Mount Lassen Volcanic Peak
by Frank Wilson
Title
Mount Lassen Volcanic Peak
Artist
Frank Wilson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Photograph of Mount Lassen Volcano in Northern California. Elevation 10,462 ft. This photograph was taken in mid-February 2015 during a snow drought year. There should be very deep winter snows blanketing the slopes.
Lassen Peak has the highest known winter snowfall amounts in California. There is an average annual snowfall of 660 in (1,676 cm), and in some years, more than 1,000 in (2,500 cm) of snow falls at its base altitude of 8,250 ft (2,515 m) at Lake Helen. The Mount Lassen area receives more precipitation (rain, sleet, hail, snow, etc.) than anywhere in the Cascade Range south of the Three Sisters volcanoes in Oregon. The heavy annual snowfall on Lassen Peak creates fourteen permanent patches of snow on and around the mountain top, despite Lassen's rather modest elevation of 10,462 feet. When this photograph was taken there was only a snow depth of 19.6 inches in mid- February.
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February 19th, 2015
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