A story about wind, storm snow avalanches, and ski mountaineering on California’s largest volcano
As originally published in the American Avalanche Association’s quarterly publication The Avalanche Review, Volume 37.4 in April 2019. Successive eruptions of hot ash and magma have created layer upon layer of lava-carved plains below the massive stratovolcano that is Mount Shasta. Shasta is perched 200 miles north of the Tahoe Basin and approximately 60 miles south […]