First thing I noticed was from the Mt. Shasta City side at least there is not ONE speck of snow visible on the mountain (At all from this side of the mountain). However, I'm told by someone who lives there that other glaciers are still there to some degree like the Hotlum glacier and the Whitney Glacier and others still exist because in those places they get sheltered from the sun enough during the day to not melt away completely at least yet.
When you leave the San Francisco Bay area pretty much there is some smoke in the air and you will not get (at least today) one view of the High Sierra Mountains while you are traveling up 505 or 5 towards Mt. Shasta. Then today from Williams to Red Bluff the smoke was so thick you couldn't see more than 1/2 mile even on Interstate 5. Finally between Red Bluff and Redding I finally could see the mountain range to the west near Clear Lake for a little while. Then as I pulled into Redding proper I began to see vaguely in the distance mountains in the vicinity of mt. Shasta too. But, I didn't really see mt. Shasta until Lakehead or past that. Also, Shasta dam has the lowest Water level I have ever seen since the 1950s when I first started as a child driving across a bridge or bridges over the lake even before Interstate 5 went in. In the 1950s it took 4 to 6 hours then to drive from Redding to the little city of Mt. Shasta. Now it takes about 45 minutes to an hour to make this drive depending upon how you drive and what you are pulling behind you.
The temperatures were up to 91 degrees still most of the way north after about Williams and 80s before that so it was still a very warm day today but that is supposed to change by Wednesday down about 30 degrees or so all over the state for the highs.
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