Still White as a Winter Moon?

With its summit soaring 14,162 feet, Mount Shasta stands imposingly over the surrounding landscape, alone in its claim as the dominant peak of northern California. Unlike the highest peaks in the Sierra, Shasta has no peers on its flanks. Itโ€™s an absolute brooding, uncontested loner โ€“ a mountain โ€œas lonely as God, and white as a winter moon,โ€ as the poet Joaquin Miller memorably put it.

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