Talk:Mount Shasta

message: Article states that if Shastina were to be considered a separate peak, then it would be the third highest in the Cascade Range (Rainier, Shasta, Shastina). However, if Shastina is considered a separate peak at 12,330 feet elevation and 450 feet of prominence, then Liberty Cap on Rainier (14,112 feet, 492 feet of prominence) must also be considered a separate peak. Therefore, Shastina would have to be fourth.
Nsjackson (talk) 03:22, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, and thank for noticing that.  If you can provide the references, why not edit the article accordingly? Cullen328 (talk) 05:03, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shastina 

message: The article states that a bergshrund is a hazard on the Avalanche Gulch climbing route.  Bergshrunds occur only as features of glaciers, and Avalance Gulch has no glacier.  There are several glaciers on other areas of the mountain, but only snowfields in Avalanche Gulch. I propose to remove this statement.  Comments?  Jim Heaphy (talk) 08:05, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done some additional research and discovered that my concern last September was misplaced.  Although Avalanche Gulch itself has no glacier and therefore no bergshrund, the route comes close to the top of the Konwakiton Glacier after leaving the gulch at the Red Banks, so there is a bergshrund danger under certain conditions when crossing a snow bridge. - Jim Heaphy Cullen328 (talk) 05:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bergshrund? 

message: So is it inactive or active? Just a simple Yes or no answer would be appriciated, no long descriptive answers  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.213.89.2 (talk) 18:36, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status 

message: Well, 14,179 is certainly not well-known.  Have you corrected the height number in every reference to Shasta thoughout Wikipedia?  Are there other similar errors for U.S. mountains?
NorCalHistory 06:15, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  elevation 

message: This article says that Mt. Shasta is the most voluminous volcano in the Cascade Range at 450 cubic kM, yet the article on the nearby Medicine Lake volcano states that it is also most voluminous volcano in the Cascade Range at 600 kM.  I don't know which is correct, but it should be resolved.
:According to (Wood 1990) Shasta is the largest startovolcano at ~350 cubic km while Medicine Lake is the largest volcano at ~600 cubic km.  I'll look into making updates. --Burntnickel 23:55, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I don't need to make any updates as the articles are both already correct. --Burntnickel 00:04, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volume 

message: I think someone was confused when they said Mt. Shasta was once called Mt. Sisson.  The town was once named Sisson, and renamed to Mount Shasta, but the mountain has been known by some variant of its current name since the mid-19th century (see http://www.shastahome.com/visitors.htm and http://www.siskiyous.edu/shasta/bib/B14.htm) Gwimpey 02:15, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mount Sisson? 

message: Needs to wait for a ==History== section to be placed in this article.
    
Perhaps an image of Shasta as viewed from the north end of the Valley (Red Bluff, Willows, in there) would be demonstrative of its visibility.  I don't think I have one, myself ...
Kmmontandon (talk) 00:21, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you be more specific? I can't see any issues. Brycehughes (talk) 00:23, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Dear Anonymous Editor (IP 209.232.215.253):
Please do not make anonymous edits, and then refuse to discuss your point of view.  Please see Wikipedia:Resolving_disputes.
NorCalHistory 21:27, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anonymous Editing 

message: The previous rank was based on peakware.com, which is a very unreliable source. Look at fourteeners for the relevant other peaks (look for "California"). -- Spireguy 04:28, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected rank in California 

message: I have come across something that might be helpful to the cultural references section, so I added that.
:Forgot to sign. --RainStarDragon 00:17, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added to Cultural References 

message: Two questions: (1) would the climate chart be more appropriate at Mount Shasta, California? The weather station in question is not on top of the mountain, after all. (2) Is the chart a copyvio? I don't think so, since most of the content is purely factual (the numbers) and the format has been changed a bit---it's not the exact same HTML. But I didn't want to move it myself before I heard other opinions. -- Spireguy 14:14, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate chart 

message: NOTE: Three lengthy sections of this talk page have been moved to /Archive 1, in order to refocus this page on discussion about improving the article.  Any further reference deletions or disruptive edits by that anon editor should be reported to WP:AIV, along with a link to the detailed list of the anon IP's edits at /Abuse.  Thanks.  --Seattle Skier (talk) 04:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have problems with a particular edit to the article, feel free to discuss the substance of your concerns, but please do not misrepresent others' actions. I believe the "controversy" was primarily about misleading edit summaries (whether intentional or not) in a series of anonymous edits aiming to remove certain references from the article. -- Avenue 01:57, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Please do not make unsupported, irrelevant personal attacks. -- Spireguy 19:08, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated removal of references by anon IP editor

message: "Many people clain to have encountered Lemuians on (Mt.) Shasta" needs a citation.  By the way, what kinds of plants grow there? Pustelnik (talk) 02:20, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lemurians

message: Why is only the Karuk name, which doesn't look/sound like "Shasta", featured in the intro only?  There are other indigenous names, I'd think (Modoc, for instance).  This paragraph:
:The historic eruption of Mount Shasta in 1786 may have been observed by la Perouse, but this is disputed. Although perhaps first seen by Spanish explorers, the first reliably-reported land sighting of Mount Shasta by a European or American was by Peter Skene Ogden (a leader of a Hudson's Bay Company trapping brigade) in 1826. In 1827, the name "Sasty" or "Sastise" was given to nearby Mount McLoughlin by Ogden. (The name was transferred to present-day Mount Shasta in 1841, partly as a result of work by the United States Exploring Expedition).
...gives a notion as to the origin, but why did PS Ogden give it this name?  Was it from an indigenous informant, and from which language?Skookum1 (talk) 15:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And how it was the Spanish, who did not cross the coastal ranges or even get to their summits, were able to "perhaps" see Mount Shasta.....its plume maybe, but most likely it would look just like a big thunderhead....especially from as far away as the coast.Skookum1 (talk) 15:05, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Indigenous name

message: Hi, I am the author of the book titled Climbing Mt. Shasta at www.climbingmtshasta.com. I would like to have my Climber's Guide at www.climbingmtshasta.org linked with your external links on the the following page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Shasta. The Climber's Guide was the first ever online website about climbing Mt. Shasta and it's been online since 1996. I do have a link to your site on my home page too. Thank you so much for your consideration.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.84.192.83 (talk) 13:02, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climbing Mt. Shasta 

message: I removed some editorialising, in particular the phrase "as noted above", per MOD:NOTED.  I also removed a few instances of "see image ...", once again because I think it is editorialising, but also image placement is somewhat dynamic - what appears just below left on one person's screen may appear to be much further away on other screens.  It also seems some images have been moved since the "see image..." text was added.  Astronaut (talk) 08:44, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  Those changes are all improvements.  Uh, is the section title meant to be *Editorializing*?  Otherwise, it's all good work.  Thanks!  —EncMstr (talk) 16:28, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  Yes, it is supposed to say 'Editorializing' - though, like many Brits, I prefer to use "s" instead of "z" (to me, "-ize" seems very much like an Americanism, even if it is the correct spelling in British English).  Astronaut (talk) 10:20, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editoriasing 

message: I have restored the article to its previous state, as there was a lot of valuable information lost when it was converted to a list, which is now at List of peaks named Shasta.Jasper Deng (talk) 22:36, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to Hike395 and Jasper Deng for fixing the article and saving the GNIS entries as a separate, appropriate named article.  I hadn't noticed the initial problem until a few minutes ago.  Sorry for the trouble.  —EncMstr (talk) 00:34, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting from a list 

message: There seems to be an incipient edit war brewing over unit abbreviations in this article (and also in Mount Whitney and Mount Whitney Trail). User:SkepticalRaptor seems to prefer unit abbreviations, while User:Droll seems to be referring to WP:MOSNUM#Conventions when expanding all of the abbreviations.
I believe there is a simple compromise that may make both editors happy and still obey WP:MOSNUM. The relevant guideline is:
:In prose it is usually better to spell out unit names, but symbols may also be used when a unit (especially one with a very long name) is used many times in an article. However, spell out the first instance of each unit in an article [...], except for unit names which are hardly ever spelled out even in publications for general audiences.
I expanded the first use of feet, miles, and cubic miles in this article, and left the rest abbreviated. Hopefully this will satisfy both editors. —hike395 (talk) 09:37, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviations 

message: I slapped a bunch of citation needed tags and a travel guide warning on the article. It really isn't at the quality of some of the better articles that have been written on Cascade Range volcanoes. Kind of sad. Some of the writing seems to have been taken right from a travel guide or pamphlet. I just can't tell, but the writing isn't very encyclopedic. It's also missing tons of citations. Hopefully, someone from one of the projects will jump in, and clean it up. SkepticalRaptor (talk) 18:23, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Travel guide and citations needed 

message: Among locals - or at least the few I have come across in Redding - it is universally 'Shasta' without the 'Mount' appendage.  In the same way as, among mountaineers, it's always 'Everest' and not 'Mount Everest.'  But, for example, I have been in Portland OR and I have never heard their local peak as anything but 'Mount Hood.'  Not sure if there is any style rule here, of if it is just usage.  Cross Reference (talk) 21:05, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Just Shasta?

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