Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new ...
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.
On June 14, 1914, three men climbed Lassen Peak to see why a seemingly dormant volcano had started rumbling 16 days before. Now, peering into a newborn crater, they felt the ground tremble.