#Shasta-Trinity National Forest

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Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California

Day 2 backpacking South Fork was actually spent on Smoky Creek where the Bigfoot Trail climbs away from the river. I hiked up to the trailhead, getting in some views, before returning to the river.

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tangle blue lake (shasta-trinity national forest)

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Mount Shasta, CA

Mount Shasta is a potentially active volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of 14,179 ft (4,322 m), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the state. Mount Shasta has an estimated volume of 85 cubic miles (350 cubic kilometers), which makes it the most voluminous stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc. The mountain and surrounding area are part of the Shasta–Trinity National Forest.

The origin of the name "Shasta" is vague, either derived from a people of a name like it or otherwise garbled by early Westerners. Mount Shasta is connected to its satellite cone of Shastina, and together they dominate the landscape. Shasta rises abruptly to tower nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above its surroundings. On a clear winter day, the mountain can be seen from the floor of the Central Valley 140 miles (230 km) to the south. The mountain has attracted the attention of poets, authors, and presidents.

The mountain consists of four overlapping dormant volcanic cones that have built a complex shape, including the main summit and the prominent and visibly conical satellite cone of 12,330 ft (3,760 m) Shastina. If Shastina were a separate mountain, it would rank as the fourth-highest peak of the Cascade Range (after Mount Rainier, Rainier's Liberty Cap, and Mount Shasta itself).

Mount Shasta's surface is relatively free of deep glacial erosion except, paradoxically, for its south side where Sargents Ridge runs parallel to the U-shaped Avalanche Gulch. This is the largest glacial valley on the volcano, although it does not now have a glacier in it. There are seven named glaciers on Mount Shasta, with the four largest (Whitney, Bolam, Hotlum, and Wintun) radiating down from high on the main summit cone to below 10,000 ft (3,000 m) primarily on the north and east sides. The Whitney Glacier is the longest, and the Hotlum is the most voluminous glacier in the state of California. Three of the smaller named glaciers occupy cirques near and above 11,000 ft (3,400 m) on the south and southeast sides, including the Watkins, Konwakiton, and Mud Creek glaciers.

Source: Wikipedia

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Mount Shasta from the Pacific Crest Trail. Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California, USA. [4782 x 2090] [OC]

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Shasta-Trinity National Forest [2023]

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Shasta-Trinity National Forests, California.

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Weather: Pacific Northwest

Report generated at 2024-11-22 04:00:08.684042-08:00 using satellite imagery and alert data provided by the National Weather Service.

High Wind Warning

WA:

Central Coast of Oregon

Clatsop County Coast

South Washington Coast

Tillamook County Coast

OR:

Central Coast of Oregon

Central and Eastern Lake County

Clatsop County Coast

Curry County Coast

Klamath Basin

Modoc County

Northern and Eastern Klamath County and Western Lake County

South Central Oregon Coast

South Washington Coast

Tillamook County Coast

CA:

Central Siskiyou County

Central and Eastern Lake County

Del Norte Interior

Klamath Basin

Modoc County

Mono

Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties

Northern Humboldt Interior

Northern and Eastern Klamath County and Western Lake County

Southern Humboldt Interior

Southwestern Humboldt

NV:

Greater Reno-Carson City-Minden Area

Mineral and Southern Lyon Counties

Flood Watch

WA:

Mason

CA:

Central Sacramento Valley

Coastal Del Norte

Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore

Del Norte Interior

Marin Coastal Range

Mendocino Coast

Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Western Colusa County

North Bay Interior Mountains

North Bay Interior Valleys

Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley

Northeastern Mendocino Interior

Northern Humboldt Coast

Northern Humboldt Interior

Northern Lake County

Northern Sacramento Valley

Northwestern Mendocino Interior

Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County

Sonoma Coastal Range

Southeastern Mendocino Interior

Southern Humboldt Interior

Southern Lake County

Southern Trinity

Southwestern Humboldt

Southwestern Mendocino Interior

High Surf Advisory

WA:

Central Coast

North Coast

CA:

Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore

San Francisco

San Francisco Peninsula Coast

Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast

Wind Advisory

WA:

Bellevue and Vicinity

Central Coast

East Puget Sound Lowlands

Foothills of the Blue Mountains of Washington

North Coast

Western Whatcom County

OR:

Benton County Lowlands

Central and Eastern Lake County

East Central Willamette Valley

Foothills of the Northern Blue Mountains of Oregon

Grande Ronde Valley

Jackson County

Klamath Basin

Linn County Lowlands

Modoc County

Northern and Eastern Klamath County and Western Lake County

West Central Willamette Valley

CA:

Central Sacramento Valley

Central and Eastern Lake County

Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore

East Bay Hills

Eastern Santa Clara Hills

Greater Lake Tahoe Area

Klamath Basin

Marin Coastal Range

Modoc County

Mountains Of San Benito County And Interior Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Park

North Bay Interior Mountains

Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley

Northern Sacramento Valley

Northern and Eastern Klamath County and Western Lake County

San Francisco

San Francisco Peninsula Coast

San Luis Obispo County Beaches

San Luis Obispo County Interior Valleys

Santa Cruz Mountains

Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest

Sonoma Coastal Range

Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast

NV:

Greater Lake Tahoe Area

Spring Mountains-Red Rock Canyon

Western Clark and Southern Nye County

Flood Warning

OR:

Coos

Siskiyou, CA

CA:

Humboldt

Mendocino

Siskiyou

Sonoma

Tehama

Winter Weather Advisory

ID:

Centennial Mountains/Island Park

Frank Church Wilderness

Lost River Range

CA:

Eastern Sierra Slopes of Inyo County

Northern Trinity

Winter Storm Warning

ID:

Big Lost Highlands/Copper Basin

Sawtooth/Stanley Basin

Sun Valley Region

CA:

Grant Grove Area

Greater Lake Tahoe Area

Kaiser to Rodgers Ridge

Kings Canyon NP

Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties

Mono

Sequoia NP

South End of the Upper Sierra

Upper San Joaquin River

West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada

Western Plumas County/Lassen Park

Yosemite NP outside of the valley

NV:

Greater Lake Tahoe Area

Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties

Winter Storm Watch

CA:

Greater Lake Tahoe Area

Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties

Mono

NV:

Greater Lake Tahoe Area

Lassen-Eastern Plumas-Eastern Sierra Counties

Flood Advisory

CA:

Butte

Del Norte

Humboldt

Lassen

Marin

Frost Advisory

CA:

Calabasas and Agoura Hills

Ojai Valley

Beach Hazards Statement

CA:

Northern Monterey Bay

Lake Wind Advisory

NV:

Western Nevada Basin and Range including Pyramid Lake

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California rural schools ask Congress for crucial funding

WASHINGTON —  Anmarie Swanstrom had driven four hours along twisting mountain roads, through the fire-scarred Shasta-Trinity National Forest, to Sacramento to catch a red-eye flight. Now, here she was — a school superintendent from impoverished Hayfork, Calif. — clutching a pair of black high heels, power-walking in bare feet across Capitol Hill. She had come to plead for money for the 340…

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Millions in central US brace for snow, rain

Millions in central US brace for snow, rain

This image taken from a California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) traffic monitoring camera shows snowy conditions on a highway known as California SR-89 Snowman, in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, California, on Saturday, December 10. 2022. (Caltrans via AP) PA A massive winter storm was battering the central United States on Monday, threatening millions of people with heavy snow,…

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Six Rivers National Forest, California

Visiting the 4th, highest, and only still active fire lookout on South Fork Mountain. That makes all of them!

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Discovering Joy in Aragog’s Hollow

In 2012, Sierra ‘Monkey’ Burror and her mother, Heather (’Mama Bear’), thru-hiked the PCT.  When Sierra finished she was a mere 9 years old.  But here hiking exploits were not done.  This mother-daughter team hiked the Colorado trail in 2013 and completed the Continental Divide Trail during the following three summers. Sierra is now 17 and is finishing her senior year in high school. She will be attending Cornell University next year, where she will be running both cross country and track, and plans to study Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a minor in Environmental Economics.  This is a short piece from their PCT thru-hike.

By Sierra Burror

Even with my eyes squeezed shut tight, I could still sense the 472 spider legs as they slowly advanced up my purple nylon sleeping bag toward my head. After an exhausting, 20-mile day, the postage-stamp-sized patch of bare ground we now called home had seemed like a palace. Too small for a tent, we simply tossed our sleeping bags down on a crinkly Tyvek tarp to “cowgirl” camp for the night. But then we started noticing thin black shadows scuttling across our tarp. Spiders. Lots of spiders. Hundreds of spiders, and now a small army steadily marched toward us. Our “palace” was actually a spider hollow. After months on the trail, I had definitely learned to find joy in the most challenging circumstances, but now I simply wanted to hike on. “Mom? I think we need to keep hiking.”

At the age of six, I had a dream: to through-hike the 2,665-mile Pacific Crest Trail from the Mexico Border to Manning Park in British Columbia, Canada. Now, two years later I was living that dream, each day filled with new adventures and breathtaking scenery. I witnessed the brilliant colors of a desert sunset and slid down snowy passes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I strolled through fields of wildflowers and sheltered under towering pines. I discovered a Blue Jay nest tucked into the crook of a Joshua Tree and scooped aquatic invertebrates out of an alpine pond.

However, the trail also naturally brought its share of challenges: the intense desert heat, the freezing rain, hail, and sleet of mountain thunderstorms, and long days of hiking. Now it brought a new challenge. Spiders. Reluctantly I packed up my backpack, loathe to leave camp after such a tiring day, but eager to escape our newly-discovered Aragog’s hollow in the dense Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

We hiked into the night, but somehow the lateness of the hour didn’t bother me. Moonlight glistened on the nearby creek and bright pinpricks of starlight pierced the darkness of the sky. The cool night air washed over our skin and we settled into a familiar rhythm, just one foot in front of the other on the dusty, brown trail. Our flashlights beamed off the trees and ground, bouncing with each stride, trees, ground, trees, ground, and then, a spider-web!  Spanning at least four feet, the reflective gossamer strands stretched tree to tree, across the trail. Perched on the center of the web was a massive creature with dull silver, tinsel-like hair and eight green eyes. Despite my earlier fear, now that I no longer had spiders crawling on me, I found myself fascinated by her. Who was this creature? How did she accomplish this engineering feat, constructing a web all the way across the trail, almost perfectly level? A miracle.

Carefully sidestepping the web, we continued down the trail. The Pacific Crest Trail at night was very different than it appeared during the day, and I developed a new appreciation for the other mysterious nocturnal creatures who made the trail their home. Bats swooped in and out of the trees, scooping up insects. A mountain scorpion skittered across the trail, alerted by our footfalls. A coyote yipped in the distance. The magic of each new discovery lightened my sluggish steps, easing the pain of my first 28-mile day until we eventually found a new spider-free camp.  

Many people scoff at the idea of hiking at night, wondering incredulously why you would want to hustle through such beautiful terrain in the dark. But what we learned that night is that the night has a special beauty of her own. And the next time we found ourselves hiking into the night on our way to Canada, we greeted the night as an old friend.

Note: For those of you who missed the Harry Potter series, Aragog was a rare giant spider.

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Shasta-Trinity National Forest Service Closures in Northern California

Shasta-Trinity NF Recreation Facility Closures

REDDING, Calif. — Developed campgrounds, cabin rentals and picnic areas on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest are closed until April 30, 2020. A full list of current closures can be found below. 

  Notifications to those who reserved sites through recreation.gov will be made as soon as possible and refunds will be processed. While designated…

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Trinity Wash by balance_now

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