A continuation of my trip north:
What's that in the distance?
A few more miles up and it is much closer
Oh, there it is!
Mt. Shasta, the second southern-most cascade volcano (Lassen is the furthest south). Still covered in glaciers in late August
The freeway goes by Castle Crags State Park, where a granitic extrusion created these immense, complicated cliffs popular with climbers
This is a spatter cone volcano, likely very dormant. They have ski runs on another one of these closer to the mountain
I went up a little further to hang out in Weed, Ca. It is just too funny of a name, and if you see below, they have a 'Cougar Cafe', I'm not sure if this is a retiree community...
The forest ends at the tree line, about half way up the slopes
And it creates its own weather. The clouds form and are shaped by the mountain, in this case, they arch above/around the summit
From my camping spot
At sunset it went crazy pretty
These colors don't do it justice, it turned pink and then purple
Almost gone
Bye bye sun
The morning brought very cool cloud formations
One of the volcanic remnants, I liked the red dirt on top
The summit, also with a touch of red
Wispy clouds go by
So etherial on the slopes
More mountain cloud formations, see them dome over the promontories
A mini volcano in the sky
This is the crags from about the tree line
It just went forever with the mist of forest fires all around
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