Mount Shasta, CA

September 23-26, 2010 We're in catch up mode again so posts for September and October will be photo heavy and word light.

Gold grassy folds sweep over the landscape on approach to the California border:

The California Poppy, the state flower, perks up the welcome sign:

Snow-capped Mount Shasta has the second highest peak in the Cascade Mountains:

Theodore Roosevelt said, "I consider the evening twilight on Mt. Shasta one of the grandest sights I have ever witnessed."

At a peak of 14,162 feet, Mount Shasta is the second largest volcano in the continental United States.

We stayed at Lake Siskiyou Camp-Resort, a wooded state park on the edge of Lake Siskiyou. That's Mount Shasta in the background.

Plenty of deer, raccoons, birds and other wildlife to explore ...

The park has a nice sand swimming beach and also a marina where we watched a weasel bound down the dock.

Every morning promised another one of Nature's masterpieces:

-P