Mount Shasta, California, USA Monochrome

by Aurelia Schanzenbacher

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Mount Shasta, California, USA Monochrome

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Aurelia Schanzenbacher

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This is my view traveling from state of California to my home in Oregon. Mount Shasta is The oldest-known human settlement in the area dates to about 7,000 years ago. Mount Shasta. Shasta rises to nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) above its surrounding area. On a clear winter day, the mountain can be seen from the floor of the Central Valley 140 miles (230 km) to the south. The mountain consists of four overlapping dormant volcanic cones that have built a complex shape, including the main summit and the prominent satellite cone of 12,330 ft (3,760 m) Shastina, which has a visibly conical form. If Shastina were a separate mountain, it would rank as the fourth-highest peak of the Cascade Range. During the last 10,000 years, Mount Shasta has erupted an average of every 800 years, but in the past 4,500 years the volcano has erupted an average of every 600 years.

At the time of Euro-American contact in the 1820s, the Native American tribes who lived within view of Mount Shasta included the Shasta, Okwanuchu, Modoc, Achomawi, Atsugewi, Karuk, Klamath, Wintu, and Yana. The first reliably reported land sighting of Mount Shasta by a European or American was by Peter Skene Ogden (a leader of a Hudson's Bay Company trapping brigade) in 1826. In 1827, the name "Sasty" or "Sastise" was given to nearby Mount McLoughlin by Ogden.[18] An 1839 map by David Burr lists the mountain as Rogers Peak.[19] This name was apparently dropped, and the name Shasta was transferred to present-day Mount Shasta in 1841, partly as a result of work by the United States Exploring Expedition.

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March 9th, 2022

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