Mt. Shasta

This has to be the least amount of snow (depth wise) that I have ever seen on Mt. Shasta for this time of year. To give you a comparison in 1973 I snowshoed up to Horse Camp and the snow was higher than the roof and I had to find a shovel to dig down to the front door. Since then staying there is only for the most extreme emergencies but then it was a little different the way people used the Horse Camp Lodge owned and maintained by the Sierra club compared to now.

Though it was possible to ski (to the top of the mountain) and some people did yesterday including some with a Heli-skiing helicopter I noticed as well I guess I'm a little concerned for people Redding and south water wise.

At Horse Camp yesterday (at tree line) there were already places where there was no snow at all even though most places it was 2 to 5 feet deep.

The mountain has so much water stored in Lava within the mountain that even if all the snow melts off the mountain the water might flow out for 2 or 3 years, so people who live near and around the mountain likely will have water for at least 2 or 3 years whether or not it rained again during that time. Likely the same might be true of other volcanoes like Mt. Lassen, Mt. McLoughlin, Mt. Hood and on up the ring of fire as volcanoes go.

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Mount Shasta (Karuk: Úytaahkoo or "White Mountain") is a volcano located at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At 14,179 ...

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Mount McLoughlin is a steep-sided lava cone built on top of a shield volcano in the Cascade Range of southern Oregon and within the Sky Lakes Wilderness ...

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Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, ...

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It is possible many volcanoes up the ring of fire starting with Mt. Lassen  to Mt. Baker in Washington have this very porous structure from the volcanic eruptions over thousands of years that water can percolate through and stay until it comes out 2 or 3 years later  in streams and underground rivers and water tables.