Shasta in Winter. John Muir, the Geologist and Explorer, Ascends It. A Hard and Perilous Undertaking - Among the Glaciers, Lava-beds, and Storm-clouds. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Sisson's Station, November 24, 1874.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

036

Original Date

12-2-1874

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""Snow is falling on icy Shasta. Its rugged glaciers, steep lava-slope, and broad, swelling base are all gloriously snow-covered, and day and night snow is still falling-snow on snow."" Muir describes his leisurely walk up the valley to Sisson's Station, his preparation for an ascent of Mt. Shasta, and his strenuous climb through deep snow to the summit. After a couple of hours at the summit with violent winds hoisting snow-banners, he is compelled to retreat to his base camp, where he hurriedly assembles a ""storm-nest"" as the ""storm closed down on all things, producing a wild exhilaration."" On the third day, his snowy solitude is abruptly interrupted by the arrival of a packer sent from Sisson's to rescue him, in spite of his explicit instructions to be left alone whatever the weather.

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin

Page/Column

p.1, col. 3

Reprint/Offprint

Reprint in De. 3, 1874 edition.

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 152; no. 175, v. I, pp. 156-160; no. 341, v. 8, pp. 57-67; no. 350, pp. 56-67; no. 505

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "Shasta in Winter. John Muir, the Geologist and Explorer, Ascends It. A Hard and Perilous Undertaking - Among the Glaciers, Lava-beds, and Storm-clouds. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Sisson's Station, November 24, 1874." (1874). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 23.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/23