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Mount Shasta

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Mount Shasta is a comprehensive and detailed guide to the many climbing, skiing, and snowboarding routes on Mt. Shasta from beginners to experts.
  • 19 June 2017
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Discover Mount Shasta’s many routes, which offer exhilaration and challenge for beginning and experienced climbers, hikers, and skiers.

Mount Shasta is California’s premier, stand-alone, 14,000-foot mountain—with the largest and longest glaciers in the state. Along with Washington’s Mount Rainier, Mount Shasta is one of the two most prominent large mountains in the contiguous United States. It is sought after by so many climbers and skiers nationwide because it offers such a wide variety of routes, especially moderate ones for the aspiring mountaineer and backcountry skier. It inspires thousands of visitors each year—and with expert guidance from two professional mountaineers, you can be among them.

The fully updated fourth edition of Mount Shasta, by Andy Selters and Michael Zanger, is the most comprehensive and detailed guide to this large, varied, historic, and coveted mountain for climbing and skiing. The guidebook presents dozens of trips on the mountain and in its surrounding areas, as well as extensive details on weather, climbing and skiing conditions, amenities, history, and more. Plus, the book also comes with a foldout map of the Mount Shasta Wilderness!

Book Features:

  • 17 climbing routes
  • 15 skiing and snowboarding routes
  • 8 hiking and backpacking trips
  • Many variations to the suggested routes
  • Bonus: large, foldout topographic map showing all the mountain’s routes and variations
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Price: $17.99
Pages: 200
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Imprint: Wilderness Press
Publication Date: 19 June 2017
ISBN: 9780899978673
Format: eBook
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A proud Jersey girl at heart, Natalie Pompilio has embraced almost everything Philadelphia. (She’ll never give up her New York sports teams, though!) She loves soft pretzels with mustard, cobblestone streets, her row house home and neighbors, streets so narrow a car can’t pass, the hammocks at Spruce Street Harbor Park, and the singing fountain on Passyunk Avenue. Her favorite way to travel the city is using the Indego bike share. Inspired by muralist Isaiah Zagar, she has completed multiple mosaics in her neighborhood with the blessing of property owners. She loves reading above most things and is a frequent visitor to the Charles Santoro branch of the Philadelphia Free Library system. If she’s not in Philadelphia, you’ll probably find her in New Orleans, where she rides with the Krewe of Muses during Carnival season. She’s crafty—not in the way the Beastie Boys sang about, but in the way that she could probably build you a house with a hot-glue gun.
Table of Contents

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
2 Weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
3 Hiking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
  • Hiking on Shasta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
  • Hiking Near Shasta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
    4 Climbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
  • Area: Southwest Side of Mt. Shasta from Sargents Ridge to Cascade Gulch . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
  • Area: Shastina to the Hotlum-Bolam Ridge . . . .89
  • Area: North and Northeast Sides, Hotlum and Wintun Glaciers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
  • Area: East and Southeast Sides, Clear Creek, Mud Creek Canyon and Konwakiton Glaciers 111
    5 Skiing, Snowboarding, and Ski-touring . . . . . . .115
    6 Water Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
    7 Mountain Biking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
    8 Flora and Fauna . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145
    9 Geology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .155
    10 Amenities, Sources and Other Information . . . .161
    Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
    Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
    Map Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174
    Aerial Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174
    About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175