Lassen Volcanic National Park . One hundred years ago, a mere geologic eye blink, tectonic plates did a little twerking, and Lassen Peak roiled and rumbled, bubbled and blew. Boulders the size of ...

The snowiest mountain in California — and the second snowiest place in the continental United States — is Lassen Peak in Shasta County, with an average of about 45 feet of snowfall yearly.

Lassen Volcanic National Park attracts a fraction of the visitors that Yosemite does each year. But what this gem in far Northern California lacks in crowds, it more than makes up for in vistas ...

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Northern California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park is an undiscovered hiker’s dream, and it’s the 31st stop on our 62 Parks Traveler’s quest to visit every park in the U.S.

The May 19 flow moved blocks of Lassen Peak that weigh over 100 tonnes and some were stayed hot for weeks (see above) after the eruption. The Eruption - Main Event The ash cloud from the May 22 ...

“People had believed that Lassen Peak, a 10,457-foot high mountain, was an extinct volcano…. Then on May 19, 1915, a great eruption with lava caused a massive mudflow down the northeastern ...

Trying to identify why Lassen Peak and vicinity is sinking is a little tricky. As I just alluded, the most likely culprit is cooling and crystallizing of magma after the 1914-17 eruptions of ...

From the caldera rim of Lassen Peak, you can see past volcanic formations to distant Mount Shasta to the north -- about 100 miles away. Tom Stienstra/The Chronicle.

Lassen Peak, east of Redding, California, is a 10,457-foot active volcano that last erupted in 1915. Though the eruption was tiny in volume compared to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, it ...

Lassen Peak’s elevation and geographic orientation lead to the ... when a prolific snowfall season at the Mount Baker Ski Area in northern Washington State produced an eye-popping 1,140 inches ...