Lassen Blue
Looking south across Manzanita Lake towards the still snow-covered peak of Mount Lassen, in late spring. This is the northern end of Lassen Volcanic National Park, an oft-overlooked jewel in northern California, where the Sierra Nevada meets the Cascade Range.
The lake is at about 5,800 feet (1768 meters) of elevation, while the summit of Lassen is at 10,457 ft (3187 m). Lassen is the southernmost volcano in the Cascades, and with a volume of 0.5 cu miles (2 km3), it is one of the largest lava domes on Earth. The volcanic eruptions of 1914-17 devastated the northeast slopes of the mountain, but left this side relatively unscathed. Mount Lassen has the highest known winter snowfall amounts in California, with an average annual snowfall of 660 inches (1,676 cm), and in some years, more than 1,000 inches (2,500 cm) of snow falls at its base altitude of 8,250 ft (2,515 m) at Lake Helen. The Lassen area receives more precipitation (rain, sleet, hail, snow, etc.) than anywhere in the Cascade Range south of the Three Sisters volcanoes in Oregon. The heavy annual snowfall here has created fourteen permanent patches of snow on and around the mountain top, despite Lassen's rather modest elevation, but no glaciers.
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Lassen Blue
Looking south across Manzanita Lake towards the still snow-covered peak of Mount Lassen, in late spring. This is the northern end of Lassen Volcanic National Park, an oft-overlooked jewel in northern California, where the Sierra Nevada meets the Cascade Range.
The lake is at about 5,800 feet (1768 meters) of elevation, while the summit of Lassen is at 10,457 ft (3187 m). Lassen is the southernmost volcano in the Cascades, and with a volume of 0.5 cu miles (2 km3), it is one of the largest lava domes on Earth. The volcanic eruptions of 1914-17 devastated the northeast slopes of the mountain, but left this side relatively unscathed. Mount Lassen has the highest known winter snowfall amounts in California, with an average annual snowfall of 660 inches (1,676 cm), and in some years, more than 1,000 inches (2,500 cm) of snow falls at its base altitude of 8,250 ft (2,515 m) at Lake Helen. The Lassen area receives more precipitation (rain, sleet, hail, snow, etc.) than anywhere in the Cascade Range south of the Three Sisters volcanoes in Oregon. The heavy annual snowfall here has created fourteen permanent patches of snow on and around the mountain top, despite Lassen's rather modest elevation, but no glaciers.
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