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Mount Shasta's west face as seen from Hidden Valley high on the mountain. The west face gulley is an alternate climbing route to the summit. Mount Shasta can release volcanic ash, pyroclastic flows or dacite and andesite lava. Its deposits can be detected under nearby small towns. Mount Shasta has an explosive, eruptive history.
For full definitions and explanations of topographic prominence, key col, and parent, see topographic prominence. In particular, the different definitions of the parent of a peak are addressed at length in that article. Height on the other hand simply means elevation of the summit above sea level.
Shastina has a topographic prominence of over 450 ft (137 m) above the saddle connecting it with Shasta and easily exceeds the typical mountaineering standard of 300 feet (91 m) for a peak to qualify as an independent summit, yet most lists of Cascade volcanoes omit it nonetheless. The name "Shastina" is a diminutive of Shasta.
Of the most isolated major summits of California, Mount Whitney exceeds 2000 kilometers (1243 miles) of topographic isolation, Mount Shasta exceeds 500 kilometers (310.7 miles), four peaks exceed 200 kilometers (124.3 miles), and nine peaks exceed 100 kilometers (62.14 miles) of topographic isolation.
Black Butte (formerly Wintoon Butte, Cone Mountain, Sugar Loaf and Muir's Peak [5]) is a cluster of overlapping dacite lava domes in a butte, [2] a satellite cone of Mount Shasta. [6] It is located directly adjacent to the northbound lanes of Interstate 5 at milepost 742 between the cities of Mount Shasta and Weed, California. The I-5 freeway ...
The snow-capped mountains, such as Mt. Hood and Mt. Bachelor, are used as ski resorts in the late winter, while in the summer they become popular hiking and mountaineering locations. Much of their meltwater eventually flows into reservoirs, where it is used for recreation, while its potential energy is captured to generate hydroelectric power ...
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the tip of a mountain above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
The wilderness was the ancestral home to the Okwanuchu Shasta people. The Crags were also revered by the Indigenous people surrounding them including the Wintu , Achumawi and Modoc people. Many features of the Castle Crags Wilderness are considered sacred to Native Americans including all of the streams, the Sacramento River , and the region's ...