Mount Lassen

Tanya on a Mount Lassen trail

Mount Lassen

Mount Lassen is one of my very favorite places on this great planet to be—and I mean anywhere on the mountain or in the whole Lassen area!

Mount Lassen itself is a splendid peak of stone, all set about with quiet forests, splashy streams, pretty lakes, sweet smelling high meadows—and as a bonus, good stinky sulfurous hot springs and nifty bubbling mud pools ‘cause its also an active volcano just biding its time until its next big blow!

Some winters there’s masses of snow—I mean feet on feet of that great ski stuff! Enough snow to mash cabin roofs and make the few year-round residents of Mill Creek or Mineral or even Chester long for spring!

Summers are cool and wonderful—the kind of cool that would lure Ishi and his Native American ilk back year after year until the European folks wiped them out--the kind of cool that today’s sweating Redding or Red Bluff valley people dream of on their hundred-plus degree July nights.

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