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Mount Shasta is a 14,179 foot (4,322 m) stratovolcano. It is the second highest peak in the Casade Range, and the fifth highest peak in California. It is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc. It is located in Siskiyou County, California, in the United States of America. It is considered to be one of the Sacred Mountains on Mother Earth.
Geological Facts about Mt. Shasta
Mount Shasta is 14,179 feet (4,322 m) high.
It is a stratovolcano.
It has an estimated volume of 108 cubic miles (450 km³), making it the
most voluminous stratovolcano of the Cascade Range.
It
is the second highest peak in the Casade Mountain Range, the highest being
Mt. Ranier, Washington,
14,410 feet (4,392 m).
It is the fifth highest peak in California, the highest being
Mt. Whitney 14,505 feet
(4,421 m).
It is part of the
Cascade Volcanic Arc, a range of volcanoes from Northern California to
Southern Canada.
It is located in Siskiyou County, California, United States of America, North
America, World.
It has one of the largest base-to-summit rises of the world's mountains, from
10,000 to 11,000 feet above the surrounding area.
It one of the great singular mountains, rising alone from the surrounding
countryside, unconnected to other mountain peaks, like
Mt. Fuji in Japan (12,388',
3,776m) a stratovolcano, and
Mt. Kilmanjaro in
Africa (19,340', 5,875m) a stratovolcano.
It has a sattelite cone, Shastina, 12,330 feet (3,758 m) to the west of
the main peak.
There are seven named
glaciers on
Shasta, with the four largest (Whitney,
Bolam,
Hotlum, and
Wintun) radiating down the from high on the main summit cone to below 10,000
ft (3,000 m) primarily on the north and east sides.
Experts estimate that the last eruption on Mt. Shasta was in 1800 CE.
Mt. Shasta
Bibliography, Links, Resources
Ascension Secrets, Alchemy, Teachings and Techniques from the Acended Master Saint Germain
Cloud Hands
Blog by Mike Garofalo
The
Complete Walker III: The Joys and Techniques of Hiking and Backpacking.
By Colin Fletcher. Illustrations by Vanna Prince. Third Edition, Revised,
Enlarged and Updated. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1968, 1984. Index, 668 pages. ISBN:
0394519620. VSCL.
The
Dayhiker's Handbook: An All-Terrain, All-Season Guide. By John
Long and Michael Hodgson. Camden, Maine, Ragged Mountain Press, 1996. Index, appencices, 216 pages. ISBN: 0070291462. An excellent
guide to preparing for and enjoying long day walks in the desert, mountains, jungles, canyons and streams, in the forest and along the coast. Practical tips and useful
advice. VSCL.
Imagine, Ritual Spaces, Mt. Shasta
Meditation Walks Around Mt. Shasta
The Mt. Shasta Book: A Guide to Hiking, Climbing, Skiing and Exploring the Mountain
and Surrounding Area
Mt.
Shasta: California's Mystic Mountain. By Emilie A. Frank.
Klamath River, CA, Living Gold Press, 1998, 2006. Bibliography, 210 pages. ISBN: 1888740086. VSCL.
Mt. Shasta Chamber of Commerce
Mt. Shasta Fact Sheet, College of the Siskiyou's Written by
William Miesse. 4 pages. 2005
Mt. Shasta Fact Sheet with References, College of the Siskiyou's.
Written by William Miesse. 34 pages.
Mt.
Shasta: History, Legend and Lore. By Michael Zanger. Berkeley,
CA, Celestial
Arts, 1992. References, 120 pages. ISBN: 0890876746. VSCL.
Walking Quotations 1 Walking Quotations 2 Walking Quotations 3 Walking Quotations 4 Walking Quotations 5
Walking Quotations 6 Walking Meditation Ways of Walking Website Cloud Hands Blog
Mt. Shasta Magazine: New Age,
Spirituality
On Assignment with Adama: Mt. Shasta, Telos, Lemuria, and Sacred Earth Sites,
Book I. By Susan Isabelle.
Author House, 2005. 296 pages. ISBN: 1420842781.
Photo Gallery for Mount
Shasta
Places to Visit in the
Mt. Shasta Area The Sacred Center of Mt. Shasta.
Secrets
from Mt. Shasta. By Earlyne C. Chaney. Astara, 1953.
77 pages. ISBN: 0918936101.
Shasta Abbey Buddhist Monastery
Shasta Vortex Adventures.
Tours, Retreats, Adventures. Organized by Ashalyn.
Soul Connections. A
Golden Age Emporium.
Valley Spirit Center, Red
Bluff, California
VSCL = Valley Spirit Center Library. Home library of Mike and Karen
Garofalo.
Walking: Bibliography,
Links, Quotations. By Mike Garofalo.
Walking Meditation. By Mike Garofalo.
Wesak
Celebration, Early May, Mt. Shasta
Where
the Lightning Strikes: The Lives of American Indian Sacred Places. By
Peter Nabokov. New York, Viking, 2006. Index, bibliography, 250
pages. ISBN: 0670034320. Includes discussion of California sacred
places such as Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tamalpais near San Francisco Bay, Yosemite,
and Mt. Shasta and Klamatha/Trinity Rivers (pp.264-300).
Mt. Shasta
and Mountains
Quotations: Facts, Lore, Poetry, Information, Legends
"When I first caught sight of Mt. Shasta, over the braided folds
of the Sacramento Valley, I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary.
Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since."
- John Muir, 1874
"In the last few decades Mount Shasta has become known locally as one of the
‘Seven Sacred Mountains of the World,’ however there is no officially recognized
world list of seven sacred mountains and regional lists of sacred mountains (of
the Navaho people or of China, for example) do not include Shasta. Nonetheless
Shasta as a sacred mountain does have a well established and widespread legacy.
To generations of Native Americans the mountain was and is a highly important
place of reverence and a place of balance between earth and universe. To early
Californian explorers, climbers, and settlers it was a source of awe and
inspiration. To travel writers of the late 1800’s it was “The Keystone of
California Scenery” and “California’s Fuji-san.” But it was in the early
20th century that three books firmly established Shasta’s reputation as a most
unusual and sacred mountain. These three books, A Dweller on Two Planets,
Lemuria, and Unveiled Mysteries, gave Shasta a body of myth
and legend that is perhaps unrivaled in all of North American mountain
literature."
- William Meisse,
Mt. Shasta Fact Sheet, 2005
"Mount Shasta, a 14,179-foot (4,322 m)[1]
stratovolcano, is the second-highest peak in the
Cascade Range and the
fifth highest peak in
California.
It is a member in the
Cascade Volcanic Arc and is located in
Siskiyou County, and has an estimated volume of 108 cubic miles (450 km³),
making it the most voluminous stratovolcano of the Cascades.[5]
Physically unconnected to any nearby mountain, and rising abruptly from miles of
level ground which encircle it, Mount Shasta stands some 10,000 feet (3,000 m)
above the surrounding area.
- Mt. Shasta,
Wikipedia
Great Altar above the Sacramento Valley
White Pyramid below the Winter Moon
Grey-black Stratovolcano shimmering in the Summer Sun
Lonely as Olympus on the New Moon
Surrounded by the bowing Black Forests of NorCalifia
- Mike Garofalo, Genus loci Giganticus
"And well this Golden State shall thrive, if like its own Mount Shasta, sovereign law shall lift itself in pure atmosphere - so high." -- John Rollin Ridge, 1854
"The Mount Shasta Region has been a
destination for relaxation and rejuvenation since the late 1800's with its
pristine glacial waters, natural mineral springs, pure mountain air and
unsurpassed alpine scenery. Mount Shasta, at 14,612 feet elevation, is
internationally recognized as a sacred energy vortex. It attracts thousands of
people year-round for personal and group retreats and workshops, spiritual
pilgrimages, vision quests, healing and such. The many indigenous Native
Americans that once lived around the mountain have always considered Mount
Shasta to be sacred ground, especially above tree line. Even today, they
continue their sacred ceremonies there."
- Shasta Vortex
Adventures
"Our way is not soft grass,
it's a mountain path with lots of rocks.
But it goes upward, forward, toward the sun."
- Ruth Westheimer
"Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the
vast universe rather than to our own planet."
- James Dwight Dana, 1849
"I first met
Chang San-Feng above the forest,
near the clear spring,
when gathering clouds darkened the day,
and Mt. Shasta was silent.
His long beard was black as
emptiness,
ear lobes to his shoulders,
holding obsidian in his hand,
pointing to the sun,
eyes staring into infinity,
his long body clothed in silence.
We exchanged "hellos"
smiled and bowed,
a barbarian and an Immortal,
both panting from the climb,
laughing,
ten-thousand echoes
between our rocky minds.
After billions upon billions of
heartbeats past
(for he must have been 888 years old),
I was so bold
as to ask the ancient one
for the sacred mantra of yore.
He lifted his whisk,
and brushed my face,
I could not speak,
my lips were stone,
ideas stopped -
I was alone."
- Michael P. Garofalo,
Meetings with Master
Chang San-Feng
Walking Quotations 1 Walking Quotations 2 Walking Quotations 3 Walking Quotations 4 Walking Quotations 5
Walking Quotations 6 Walking Meditation Ways of Walking Website Cloud Hands Blog
"Climb the mountains and get their
good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like falling leaves."
- John Muir
"My father considered a walk among the
mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing."
- Aldous Huxley
"Farewell we call to hearth and hall!
Though wind may blow and rain may fall.
We must away ere the break of day.
Far over wood and mountain tall."
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
"In the evening, I walked alone down to the
Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn coloring of night
draw on, the last gleam of sunshine fading away on the hilltops, the seep serene
of the asters, and the long shadows of the mountains thrown across them, till
they nearly touched the hithermost shore. At distance hear the murmur of
many waterfalls not audible in the day-time. Wished for the moon, but she
was dark to me and silent, hid in her vacant interlunar cave."
- Thomas Gray, Journal in the Lakes
"From thought to thought, from mountain
peak to mountain.
Love leads me on; for I can never still
My trouble on the world's well beaten ways."
- Petrarch, Ode 17
"The silence of landscape conceals vast
presence. Place is not simply location. A place is a profound individuality.
With complete attention, landscape celebrates the liturgy of the seasons, giving
itself unreservedly to the passion of the goddess. The shape of a landscape is
an ancient and silent form of consciousness. Mountains are huge contemplatives.
Rivers and streams offer voice; they are the tears of the earth's joy and
despair. The earth is full of soul ….. Civilization has tamed place. Left to
itself, the curvature of the landscape invites presence and the loyalty of
stillness."
- John O'Donohue, Anam Cara
"Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes
the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so
merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that
mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without
discomfort."
- Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey
“The heights charm us, but the
steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"There’s all sorts of walking—from heading out across
the desert in a straight line to a sinuous weaving through undergrowth.
Descending rocky ridges and talus slopes is a specialty in itself. It is an
irregular dancing—always shifting—step of walk on slabs and scree. The breath
and eye are always following this uneven rhythm. It is never paced or clocklike,
but flexing—little jumps—sidestep—going for the well-seen place to put a foot on
a rock, hit flat, move on—zigzagging along and all deliberate. The alert eye
looking ahead, picking the footholds to come, while never missing the step of
the moment. The body-mind is so at one with this rough world that it makes these
moves effortlessly once it has had a bit of practice. The mountain keeps up with
the mountain … The landscape can become both ritual and meditation."
- Gary Snyder
"The tendency nowadays to wander in
wilderness is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken,
over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is
going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain parks and
reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers,
but as fountains of life.
- John Muir, Our National Parks
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
"When you walk in the mountains stands of
cedar, among the wise old elder trees, anything you want to know you can find
there."
- Saying of the Lummi Tribe of Puget Sound
Mt. Shasta
Notes, Observations, Comments by Mike Garofalo
Summer 2012
8/10/2012 Climbed from Bunny Flat to Horse Camp and day adventures
Summer 2010-2011
Numerous trips to areas south of Mt. Shasta. Numerous trips through the area on the way to and from Oregon. Took numerous visitors up to the mountain.
July 2009
Climbed Grey Butte and hiked on south side of Shasta. Numerous trips through the area on the way to and from Oregon. Extensive touring in area south of Mr. Shasta.
Our Chrysler minivan broke down near McCloud, and we spent three days in Mt. Shasta City.
August 2008
Two trips up to the McCloud River Falls area, Burney Falls, and south side of Shasta. Numerous trips through the area on the way to and from Oregon.
June 29, 2007, Friday
Karen and I spent some time on The Mountain and in Mt. Shasta City today. We enjoyed visiting the the spring at the Mt. Shasta City Park that is called the "headwaters of the Sacramento River." Many children were using the park for a children's summer camp program. A group of 10 adults were gathered in a circle in a far corner of the lawn of the park and were involved with a pagan ritual and shaking rattles. The spring in this park gushes out of the side of The Mountain (Mt. Shasta) and into this densely forested park. Hundreds of creeks and streams drain from the surrounding mountains down the canyons into the Sacramento River, flowing south to Sacramento, and then west into San Francisco Bay.
We drove up above Panther Meadows to the end of Everett Highway. We spent some time at the picnic area enjoying the views to the south. Today, we enjoyed very comfortable temperatures in the mid 60's. There was very little snow this year on Mt. Shasta.
Numerous trips through the area on the way to and from Oregon.
Mike Garofalo, South Side of Mt. Shasta, 7,500 feet
Sacred Mountains of the World
Mt. Kailash in Tibet (21,778', 6,638m), sacred to Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, and Bon religions.
Mt. Shasta in California, USA, (14,179', 4,322m) sacred to Native Americans, Neo-Pagans, New Agers.
Mt.
Random Gatherings:
Images of Mt. Shasta
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Green Way
Research, Valley Spirit Center, Red Bluff, California
Michael P. Garofalo, All Rights Reserved
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