10,443' Elevation :-)

Lake Helen on Mount Shasta was named by local Mount Shasta artist and mountaineerEdward Stuhl in honor of a climb of Shasta accomplished together with the beautiful and athletic Helen Wheeler, who was his friend and the former owner of a large tract of McCloud property.

That's me standing just before dropping into Lake Helen you can see some campers to the left. I made it. It was really the warmest day yet and the snow was so soft. What a work out:-)

There was a group of us with Linda in the lead, then she stayed back with me the slowest one. I got to do a little bit of glissading down from Helen, it was pretty fun. It would of been nice to be able to do that all the way down, but the snow was too soft.