Fig. 1Snow on the granite of Castle Crags, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
Landform
A granite castle of pale spires above the Sacramento canyon — not a Cascade volcano and not the Sierra granite the famous parks already keep.
Field note
Castle Dome and the Crags rise from cedar and fir. Castella is the door. This plate is Castle Crags State Park and Wilderness, not Mount Shasta’s cone and not Yosemite’s valley granite.
Castle Crags is a granite castle above the Sacramento canyon — Castle Dome, pale spires, cedar and fir. Castella is the door. This plate is the state park and wilderness, not Shasta’s volcano and not Yosemite granite.
