Shasta Bally

Leanna said I could put the photos from their trek up Shasta Bally on my blog. This is probably the closest I will ever come to hiking this trail!  I had the privilege of watching Trent while they were hiking up the mountain. The descriptions of the photos are in Leanna's words.

Road entrance. The sign says four wheel drive vehicles only, but the road is locked off. A truck with Federal plates did drive up and down while we were hiking. It had to go really fast to keep momentum up the 6 mile long climb.

on the way up, not too far into the trail

Liked how this tree made a bridge. Maybe a mile or mile and a half up the trail.

Our first big rest, about 1/2 way up

First glimpse of the lake

Oh little town of Redding... I can see all 90,000 people from up here!

Sundial Bridge. Zoomed 12 times optically, then that times 4 digitally, for a 48x zoom...

Resting point about 2/3 up (4 miles-ish)

pretty. Never see these in Redding

Within site! We're still probably a mile and a half away at this point.

Getting very close! Not too many trees anymore.

summit

views from the summit

Sheer cliffs. I wasn't going.

My favorite rock.

Some reservoir. Appeared to be way past Anderson somewhere.

We hiked to snow!

On the summit

Mystery mountain Dan wants to climb next.  

Look closely, Redding folk. Here's all our water! You can see Whiskeytown Lake, Shasta Lake and the Sacramento River in this shot!!! It was a bit hazy, so the river is hard to make out.

Starfish Island? I named it.

(Whiskeytown Lake)

(Redding)