How to visit Mount Shasta, a large dormant volcano in California

In our coast-to-coast road trip through the United States, today we leave San Francisco en route north.

At midnight we brought our friends to the airport Pains y Miquel, so we had to rest in two parts, more bad than good, so we started this day alone again Aurora and me.

We had a really good time with this great couple, sharing a really beautiful part of our itinerary from Phoenix to San Francisco.

We have traveled together, among other places, the Monument Valley, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, sequoia park y San Francisco and surrounding areas.

Fifteen days "to remember forever".

On this journey of transition to the north, we crossed all of California that was left to us, almost 600 kilometers across. places full of forests, mountains and fabulous places for mountain fans.

The highway crossed alongside large mountains, in a continuous up and down, with immense views of vegetation that seems endless and unexplored.

What to see in Shasta

During the route we have deviated from the road to visit the Shasta Forest, national park with extensive forests and lakes.

In the latter there were quite a few marinas where people arrived with their enormous pick ups I motorhomes with large towed boats that descended easily and quickly to the lake.

Other visitors did picnic on barbecues in places designated for this purpose.

The country's recreational infrastructure is truly wonderful and the purchasing power of the people is incredible, due to the large number of people who can afford it.

In the final stretch of our route today we have passed by the Mount Shasta, a dormant volcano that usually explodes every 600 years (the last one was about 200 years ago).

According to the mythology of the local people, the great glaciers of the mountain are “the marks of God's feet when one day the Earth came".

At Mount Shasta A strange phenomenon occurs: in the last 60 years, glaciers have almost doubled in size, contrary to the general trend resulting from global warming.

El Mount Shasta (“White Mountain”) It is 4.322 meters high.

It is the largest volcano in the mountain range and is not connected to any nearby mountains.

It rises abruptly and is about 3.000 meters above the surrounding terrain.

The mountain has attracted the attention of poets, authors and even presidents.

Thus, the former president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, said: “I consider the evening twilight on Mount Shasta to have been one of the greatest sights I have ever witnessed.”

Mt Shasta City y dunsmuir, the small towns located near the western base of Shasta, are nerve centers for many religions, ranging from a Buddhist monastery (Shasta Abbey) to the current rituals of some group of Native American Indians.

"I am Activity"Of Guy Ballard, and the "Prophet Universal and Triumphant Church"Of Elizabeth Clare, are probably the best known among the numerous groups that participate in the spiritual heritage of Mount Shasta.

Around 19 p.m. we arrived at the hotel in yreka, a town in northern California, very close to the state of Oregon, a small town of about 8.000 inhabitants.

In short, it has been a very pleasant day, on the road, but with a great, changing and attractive landscape. Big contrast compared to San Francisco. High temperature, about 36º.

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