written and photographed by Jeffrey L. Peachin and Kristin Byrd
Sep 2000, Vol. 4 No. 11
Three of us stood on the 14,200-foot summit of Mt. Shasta and cheered. We saluted our mountaineering achievement by alternating raising our ice axes then snapping photographs of the scenic valley, landscaped with sulfur lakes and the crevassed glaciers of Bolam, Hotlum, Wintun, Whitney, and Konwakitom. After signing the summit book, we descended back down the trail until the snow was soft enough to glissade the next three hours to our base camp at 9,000-feet.