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Photographs of the Mount Shasta Ski Park - Castle Crags: Bliss - and Driving into Oregon in the Fog at night... on Highway #5...

Mount Shasta Ski Park California

Just me and the Caretaker here...

I introduced myself,

The Dog noticed me first...

Nice fellow... No trouble...

I wandered all over this Ski Resort...

There is a lot of snow on top of the Mountain,

but no chance of skiing down here...

Castle Crags near Highway #5 and Mount Shasta.

I Camped There once and Drove Up The Hill Towards Highway #3... Parked on a Dirt Road and Drank PURE WATER from a Creek. Snowmelt... Then I Took off My Clothes Except my shoes and Walked all over singing... I Experienced Bliss... When I Got Home, I told my wife and she said... That's Just Like the Dan Fogelberg Song Nether Lands...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALMVPqtVZPY

deer at my campsite

https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/stnf/recreation/ohv/recarea/?recid=6583&actid=29

hike to the waterfall

These trees leave a golden pollen on everything

waterfall at the headwaters of the Sacramento river

https://mountshastatrailassociation.org/trails/mccloud/mccloud-rivers-three-waterfalls/

Truck traveling North Towards Oregon on Highway 5 at Night.

As I approached the border, I Noticed that there were Many Trucks Parked by the side of the freeway... so I also parked on the shoulder of Highway 5 in front of a Logging truck and listened to the radio until dawn. Watched the Pretty Headlights of Trucks Driving Uphill Into California... My Opinion is that a Downgrade of 6% is too much at night in the rain and fog...

I remember that when we went backpacking we always went to the Ranger Station to get a fire permit. We told them where we were going and when we would be coming back. That way, if we didn't check back in, they would send a rescue team out to look for us.

It's entirely possible to fall down and break a leg in the back country and be unable to walk out. Plus, the rangers had local knowledge of what was interesting in their neighborhood. Waterfalls, good fishing, epic views... I always loved those USGS maps showing elevation and sometimes we would just walk to a hidden lake by navigation. "It's got to be just on the other side of that pass so... let's go!" It was a reasonable way to hike above timberline. Not so practical in the woods.

In the High Sierra, people would stack rocks on top of each other in order to mark trails. Above timber line, the ground is all granite and wearing a trail into the dirt just doesn't happen. We would walk to a stack of rocks, look for the next stack and walk there and then look for the next stack of rocks... and on and on... That way we were able to go backpacking using "Ducks" to navigate. Since it was impossible for rocks to stack themselves, we knew that people had gone there before and were marking the trail...