Beautiful sunny day most of the way with the Greenest hills I have ever seen in California since around 1997 from all the flooding and rain. Some places you have to be careful coming north on 101 and watch for mud slides into the slow lanes though or places where skip loaders have had to remove the mud that are still a little dirty so you have to worry a little about rocks or mud some places.
The weather was 70 to 75 degrees going up from Vacaville up 505 to 5 and up north towards Redding. Our Hair stylist had moved there so my wife stopped to have her hair done in Redding on the way to Mt. Shasta. By about Willows or Williams the cloud cover started and it was no longer sunny and I didn't need full sunglasses to protect my eyes anymore heading north.
The Sacramento River and Shasta Dam were as high as I have ever seen then since the 90s at this point and my friend tells me there is still 12 to 15 feet of snow up at Bunny Flats which is as high as you are allowed to drive right now that is plowed on a paved road on Mt. Shasta. People cross country ski up the road further or up the mountain or they bring snowmobiles for below the road and some drive up the snow covered road from there as far as Panther Meadows or even further.
But, 12 to 15 feet at Bunny Flats is a lot of snow for the last few years when we were lucky to get 4 to 5 feet this time of year ordinarily (and that was only if we were lucky in the drought.
The clouds went off the mountain so we could see it all snow covered and beautiful now! Wonderful!
NOTE: I have Personally skied with mountaineering cross country skis on up to 40 feet of snow where only the tips of the tallest trees are visible above the snow in peak snow years in the 1980s and 1990s near Bunny Flats.
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