Pictures of Mt Shasta via Clearcreek

(Copyright © 2007 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me

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Highlights

From start to end

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The left turn off Highway 89 into Pilgrim Rd
Pilgrim Rd
Pilgrim Rd
Pilgrim Rd

The turn into the dirt road
The dirt road
The dirt road
Frequent signs

The major junction (go straight)
The last turn (left)
Impassable sand
Nearby area to park

The trailhead
The trailhead
The trailhead
The trailhead

The beginning of the trail
The Clearcreek trail
The Clearcreek trail
Coasting the Mudcreek Canyon

First views of Mt Shasta (the summit block is very visible in the back)
Mt Shasta above the Mudcreek Canyon
Mt Shasta above the Mudcreek Canyon
Mudcreek Canyon

Mt Shasta
The trail through the forest
The trail through the forest
Mt Shasta

Mt Shasta through the forest
Mudcreek Canyon
Mudcreek Canyon
The beginning of Mudcreek Canyon

The beginning of Mudcreek Canyon
The trail
Mudcreek Canyon
Emerging from the forest

Mt Shasta
Mt Shasta
Mt Shasta
The route

The trail
Mt Shasta above Clearcreek Meadow
Mt Shasta above Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow

At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow

At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow

At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow
At Clearcreek Meadow

Sunrise on Shasta's east face
Shasta's east face in june 2013

Views from Clearcreek camp
Views from Clearcreek camp
Views from Clearcreek camp
Views from Clearcreek camp

The Fort and the Summit block
Beginning the sandy ascent
Beginning the sandy ascent
Beginning the sandy ascent

Mudcreek Canyon (the left ridge is where the trail was in the forest)
This is the place where the trail emerged from the forest and entered the meadow
Up the sandy trail
Up the sandy trail

The place we came from
Up the sandy trail
And finally the view of the Fort above
Towards the Fort

The meadow below
Towards the Fort
The sandy trail towards the Fort and the Striped Rock to the left
The Fort

The sandy trail towards the Fort
Towards the Fort
Mudcreek Canyon
Towards the Fort

Towards the Fort
Towards the Fort
The right wall of Mudcreek Canyon
The right wall of Mudcreek Canyon

The right wall of Mudcreek Canyon
The Fort (and Red Banks in the distance on the left)
Towards the Fort
Mudcreek Canyon

Towards the Fort
Red Banks and Thumb Rock
The Striped Rock
The Fort

The trail
The trail
The trail
The Striped Rock to the left of the trail

The Fort and the Milestone Rock to its right
The Milestone Rock
Looking down

The sandy trail
Towards the Milestone Rock
Milestone Rock
Climbing the Fort

Climbing the Fort
Climbing the Fort
Looking down
Climbing the Fort

Climbing the Fort
Climbing the Fort
Misery Hill
The summit block appears behind Misery Hill

Above the Castle
Above the Castle
Looking down
Misery Hill and the summit block

Misery Hill
Misery Hill
Misery Hill
Looking down

Summit block
Summit block
Summit block
View northeast

Towards the summit block
Towards the summit block
Towards the summit block
The glacier above Red Banks

The summit block
Coasting that glacier
Coasting that glacier
At the bottom of the summit block

At the bottom of the summit block
At the bottom of the summit block
At the bottom of the summit block
Remnant of the Shasta monument

Remnant of the Shasta monument
Not much of a glacier in september
Geyser
Geyser

The summit
Glaciers to the south and west
Scrambling to the top

Scrambling to the top
Dog at the top
Dog at the top
The north glacier (and the route we came from)

Hiker signing the register
The other end of the summit

The summit
Shastina from the top
View from the top
Lassen

View from the top

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(Copyright © 2007 Piero Scaruffi)
If you would like the original, high-resolution pictures, contact me