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  Shasta County, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shasta County is the home of Lassen Peak, Shasta Lake, and the Lassen Volcanic National Park.
Shasta County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
This county was named after Mount Shasta; the name "Shasta" is derived from the English equivalent for the name of an Indian tribe that once lived in the area.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shasta_County,_California   (538 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Shasta Cascade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Shasta Cascade region of California is located in the northeastern and north-central sections of the state bordering Oregon and Nevada, north of the Central Valley and the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
The area is centered on Mount Shasta in the California Cascade Range, near the Trinity Alps.
Shasta Lake is the largest lake in California with a capacity of 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shasta-Cascade   (3710 words)

  
 Mount Shasta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mount Shasta, (formerly known as Mt. Sisson until 1922) a 14,179-foot (4,322 m) stratovolcano, is the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range and the highest peak in California outside of the Sierra Nevada [1].
Shasta is mentioned in "Lost Legacy", a fictional short story by Robert Heinlein as the home of a group of men who are masters of psychic powers and who decide to teach the world their powers by enlisting Boy Scouts.
Shasta Cam provides a live view of Mt. Shasta updated every 20 minutes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Shasta   (631 words)

  
 Shasta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shasta refers to a Native American tribe and various locations in northern California.
Shasta Groene, a young girl abducted from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
Shasta is the main character in the 1954 C.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shasta   (161 words)

  
 Shasta, California
Shasta, 40 miles (65 km) south of the California-Oregon border is the second highest (14,161 feet, 4,317 m)mountain in the Cascade Range.
The Hotlum cone is the youngest eruptive center and forms Shasta's summit and the north and northeast flanks.
The hummocks in the foreground are debris avalanche deposits from Shasta that are between 300,000 and 380,000 years old.
volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/volc_images/north_america/california/shasta.html   (564 words)

  
 Mount Shasta -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The worst case scenario for an eruption is a large pyroclastic flow, such as what occurred at (An active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington; erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity) Mount St. Helens.
There are in fact disk or lens-shaped (A visible mass of water or ice particles suspended at a considerable altitude) clouds that form sometimes over the mountain—a fairly typical meteorological phenomenon over high places on the earth.
Shasta is also the site of a (One who follows the teachings of Buddha) Buddhist monastery, Shasta Abbey, founded by (Click link for more info and facts about Houn Jiyu-Kennett) Houn Jiyu-Kennett in 1971.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/mount_shasta.htm   (865 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Shasta, Mount, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Shasta, Mount[shas´tu] Pronunciation Key, volcanic peak, 14,162 ft (4,317 m) high, N Calif., in the Cascade Range.
The resort town of Mt. Shasta is at the southwest foot of the mountain.
The peak has had spiritual significance for the Klamath and Modoc tribes, and in 1987 an assemblage of New Age enthusiasts gathered there to honor a planetary alignment, with many choosing to remain in the area.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Shasta-M.html   (207 words)

  
 CVO Website - Mount Shasta and Vicinity, California
Mount Shasta is a massive compound stratovolcano composed of overlapping cones centered at four or more main vents; it was constructed during a period of more than 100,000 years.
Shasta Valley to the north is largely floored by the debris of the sector collapse, likely representing a considerable fraction of the volume of the ancestral cone.
Boulders of volcanic rock from Mount Shasta are scattered along the west side of Shasta Valley and in the part of Shasta Valley that lies north of Montague, at heights of as much as 100 meters above the adjacent surface of the debris-avalanche deposits.
vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Volcanoes/Shasta/description_shasta.html   (3536 words)

  
 Baseball Index
Shasta stranded 11 runners in the game, seven over the final four innings -- including leaving the bags juiced in the seventh inning.
Shasta 7-7, Feather River 1-9 -- Allen Smith drove in three runs and Sam Bruno was 3-for-4 with two RBI as the Knights (8-3 Golden Valley Conference, 10-10) rolled by the conference-leading Golden Eagles (9-3 GVC, 11-13).
Shasta became the seventh opponent of what has become an eight-game, 15-day tour for the Eagles -- University of California at Davis is the last stop -- when an opening developed and Knights coach Brad Rupert was contacted on Tuesday to see if his team could squeeze in a game.
web1.shastacollege.edu /athletics/base   (4339 words)

  
 I saved my dog's life with alternative veterinary medicine
When Shasta joined our family at age 2, she was in extremely poor health: severely emaciated and weak with chronic diarrhea; massive wax discharge from her ears which were continually irritated and inflamed and she also had an a ongoing eye and nasal discharge; skin disorder with carbuncles and hotspots.
As I mentioned earlier, when Shasta came to our home at age two, she had a chronic extremely malodorous diarrhea brought on by the toxins from the commercial food she had been raised on and which she was unable to digest.
Unlike Shasta who ate her veggies with gusto, Kuuma is a very finicky eater and I've been having a very hard time getting him to eat my concoction of raw vegetables mixed with kelp seaweed, grounded flaxseeds, flaxoil, eggs, and fulvic minerals.
www.shirleys-wellness-cafe.com /shasta.htm   (8103 words)

  
 Mt. Shasta Botanicals - Herbal Tonics, Blends, Singular Extracts
At Mt. Shasta Botanicals we produce the purest, most potent Herbal Tonic combinations available, blending the finest of both Western and Eastern Healing Traditions.
Many years of private practice and retail experience here in the Mt. Shasta area have enabled me to develop formulas which very effectively target the many profound physical and emotional conditions of today.
Shasta Botanicals supplies nature's health insurance with the finest herbal tonics, extracts and tinctures.
www.mtshastabotanicals.com   (156 words)

  
 Mount Shasta City, Mt. Shasta California
Mount Shasta City is situated at the base of the southwestern slope of Mt. Shasta, a 14,162 foot volcano, and second highest peak in the Cascade Range and second highest volcano in the lower 48 United States.
Mount Shasta City elevation is 3,563 feet and the population within the city limits is approximately 5,700.
Shasta is the second most southerly mountain in the Cascade Range and acts like a divide between northeastern and northwestern California.
www.shastahome.com /visitors.htm   (1790 words)

  
 Lakeshore Inn and RV, RV Park, Camping and Dining on Shasta Lake, Lakehead, California
Shasta Lake in Northern California offers matchless days of enjoying outdoor activities including boating, the best water skiing and wake boarding surface in the Western United States, renown fishing, houseboating, picnicking, and hiking and biking along the lake and through the expansive forest.
Shasta Lake is the largest man made reservoir in California with 370 miles of rugged, picturesque shoreline that encompasses caverns, forests, rock cliffs, waterfalls, and numerous islands.
Shasta Lake is fed by three major rivers, the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud as well as the abundant streams.
www.shastacamping.com   (206 words)

  
 Shasta Dam - ShastaLake.com
Shasta Dam is 602 feet tall, 3,460 feet long and 883 feet thick at the base.
Shasta Dam is as high as the combined height of the Great Pyramid of Cheops and Niagara Falls.
Shasta is the second largest and tallest concrete dam in the United States.
www.shastalake.com /shastadam   (2965 words)

  
 Shasta - California Ghost Town
Actually a shipping center rather than a mining town until 1872 when the California and Oregon Railroad laid track to the six mile distant city of Redding, Shasta was the entrance to the rich mines in the back country as well as a stage stop between the Valleys of the Sacramento.
Not to be confused with the city of Mount Shasta, located at the base of the mountain of the same name, Shasta is an interesting stop along the way.
Shasta's gold discovery came in the spring of 1849, sparking California's second god rush.
www.ghosttowns.com /states/ca/shasta.html   (539 words)

  
 Shasta Software Distributed Shared Memory System   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Shasta is a software distributed shared memory system that transparently supports a shared address space across a cluster of workstations or servers.
Shasta currently supports a memory model in which dynamically allocated data is shared across nodes, while stack and static data is not shared.
Shasta implements the shared address space by transparently rewriting the application executable to intercept loads and stores (as done previously by the Blizzard-S system).
www.research.compaq.com /wrl/projects/Shasta   (613 words)

  
 About Shasta Abbey Buddhist Monastery Mt. Shasta Northern California
Shasta Abbey is a Buddhist monastery in the Serene Reflection Meditation (Soto Zen) tradition and is a temple in the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives.
Buddhist training at Shasta Abbey is based on the practice of Serene Reflection Meditation and the keeping of the Buddhist Precepts.
Shasta Abbey practices the ancient Buddhist tradition of Dana (generosity of spirit, selfless giving).
www.shastaabbey.org   (270 words)

  
 Shasta Valley, Shasta River - Montague, California
Shasta Valley, a 340-square-mile basin drained by Shasta River, is located in Siskiyou County.
A flat, arid plain north of Mount Shasta, the valley is punctuated by hundreds of hills, ridges, and small closed depressions (not connected by surface streams).
Melting snow from Mount Shasta does not contribute significantly to surface flows in the upper Shasta River because run-off sinks into the porous volcanic slopes and reappears from springs on the Shasta Valley.
www.shastahome.org /shastavalley.htm   (1061 words)

  
 ShastaCOE.org
Shasta County educators serve nearly 30,000 students in grades K-12, and we are proud of the quality and scope of the educational programs and services available in this beautiful part of Northern California.
The Shasta County Board of Education is seeking a candidate to fill a vacancy in Area 1.
Any registered voter who resides in the Enterprise, Grant, Redding, or Shasta Union Elementary School District and is not employed by the Shasta County Office of Education or a school district is eligible to apply to this seven member board.
www.shastacoe.org   (487 words)

  
 '50s Shasta ad painted over in S.F. / 'Find the Miracle Artist' contest was to feature building's image   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The brouhaha is over a classic 1950s-era advertisement for Shasta Cola, which for decades has pitched its soft drink with the catchy "It hasta be Shasta" campaign.
Dubbed "Miracle Art" by Shasta, the old Shasta ad is a centerpiece of the company's Web site and was to be part of a major new ad campaign -- a "Find the Miracle Artist" contest that would offer $10,000 and a "generous supply" of Shasta drinks to the person who could identify its artist.
Meieran said he was perplexed because Shasta didn't respond to letters his company sent asking whether the soft-drink company was interested in keeping the ad.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/04/02/MN216340.DTL   (723 words)

  
 Shasta - A DirectConnect Hub   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I started Shasta because a lot of people complained that the existing open source hub software was prone to crashing.
Since then, Shasta has gained a lot of features, making it an excellent hub for ops who want maximum control of their hub.
Much of the core of Shasta is written using the plugin system.
www.lwave.ca /shasta   (1045 words)

  
 Mount Shasta City-city departments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The City of Mt. Shasta and its information suppliers make no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to services, information or data made available by the City of Mt. Shasta, including but not limited to the warranties for a particular purpose or merchantability or non-infringement.
The City of Mt. Shasta and its information suppliers make no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to the truth, accuracy or completeness of any statements, information, materials, services or data made available by the City of Mt. Shasta in this Internet site.
In no event shall the City of Mt. Shasta or its information suppliers be liable for any delays or failures in performance or for any interruption of this Internet site.
ci.mt-shasta.ca.us /citydepartments.html   (234 words)

  
 Shasta County, California Guide: ShastaCounty.com
Shasta County is the economic, cultural, and geographical center of the northern section of the State of California.
The City of Redding is the county seat for Shasta County.
Shasta County has the unique distinction of having three different mountain ranges flow into the county.
www.shastacounty.com   (811 words)

  
 Shasta Lake Cam on Lake Shasta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Cruise beautiful Shasta Lake aboard your own floating lodge, enjoying and exploring the 374 miles of picturesque shoreline.
Shasta Marina Houseboats are available for rental year round.
We are conveniently located in the heart of Northern California on Shasta Lake, just 20 minutes north of Redding, California and one mile west of Interstate 5.
www.shastalake.tv   (100 words)

  
 Mt Shasta Photo Gallery, Mount Shasta Photographers
Snowcapped Mt. Shasta, located in the upper regions of northern California in Siskiyou County, is a massive, white giant standing 14,162 feet (4,317 m) above sea level.
It is a stratum volcano, a dominant feature of northern California, and is situated in the largest zone of volcanoes in the world called the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Shasta is in a section of this ring called the Cascade Range, which begins where the Sierra Nevadas end and extends about 700 miles from northern California through Oregon and Washington into southern British Columbia.
www.mtshastaphotos.org   (232 words)

  
 Climbing Mt Shasta, Mount Shasta Climbers Guide
Standing at 14,162 feet, on the summit of Mt. Shasta can be one of the most rewarding experience of your life.
Shasta" is the only written resource you'll need to help you prepare for a 14,162 ft. ascent on the second highest volcano in the United States!
Climbing Mt. Shasta was written and designed specifically for those of you who are motivated to climb Mt. Shasta for the first time.
www.climbingmtshasta.org   (370 words)

  
 Shasta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Some Shasta villages in Oregon were south of present-day Ashland and Jacksonville on the northern borders of the Siskiyou Mountains and perhaps between Ashland and Table Rock in the Rogue River drainage area.
The Oregon Shastas and two other Oregon tribes, the Takelmas and Latgawas (Rogues), had a common bond in opposing encroaching miners and settlers in the Rogue River country.
The Oregon Shastas were included in the treaties that the United States effected with the Indians of the Rogue River valley in the mid-1850s, and they were eventually removed with those Indians to the Grand Ronde and Siletz reservations of Oregon.
logos.uoregon.edu /explore/oregon/shasta.html   (323 words)

  
 Siskiyou County Visitors' Bureau for Mt. Shasta country in Northern California USA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Welcome to summer in Siskiyou County in northern California, USA - the home of majestic Mount Shasta, the Klamath Wildlife Refuges, the Marble Mountains Wilderness, and a rich expanse of mountains, forests and valleys.
Visit and refresh your spirits in Mount Shasta country.
Mount Shasta viewed from the east, Military pass Road.
www.visitsiskiyou.org   (459 words)

  
 Shasta Software
Welcome to Shasta Software, your source for world-class software, and consulting services.
Shasta Software can assist you through any phase of the software development process, including:
In addition to our consulting and programming services, Shasta Software also markets several software products aimed at both consumers, and software developers.
www.shastasoftware.com   (123 words)

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