I watched this video expecting a lot more when I got to Shasta. I completed this in one day, starting at Bunny Flat at 2:30am, summiting around 11:30, I got back to the car at 3:30pm. We didn't need to put on crampons until Lake Helen but nothing below that was difficult. Red Banks was tough, Misery Hill is deceiving, you think you're near the summit but you're actually still quite a bit aways.
@@MKxpl Be sure to check out conditions (I use www.mountain-forecast.com/ and make sure you input the proper elevation on the left tab). Conditions at the top vs Bunny Flat are vastly different. I tried to summit in June but there was still snow falling and very low temps ( 6 degrees at the top and high winds) so I had to reschedule a few weekends. As for fitness, I'm in decent shape working out a few times a week ramping up before this trip. I think the hardest part for the people in my group wasn't the fitness but rather getting used to the elevation. Only half the group decided to summit. If you can spend the night before you make the ascent, I think it helps a good amount. This was the first time I had ever tried mountaineering, I have a lot of snowshoeing experience but nothing this steep and nothing this high prior to Shasta. I would recommend learning to glissade because you will want to do that instead of hiking back down to Lake Helen. Good luck on your adventure, MK!
The first recorded death on Mt. Shasta occurred during the USGS surveying expedition led by Gilbert Thompson in 1884. A young architecture student from Berkeley was doing summer work at 'plane table surveying' on the NE side of the mountain. He'd recently purchased a rifle new to him. While the rifle was slung over the saddle horn of his mule and Howard Norton Pomeroy, promising young son of the Dean of the Hastings Law School at Berkeley, was leading his mule down a steep slope through chaparral, the hammer was withdrawn by brush and released discharging a bullet into his left leg above the knee. His femoral artery was severed and he bled out alone on the mountain. The Sisson History Project
Thanks for sharing this video. My 67 year old dad just won a battle with cancer and immediately talked about a summit hike to celebrate. We are going to practice for a year, (he has a lot of rebuilding to do,) and do our climb in 2023. Videos like this are great for planning.
Peter Skene Ogden, a chief trader with the Hudson's Bay Company, is given credit for naming Mount Shasta on February 14, 1827, after the Native Americans who lived in the area.
