About This Station
This station is powered by a Vaisala weather station WXT530 Series Unit. The data is collected every few minutes, by a small weather station dedicated "shelf" pc. This website is updated every 5 minutes. This site and its data is collected using Weather Display Software. The station is comprised of an *pitot style" anemometer, a rain gauge and a thermo-hydro sensor situated on the corner of the lodge.
About Mount Shasta Ski Park!
The park originally opened higher on the volcano of Mount Shasta, but after a few avalanches and fires that took out the lifts, and the lodge they moved lower. Todays location opened in 1985, and has changed hands of few times. Mount Shasta is the second largest mountain in the Cascade range at 14,162’, and the second southern most volcano of the range.
The parks base has an elevation of 5,500 feet and a summit elevation of 6,890. The park is able to make snow on 65 % of the trails. The park has a total of 425 acres of skiable terrain, with 32 conventional trails. However, this park also offers backcountry terrain, 360 acres of it, and a reservable backcountry cabin. Mostly intermediate trails, but plenty of beginner and advanced trails as well. There are 5 lifts, two are moving carpets, and 3 are triple chairs. Mt Shasta Ski Park also has two terrain parks, a tubing hill, and the longest bar in northern California.
About This Website
This site is a template design by CarterLake.org with PHP conversion by Saratoga-Weather.org.
Special thanks go to Kevin Reed at TNET Weather for his work on the original Carterlake templates, and his design for the common website PHP management.
Special thanks to Mike Challis of Long Beach WA for his wind-rose generator, Theme Switcher and CSS styling help with these templates.
Special thanks go to Ken True of Saratoga-Weather.org for the AJAX conditions display, dashboard and integration of the TNET Weather common PHP site design for this site.
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