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Mount Shasta

FROM WIKIPEDIA

 

Mount Shasta is connected to nearby Mount Shastina, and they dominate the northern California landscape.

 

It rises abruptly and stands nearly 10,000 ft above the surrounding terrain. On a clear winter day, snowy Mount Shasta can be seen from the floor of the Central Valley 140 miles to the south. The mountain has attracted the attention of poets, authors, and presidents.

 

The mountain consists of four overlapping volcanic cones that have built a complex shape, including the main summit and the prominent satellite cone of 12,330 ft Shastina, which has a visibly conical form.

 

If Shastina were a separate mountain, it would rank as the fourth-highest peak of the Cascade Range (after Mount Rainier, Rainier's Liberty Cap, and Mount Shasta itself).

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Uploaded on January 18, 2017