View from Shasta City Shasta from Bunny Flat Horse Camp Cabin Skiing Up to Avalanche Gulch Camp at Helen Lake Dawn in Upper Avalanche Gulch Shasta Sunrise Shadow Climbing Upper Casaval Ridge Climbing a Red Banks Chimney Above Red Banks Thumb Rock and Lassen Peak Looking Up Misery Hill Shasta Summit Pinnacle On Mount Shasta Summit Alex on the West Summit Shastina Crater View Skiing the Summit Pinnacle Skiing the Summit Pinnacle 2 Skiing Misery Hill Self-Belay through Red Banks Skiing through Red Banks Safely below Red Banks Skiing below Red Banks Cliffs Skiing the Bowl Left of Heart View Down to Lake Helen Avalanche Gulch Farewell Map of Shasta Ski Route View of Shasta from the North

Above and right of the Heart the standard route steepens to a pitch of about 35 degrees, just before it deours around the right edge of the Red Banks. However, this uppermost part of the route now consisted of unappealling scree windswept free of snow. Most parties were instead choosing to climb a more direct route on steep snow through the Red Banks Chimneys. The well-frozen snow up to 45 degrees steep made for much more intersting climbing than the scree route.