Trailhead sign view in June 2004. Steep and hard but the summit is great!

My climbing partner Scott relaxing after a 3500', 3-mile shlog in wet heavy snow. A few hours of sleep and we will be on our way at 2:30 a.m. in a succesful atempt to summit!

good look at Mount Shasta looking up Avalanche Gulch from the Bunny Flat Trailhead. Only 7000' to go! Photo taken on March 31, 2004.

The peak of Mount Shasta as seen at 8:20 a.m. on May 1, 2004. What a beautiful morning!

This picture is of one of the steeper Red Banks chutes. I made it part way up this chute before deciding that I was too sick to continue (had a nice virus/sinus infection thing going I believe)... the altitude didn't cause the sickness but it helped to enhance it. -Jeff Cooper

Tony Calderone in the high camp for the Avalanche Gulch route on Mount Shasta.

This was my 3rd attempt to climb Mount Shasta through the Casaval Ridge in the winter. This picture was taken a few years ago, with my climbing partner Mike.

This picture was taken on the casaval ridge, it was my 3rd inter attempt that went unsuccesful due to bad weather, but a great route all around.

We climbed Casaval Ridge and actually dragged our packs all the way to 13100ft and set up the camp on a huge snow field over there. Digging up the campsite and making the snow walls made for excellent acclimatization;)

My 4th summit of Mt. Shasta, and first solo. I climbed the west face route. A cross country runner from UC Davis I meet on the mountain was kind enought to take this photo and e-mail it to me.