McBride Sprs CG to Weed to Juanita Lake CG

Juanita Lake USFS CG, Siskiyou County, CA

    The water at the McBride Springs Campground appears to be snow melt. It's the coldest water I've ever seen during 53 year of backpacking with the exception or 2 or 3 trips during late Oct or early Nov when there was already snow on the ground.
    Here's a 3 p.m. view of Mount Shasta from the spot north of Weed where I stopped to eat lunch. Note that the Weed landfill is closed. [Are they shipping their garbage to SF? :-)>]

 

    Lake Shastina, 3000 ft, located to the north-west of Mt Shasta, 14,162 ft. The view is from US97, a busy truck route from Weed, California to Klamath Falls, Oregon.

 

 

    After taking the above photo I turned around and noted that Mt Shasta was cloudless.

 

 

 

 

 

    California State Historical Marker # 517. [Click 1 or 2 times to enlarge, making the words more readable despite the bird droppings. (Incidentally, the Marker begins with "As early as 1852 wagon trains of overland emigrants crossed 600 feet to the north....")

 

 

    The first of 4 historical plaques by CalTrans at a Vista Point not far from Grassy Lake Summit (elev: 5101'). If you're interested in the many routes emigrants took to California, I'd recommend George R. Stewart's The California Trail.

 

 

 

 

 

    Indian beliefs about Mt Shasta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Some new info re Mt Shasta (at least for me). Has anyone ever heard of a French explorer name La Perouse? He apparently witnessed the 1786 eruption of Mt Shasta from his ship off the coast of Northern California.

 

 

 

    Mount Shasta's long evolution and its place in the Pacific Ocean's "Rim of Fire."

 

 

 

 

 

    So when will the next eruption be? And where was the earth's most massive landslide?

 

 

 

 

    A final view [I think] of Mt Shasta from the location of the above CalTrans plaques. As noted above the black butte to the left is not called Black Butte, a very common name here in California as well as in the southwestern U.S., but rather "Whaleback Mountain."
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Links:
[To follow later]

W 27 Jul Actual Route: McBride Springs CG - Mt Shasta - Weed - US97 - Juanita Lake USFS CG

Th 28 Jul Actual Route: Juanita Lake CG - Klamath Falls - Chiloquin Jcn - Walt's RV Park (on the Williamson River)

F 29 Jul Actual Route: Walt's RV Park - Chiloquin - Crater Lake NP

Sa 30 Jul Actual Route: Crater Lake - Diamond Lake

Su 31 Jul Actual Route: Diamond Lake - Chemult - LaPine - Bend - Tumalo St Pk CG

M 1 Aug Route: Tumalo St Pk CG - Bend - Sisters

Shingletown to Shasta Lake to Mt Shasta

McBride Springs CG

    After a few stops in Redding at the VA Clinic and a gas station I headed north. Unfortunately, there are very few Vista Points on I-5 where one can take photos of Shata Lake. I drove down one road (Turntable Rd) to take the photo you see to the right. The mountains with snow in the background are in Lassen NP, which only opened recently.

 

    A first view of Mt Shasta from I-5 perhaps 10-15 miles north of Shasta Lake; as you can see, this view is from a gravel shoulder and not a Vista Point. [Click 1 or 2 times to zoom in.]

 

 

 

    A Vista Point which, until I parked to take another photo of Mt Shasta, was populated by idling semis. [Don't know how the truckers can sleep with so much diesel exhaust in the area, but I guess they either learn or croak!]

 

 

    A shot to the southwest from McBride Springs CG to the Castle Crags State Park west of Dunsmuir. [Click 1 or 2 times and look along the ridge-line in the center of the photo.]

 

 

 

 

    Mt Shasta as seen from the USFS McBride Springs Campground.

 

 

 

 

 

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Links:

• Wikipedia article on Mount Shasta, California's 5th highest peak
• Extensive history of Mount Shasta

W 27 Jul Actual Route: McBride Springs CG - Mt Shasta - Weed - US97 - Juanita Lake USFS CG

Th 28 Jul Route: Juanita Lake CG - Klamath Falls - Chiloquin Jcn - Walt's RV Park (on the Williamson River)