Boating Mt Shasta
Mt Shasta – From golf to skiing to spirituality
A visit to the Mt Shasta area in California to convince you that it's really a holiday destination that will appeal to almost anyone, from golfers to skiers, and yes, for those seeking a more spiritual.
Mt Shasta is home well … Mt Shasta, a volcano 14,179 feet, the second highest peak in the Cascade Range. Yeah, that's great. And beautiful. And some say, the house a vortex that draws "New Age" types. A drive down Mt. Shasta Blvd. in Mt Shasta City reveals a wide variety of shops and traditional healers various spiritual. You can buy singing bowls and tuning forks, tools of divination, yoga supplies, sprays vibration and jewelry magic. You can find all types of spiritual healers, such as those offering psychic hypnotherapy, reflexology, reiki and energy work, healing vibration and massage. If you're in the mineral baths, you can just north of Mt Shasta City to weeds, where you find mineral baths Stewart Mineral Springs Therapeutic (530-938-2222).
Those of you who wish to make excursions vortices are definitely lucky because are many tours to choose from, including Shasta Vortex Adventures, which offers Mt Shasta Guided tours all year. You can choose from hiking guided healing of the Earth travel, bus tours and winter outings such as snowshoeing, cross country or telemark ski trips. Call at 530-926-4326 between them for more information.
For those seeking outdoor activities and adventures, Mt Shasta does not disappoint, what of the season where you are. During the warmer months, you can hike or visit the many lakes that dot the region, including, of course, Lake Shasta, 10 miles north of Redding, the second largest lake in California, after Lake Tahoe. Shasta Lake is a popular destination for boating, water skiing, camping, and fishing. They also call on the houseboat and wakeboarding Capital of the World. Shasta Lake is also home to Lake Shasta Caverns, which is open all year. To see the underground caves, visitors are taken on a catamaran cruise of 15 minutes on Lake Shasta, where they board a bus, then transporting them to a mountainside more than 800 feet above the lake, where the caves are accessible. All this for only $ 20, $ 12 for those of 3-15. 1-800-795-CAVE for more information call.
If the size of Lake Shasta is too overwhelming for you, as it was for me at a visit, you can visit a small lake near Mt. Shasta City, Lake Siskiyou, a 430 acre recreational lake and sailing, which offers some of the best bass and trout fishing in Northern California. You can buy cheap and spend a day swimming, picnic or rent pedal boats, or you can rent a car recreational or campsite or a cabin at Lake Siskiyou Resort and Camp (1-888-926-2618). The station is open from April 1st – October 31st and is very friendly and family with a swimming area, sandy beach, and movies at night in a outdoor amphitheater. The lake is actually closer to Mt Shasta Shasta Lake that, and you can swim with the beautiful snow covered mountains looming in the background.
Near Lake Siskiyou you find the Mount Shasta Resort, home to a golf championship as well as luxury cabins and a day spa.
Skiers will delight in skiing Mt. Shasta to Mt Shasta Ski Park, where you will find 31 trails on 425 acres of land runs. Night skiing is also scheduled for 14 runs and 3 lifts. The level of difficulty of the terrain is 20% beginner, 55% intermediate and 25% advanced. There also a cross country skiing and snowshoeing for those who want something other than downhill skiing. And for beginners, the park offers cross-country skiing, snowboarding and telemark.
If you are looking for a place to be pampered, a place to enjoy the outdoors, or a place to explore the metaphysical, Mt Shasta really have it all.
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Shari Hearn is a writer and creator of Top Vacation Spots, where you can learn about such things as holidays to Mexico.