Black Butte

mt.shasta photography



Freeway I-5 by Mt. Shasta City, north	Black Butte from Weed, looking south	Black Butte with Aurora Borealis


The view from the North Bridge crossing the freeway	Look in the cloud and see the face

Father Frost touched the trees one freezing morning	Fantastic Sunset photographed driving down from Mt. Shasta
		Black Butte is a cluster of overlapping dacite lava domes in a butte, a parasitic satellite cone of Mount Shasta. It is located directly adjacent to Interstate 5 at milepost 742 between the city of Mount Shasta and Weed, California. The highway crosses a 3,912 ft (1,192 m) pass, Black Butte Summit, at the western base of the lava domes. The lava domes were extruded at the foot of the cone of Shastina following the period of its major eruptions about 9,000–10,000 years ago. source: Wikipedia
After one winter's huge snowstorm	One snowy day, looking very mystical
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