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Mt Shasta
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There's no other pile of rock in California that stirs the imagination quite like Mt
Shasta (
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), as it suddenly rises from the surrounding flatlands. Native
Californians believed that it was home of a sky-spirit chief, John Muir said its
beauty made his 'blood turn to wine,' and a late-19th-century explorer reported
that survivors of a lost continent were living in tunnels below its surface. Whether
it's the 'energy vortex' felt by today's New Age pilgrims or the spine-tingling chills
of hikers summiting its wind-blown peak, this mountain is magical.
