Lassen from last Sunday. First pic taken from Cinder Cone later that day. Skiing was excellent - firm, chalky winter snow, with patches of overnight graupel about 3 inches deep. About 30 minutes to...

Lee what was the overall outcome for the Lava Fire? Inciweb suggests most of the really bad outcomes were avoided. Hope so. https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7581/

Was driving through town on my...

Thanks for the update, Dark E! Good work - everybody I know was scared off of Shasta by the horrific conditions reports.

Did our annual Mem Day trip to Lassen with a huge crew - 13 campsites! The...

Lassen NP is still completely closed per their website.

go get it gimpy & hankey!

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not as steep as 'Tina, but always worthy to drop direct from 14k. We'll call it the gimpy-hankey headwall

Yeah man, we were ogling that thing hard. We couldn't believe it, but there was a chute that went all the way through, except for a chockstone about 150 (??) feet down. Hard to judge relative scale,...

Whitney was cruiser. All snowbridges were still covered with winter snowpack, but the big one/two at the top were starting to open. It looked like at least 2-4 weeks before things would start to open...

Shasta is skiing as good as it gets. Snowpack is unreal, and we got a nice solid freeze to below Bunny on Sunday. Get some!
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Well that explains why I didn't recognize it.... Nicely done and thanks for the reports!

Lee-murian slayage. ETA: schralphy beat me to it!

Where did you skin up? Behind Casaval? I don't see a track going up right of red banks.

Saw this pic on the gram, and noticed my pants were...

Shasta is fully pasted and fully on. https://www.snowcrest.net/camera/

Man...I'm really starting to feel an awful fever...and I'm weak and coughing hack hack hack. Probably should just stay home...

Yabba dabba doobie it's on. Up to 81 inches predicted for Helen (10,400) through Sat night.

ThursdaySnow. High near 36. Windy, with a southwest wind 55 to 65 mph increasing to 70 to 80 mph. Winds...

I bet Shasta gets crushed above 9k. Helen Lake forecast looks gooooooodddddddd http://shastaavalanche.org/weather/forecasts/current-helenlake

As of 10/9:...

Skied (or attempted to ski) Hotlam-Bolum yesterday. Snow line was about 9000 from Northgate TH. A foot of new snow and strong south winds led to windjacked new winter snow above 10.5. Far from powder...

Lassen summit weather: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=40.487656013000446&lon=-121.5049789679997#.V2RoJDUrKUl

Point forecasts lower down suggest rain. Based on the point forecasts for...

Assuming the roads are clear (which I don't think they are), I recall the dirt roads being in good shape (ie., no 4x4 required) to Brewer Creek TH.

Anyone have beta on coverage for the north side...

Any reports from Shasta this season?

With these wee little cold storms in Tahoe, the big beacon of the north doesn't pull so strong.

But telemetry shows 21 inches of snow on the ground at...

A buddy (that's telek, incalescent) skied angel wings (off Shastina's north side) on Friday and reported excellent conditions.

I'll be heading up to Shasta this w/e for a single day, either Saturday or Sunday. Looks like the weather might be more stable on Sunday, but schedule-wise, Saturday would be better for me. Anybody...

It is possible to skin up it. Depends on your skill and the snow, but that goes without saying. You might need to switch to booting at the top. I think it maxes out about 40 degrees, maybe...

All of the sudden buying a sled in California has a lot more appeal. There is some great terrain just at the top of the ski bowl....

Good to know. I had no idea sleds were allowed.

Um. Are snowmobiles allowed on Shasta? If not, can anyone explain the pics here: http://www.shastaavalanche.org/#null

10-4. If I'm there, which seems likely, I'll be in a skittle blue trew jacket and green pants.

But THIS is life-beta!!

Excellent beta - thank you!

Bumping -- anyone got intel on snow depth?? The snow sensor at 6700 feet at Sand Flat shows nothing on it yet (http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryDaily?SDF) but the webcam looks pretty good! ...

LR, any chance you can beta from your source on snow depth? Are there snotels somewhere up there?? I'd take 24 inches of base in a heartbeat.

Shasta is looking pretty durn white: http://www.webcams.travel/webcam/1186676489-Weather-Mount-Shasta-Mount-Shasta

Anyone head out there yet? Alternatively, what trailhead do folks recommend for...

Aka "The Muddy One" in Wintu language. Appropriately named, apparently.

August pic of Shasta. Never seen it this dry. From KQED (http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/09/03/california-drought-snapshot-snowless-mount-shasta/)

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Skied Lassen on Sunday. Skinned SE face from the pass, and barely connected snow to the summit and ended by booting the upper ridge. Dropped in at 8:30, and glad we weren't any later! Weak refreeze...

Oh and Bunny Flat at 6700 feet has a base of 54-103 inches, which is pretty average (ie. deep) for this time of year.

Here's the latest:

Smooth and very good skiing conditions were found yesterday above 8,300 feet on the south side of Mt. Shasta...however below that, while the snow was supportable, very sticky...

I asked the same on the E. Sierra thread. Schralphmacchio said:

I don't have Shasta beta, but I was at Lassen 2 weeks ago and that's all in pretty good shape. I left my long lens at home so my...