This is likely the best YEAR AROUND location to start climbing Mt. Shasta. Why? Because in snow season the Everitt Memorial Highway is usually open. And most other locations you might want to climb from you likely will need either a 4 wheel drive or a car or truck with high ground clearance so you don't take out your oil pan on a rock on a dirt road or something. Another location (if the road is open) (which it isn't usually at least 6 months a year because of snow) is up near Panther Meadows. This is a more popular route. However, on this route. However, this is the Old Ski Bowl route which is going to take you up ridges to the top. My ex-wife did this by herself in 1979 with her dog by the way and summited Mt. Shasta back then before I met her later that year.
So, Bunny Flat is an amazing place for all sorts of reasons to me because this was where my first physical UFO experience happened up close and personal. The next one in 1992 was watching likely that same saucer accompanies this time by Black Ops (U.S.?) personnel in 3 Chinook Helicopters disappeared like likely traveled through time then in the Summer of 1992.
However, Bunny Flat is the easiest way year around to ascend to the top of Mt. Shasta usually.
However, if you are in the summer time and the snow is melted, the route up Avalanche Gulch to Red Banks is also dangerous if people are ahead of you on that slope because as it gets steeper if one or more of the small or bigger rocks get loose and that happens to hit you in the head at 70 mph or so it easily could be fatal. So, if you Climb Avalanche Gulch up past Horse Camp and if the snow is all melted above you watch out for falling rocks at high speed usually caused by the hiking boots or crampons of other climbers who are ascending the mountain. This can be a problem at all altitudes but especially from around 9000 feet to 12,000 feet. IF you look up at the mountain from the little City of Mt. Shasta right now, all the places above tree line if they don't have snow to avalanche have rocks that could also fly down the steeper grades and get you too. So, be very careful of this route even though in other ways it likely is the easiest route to take up Mt. Shasta.
Bunny Flat on Mt. Shasta at around 6900 feet on Everitt Memorial Highway
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