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Mount Shasta Sunset

Mount Shasta Sunset is a photograph of one of the most beautiful mountains in the State of California.

Mount Shasta dominates the landscape of the Siskiyou area of Northern California. Mount Shasta has an estimated volume of 85 miles.

A Mount Shasta Sunset photograph shows the landscape of a mountain that is 14,179 feet in elevation. Mount Shasta is the second highest mountain in the Cascade Range and is the fifth highest peak in California.

Mount Shasta Sunset displays the origins of the descriptive name of “white” mountain as defined by both early California Indian Natives and Russian settler languages.

This beautiful mountain can be seen from as far away as 150 miles on a clear day. The mountain rises abruptly 10,000 feet above the surrounding terrain.

A Mount Shasta Sunset was best described by Theodore Roosevelt who said: “I consider the evening twilight on Mt. Shasta one of the grandest sights I have ever witnessed.”

There are seven named glaciers on Mount Shasta, with the four largest (Whitney, Bolam, Hotlum, and Wintun) radiating down from high on the main summit cone to below 10,000 feet primarily on the north and east sides. The Whitney Glacier is the longest and the Hotlum is the most voluminous glaciers in the state of California.

During the last 10,000 years Mount Shasta has erupted on an average of every 800 years but in the past 4,500 years the volcano has erupted an average of every 600 years. The last significant eruption is not certain but may have occurred 200 years ago. The United States Geological Survey considers Mount Shasta a dormant volcano, which will erupt again. It is impossible to pinpoint the date of next eruption, but it likely will occur within the next several hundred years.

Many people view Mount Shasta to have a spiritual significance. The lore of some of the Native Americans in the area held that Mount Shasta is inhabited by the spirit chief Skell who descended from heaven to the mountain’s summit. Mount Shasta has been a focus for non-native American legends, centered around a hidden city of advanced beings from the lost continent of Lemuria. The legend grew from an offhand mention of Lemuria in the 1880s, to a description of a hidden Lemurian village in 1925. In 1931, Wisar Spenle Cerve wrote a book, published by the Rosicrucians, about the hidden Lemurians of Mount Shasta that cemented the legend in many readers’ minds. In August 1987, believers in the spiritual significance of the Harmonic Convergence described Mount Shasta as one of a small number of global “power centers”.  Mount Shasta remains a focus of “New Age” attention.

A Mount Shasta Sunset is a beautiful site to see and on that I enjoy experiencing whenever I am within view of this dominating mountain.