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8 unusual facts about Mount Shasta


Dan Holdsworth

In his images of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Mount St. Helens, Salt Lake City and Park City, we see stark, uninterrupted terrains where meaning is made through what it is absent, as much as what is seen.

Phacelia cookei

It is endemic to Siskiyou County, California, where it is known from just a few occurrences in the forest and scrub around Mount Shasta.

Saint Germain Foundation

Ballard was hiking on the slopes of Mount Shasta in California, and claimed Saint Germain appeared to him and began training him to be a "Messenger".

Sam Osman

She has, to date, one published children's novel, Quicksilver, which explores the themes of leylines, stone circles and ancient holy sites such as Stonehenge in England, Meroe in Sudan and Mount Shasta in the United States.

Sheep moth

The sheep moth has a 5.5-8.5 centimeter wingspan and a relatively slender body and (FW) wings that pink with a yellow streak in the middle and (HW) yellowish with variable black markings with an all-black form near Mount Shasta.

Skin Graft Records

On MTV's The Real World: Miami in 1996, cast member Sarah Becker frequently wore a red Mount Shasta band t-shirt.

Snowbank fungus

William Bridge Cooke was the first to discuss the snowbank fungi as a distinct ecological group in 1944 when he discussed the fungal flora of Mount Shasta in California.

Tule elk

This herd may have interbred with the introduced Rocky Mountain elk which were introduced near Mount Shasta.


Eliza Barchus

Traveling extensively in the Western United States from the 1890s through about 1920, she painted Cascade Range volcanoes such as Three Sisters, Mount Shasta, and Crater Lake; the Columbia River Gorge; Yellowstone Falls; Half Dome in Yosemite National Park; San Francisco Bay; Muir Glacier in Alaska, and hundreds of other spots.

Richard L. Tierney

Tierney has written widely on a variety of esoteric topics, such as the legends concerning Mount Shasta and Amne Machin.

Warm Strangers

"Shasta" was inspired by the view of snow-covered volcano Mount Shasta from the Interstate 5 highway.

Whipplea

Whipplea appears to have been first recorded in 1853 by the Scottish botanical explorer John Jeffrey in the Umpqua Valley near Mount Shasta, California, and named for Lieutenant Amiel Weeks Whipple (1817-1863), American surveyor and engineer.


see also

KSIZ

It was later purchased in 1984 by Tom Erickson of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, moved to Mount Shasta and renamed KWHO-FM.

Shasta–Trinity National Forest

The 500-mile Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway is an auto tour of northern California's volcanos and begins at Lassen Volcanic National Park, then to Mount Shasta and ends at Crater Lake National Park.