in the mountains of western North America.”

In response to a previous Center petition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service protected a fox population near Sonora Pass in the Sierra Nevada as endangered. But in 2015 the Service denied the fox protection in the Cascades, citing lack of information.Since then, considerable research has shown that fox populations in Lassen, Crater Lake National Park, the Central Cascades and Mt. Hood are isolated, exceedingly small and facing multiple threats.

The fox once ranged throughout high-elevation areas of the Cascades in forests and alpine meadows. But the species has been lost from large portions of its range, including Mt. Shasta. Poisoning as part of historic predator eradication efforts and trapping were primary drivers of the fox’s historic decline.

Today the fox is threatened by habitat loss caused by fires, logging, livestock grazing and development, increased recreation and climate change, which is pushing the fox’s habitat off the top of mountains.

An additional threat is competition and predation from coyotes, which have proliferated in the Cascades in the absence of wolves. Coyotes are likely to move uphill as snowpacks recede with warming.

“The harms we’re doing to the natural world are accumulating and interacting in complex ways to the detriment of animals like the Sierra Nevada red fox,” said Greenwald. “Historic killing of predators, including wolves and the fox, have left the fox vulnerable to coyotes and risks inherent to small populations. And now, increased interest in outdoor recreation and global warming represent new and growing threats to the fox.”

The fox’s surviving populations are critically small. The population found in the Lassen area, for example, was recently estimated to contain fewer than 10 breeding adults. The other populations are not much bigger.

[thorsenmark]

Reflections of Lassen Peak and Manzanita Lake (Lassen Volcanic National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: A setting looking to the south-southeast while taking in views of Lassen Peak beyond a nearby shoreline. This was while walking along the Manzanita Lake Loop in Lassen Volcanic National Park. My thought in composing this image had been to capture a balance between the reflections with that of the forest and mountain peaks in the upper portion of the image. And including the lone kayaker :-)

[rabbitcruiser]

Nubieber, CA

State Route 299 (SR 299) is an east–west state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs across the northern part of the state. At 305.777 miles (492.100 km), it is the third longest California state route, after Route 1 and Route 99, and the longest east-west route. Route 299's western terminus is at US 101 at the northern edge of Arcata, and its eastern terminus is at the Nevada state line at a point east of Cedarville. Between Arcata and Redding, Route 299 intersects with State Route 96, and is briefly co-signed with State Route 3. In Redding, it intersects with State Route 273, State Route 44, and Interstate 5. East of Redding, it intersects with State Route 89, and a section is co-signed with State Route 139 before reaching Alturas. It is then co-signed with U.S. Route 395 northeast of Alturas, and then runs east through Cedarville and to the border with Nevada. A ghost town, Vya, Nevada, can be reached via this route, which after the border becomes a dirt road, which was formerly Nevada State Route 8A. The segment of SR 299 between Arcata and Redding is the Trinity Scenic Byway, a National Forest Scenic Byway.

Source: Wikipedia

[tpeakphotos]

Once called the Eighth Wonder of the World by Teddy Roosevelt, Burney Falls is certainly a majestic sight! It’s also one of the most over-photographed spots in the western USA making it very hard to produce an image that doesn’t look like a thousand other images already in existence. Enter infrared photography. I’ve only seen one other infrared image of the falls prior to capturing it in invisible light myself. I captured this image with my full spectrum camera fitted with an 830 nanometer “deep infrared” filter. It was late on an early May afternoon when some unsettled weather was moving through the area making for some dramatic clouds overhead yet providing some sun to get that nice IR glow off the trees. Being a weekday in less than stellar weather, it also kept the crowd at bay and I had the overlook to myself for a time which certainly helped! Prints available: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-8th-wonder-infrared-mike-lee.html

[transit-fag]

I don't see timetables on the amtrak web page, just hours when a station is open. Should I plan on getting to the station I'd leave from hours before the one I'd arrive at would close? (Would be a couple hours in a car)

The app usually will schedule to allow for a few hours of time to get a transfer. You can get time tables by looking up the name of the route then "timetable" in a search engine. Here are a few timetables to help though

San Jaoquins

California Zephyr

Capitol Limited

Cascades