The Mount Shasta Trail Association is taking you to another kick-butt location near Mount Shasta. This time its Root Creek Falls in Castle Crags:
It’s another Mount Shasta Trail Association guided hike!
If you like waterfalls, you’ll LOVE this moderate hike to Root Creek Falls in the Castle Crags area. It’s a 350 foot waterfall that was recently “discovered ” by a State Park ranger. As the “story” goes, he was checking out a complaint of vandalism. While looking out the complainant’s picture window, the ranger noticed these huge waterfalls, practically in the resident’s backyard. Root Creek waterfalls are best seen in spring time when the snow is melting. The water is roaring down now.
Please join us for this 5.6 mile, 700 foot elevation gain hike May 8th. We’ll meet at the Fish Hatchery parking lot 9 am. We’ll return to the Fish Hatchery by 3 pm. For further questions call Joan Roemer 926-0647.
There is no charge for participating in this hike and everyone should dress warmly in layered clothing, wear durable hiking shoes, and bring lunch and water.
I’d go if I weren’t out of town. If you can make this one, do it!
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There will be a good annular eclipse of the sun on Sunday, May 20th. The centerline of the path of the eclipse passes just 15 miles south of Castle Crags; thus, the eclipse will look just about as good as Castle Crags as on the centerline. The significance of Castle Crags lies in the fact that the altitude of the sun at mid-eclipse (around 4:30 PDT) will be about 20º. This presents an opportunity to photograph the eclipse against the background of Crags. However, this requires a site from which some part of the Crags is, say, 19º above the horizon line. There are very, very few sites anywhere in the country where such geometry can be found, and Castle Crags is one of them. I have not walked the ground, but study of topo maps as well as photos of Root Creek Falls suggest that this would be an ideal location. Indeed, the photos I have seen of Root Creek Falls against the dome seem almost perfectly aligned.
So, my question is, can you provide me with directions to follow the hike in 2010? Will I need any special permissions?