View from Shasta City Shasta from Bunny Flat Horse Camp Cabin Skiing Up to Avalanche Gulch Camp at Helen Lake Dawn in Upper Avalanche Gulch Shasta Sunrise Shadow Climbing Upper Casaval Ridge Climbing a Red Banks Chimney Above Red Banks Thumb Rock and Lassen Peak Looking Up Misery Hill Shasta Summit Pinnacle On Mount Shasta Summit Alex on the West Summit Shastina Crater View Skiing the Summit Pinnacle Skiing the Summit Pinnacle 2 Skiing Misery Hill Self-Belay through Red Banks Skiing through Red Banks Safely below Red Banks Skiing below Red Banks Cliffs Skiing the Bowl Left of Heart View Down to Lake Helen Avalanche Gulch Farewell Map of Shasta Ski Route View of Shasta from the North

Since Alex had managed to ski the summit pinnacle in tele gear, I figured it would be much easier on my randonnee skis. The snow conditions were atrocious, foot-high ridges of wind-sculpted sastrugi which made turning and stopping treacherous. But I managed to ski from a point just 50 ft north of the summit register, behind the left edge of the summit rocks. That's me traversing tentatively just above the long line of climbers.
(Photo by Alex Cronin)