“The map’s details do show a volcano, but they show it right on the coast, where there are clearly no volcanoes,” Ball says. Nearly all of California’s 16 volcanoes sit nestled along ...

Mount Shasta, in Northern California, is a massive snowcapped volcano surrounded by miles of pristine national forest. Legends, myths and entire religious movements have centered on its secrets.

MOUNT SHASTA casts an aura of power over an entire landscape. That is why people try to reach the 14,162-foot summit. The success rate is about 50 percent, as high-elevation weather is usually the ...

Couple took hike up Mount Shasta - the problem was coming down By Henry K. Lee , Chronicle Staff Writer June 25, 2008 Salvador Frias of Millbrae, who hiked off Mount Shasta with girlfriend ...

Evacuation warnings were issued Tuesday night north of Mount Shasta as Whitney Creek rose quickly. The warning area, indicated in yellow on the Zonehaven map below, includes rural neighborhoods in ...

The satellite spotted the mountain "poking its head through the layer of #wildfire #smoke and clouds across northern California yesterday," NOAA tweeted. "With an elevation of more than 14,000 ft ...