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

By following the aforementioned streambed from the bottom of the Gulch, we managed to ski continuously down to 7100 ft, with a couple of muddy patches on the way. We ended up right beside the original trail, only five minutes walk from the parking lot. This map shows our climbing and skiing route, with color coding corresponding to our mode of travel (scale shown in miles). Red sections were hiked on foot, while blue portions were skied. The purple section above Red Banks was climbed on foot with crampons, but descended on skis.

(Map scanned from Mount Shasta topographic map, ©1989 Wilderness Press.)