Hiking California's Mount Shasta Region: A Guide to the Region's Greatest Hikes

by Bubba Suess

Overview

Hiking California's Mount Shasta Region covers 50 hikes in the area for hikers of all abilities. Up-to-date trail information and miles and directions will be featured throughout, as well as sidebars on local culture, trivia, and wildlife. GPS coordinates are available for all trailheads.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493009848
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Series:	Regional Hiking Series
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	600,952
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

A native of Sonoma County in California’s wine country, Christopher “Bubba” Suess grew up hiking the trails on his home turf as well as those in the famed Sierra Nevada. His first backpacking trip at age five sparked a love affair with granite and rushing water. Deeply influenced by his parents to appreciate the outdoors and by his older brother to always strive and persevere, Bubba was further moved to value the conservation of wilderness during his time in the Boy Scouts. A four-year sojourn in Texas for graduate school forced Bubba to find beauty in more subtle places and areas that are generally overlooked. Now a resident of Mount Shasta in far northern California, he loves living a rural life, centered around time spent with his wife, Harmony, and three children.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1

Geography 3

History 6

Perspective and Change 8

Weather 9

Biological Diversity 10

Hazards 11

Camping 11

Water 12

Dogs 13

Maps 13

Trail Finder 15

Map Legend 19

Part I Mount Shasta City Trails 20

1 Lake Siskiyou 21

2 Box Canyon of the Sacramento River 27

3 Ney Springs Creek 30

4 Hedge Creek Falls 33

5 Elsa Rupp Preserve 36

6 Spring Hill 39

7 Gateway Trail 42

8 Black Butte 46

Part II Mount Shasta Trails 50

9 Horse Camp 51

10 Green Butte Ridge 56

11 Panther Meadow 60

12 Gray Butte 64

13 South Gate Meadow 67

14 Old Ski Bowl 71

15 Clear Creek 75

16 Brewer Creek 79

17 North Gate 83

18 Whitney Falls 87

Part III Shasta Valley and Cascade Crest Trails 92

19 Black Lava Trail 93

20 The Goosenest 97

21 Orr Lake 101

22 Juanita Lake 105

23 Pluto's Cave 108

24 Trout Lake 113

Part IV Scott Mountains Trails 118

25 Kangaroo Fen and Bull Lake 119

26 Caldwell Lakes 123

27 Bluff Lake and Cement Bluff 127

Part V Trinity Divide Trails 132

28 Deadfall Lakes and Mount Eddy 134

29 Sisson-Callaban Trail 140

30 Castle Lake Shore 147

31 Little Castle Lake and Mount Bradley 151

32 Heart Lake 155

33 Gray Rock Lakes 159

34 Soapstone Trail 163

35 Cliff Lakes 168

36 Gumboot Lake 173

37 Porcupine and Toad Lakes 177

38 Seven Lakes Basin 182

39 Tamarack and Twin Lakes 187

Part VI Castle Crags Trails 192

40 Root Creek 193

41 Castle Dome 197

42 Flume Trail 202

43 Burstarse Falls 206

44 Lower Castle Crags Traverse 210

45 Sacramento River 215

Part VII McCloud River Trails 219

46 McCloud Falls 220

47 McCloud River Trail 225

48 Squaw Valley Creek 232

49 Ash Camp to Ah-Di-Na 238

50 McCloud River Preserve 244

About the Author 249