Lassen Peak

I think we found another spot in South America But logistically, it's too complex to go there.

And this spot is near Lassen Peak, Lassen National Park in California.

And I'm in the Sacramento area, so that's not a – logistically, it's quite easy to get there.

There's some hiking involved.

Oh, absolutely.

I grew up by Mount Lassen, so I saw it all.

So it's sad that they can't see two inches in front of their face.

Yeah, isn't that the truth? That is the truth.

Beneath all of this, beneath the four cones and the glaciers and the forests and the springs and the town, the engine that drives everything is running.

the gorder plate the southernmost fragment of the once great juan de fuca plate is sliding northeast beneath the north american plate at roughly two and a half centimeters per year the speed at which your finger-nails grow This is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the tectonic boundary that runs from Cape Mendocino in Northern California to Southern British Columbia, the engine that has built every major volcano in the Cascade Range, from Lassen Peak in the south to Mount Baker in the north.

As the gorder plate descends into the mantle, friction and increasing temperature and pressure release water from the minerals in the subducting oceanic crust.

This water rises into the overlying mantle wedge, lowering the melting point of the rock, generating magma, molten rock less dense than the solid rock around it.

The home is like a villa, a mansion.

From, from our house, you can see Lassen Mountain.

It's, uh, about three miles from, uh, Shasta Lake, so it, it like very, very peaceful.

Beautiful, picturesque.

From Yosemite we went to Lake Tahoe.

From Lake Tahoe, uh, uh, we went to Mount Lassen.

From Mount Lassen we went to Mount Shasta, and we stayed in Yreka, I think for about a year.

Was it a year, Avery? Maybe not.

And we lived homeless, by the way.

Lake Almanor's right there.

Um, Mount Lassen's right there.

There's a lot of people that come for the Pacific Coast Trail.

It's, like, a big famous hike that people will come and do.

Mm-hmm

... and they definitely, when you go from that to Oblivion, which is the, uh, Cyrodiil, and of course Skyrim, like you're going from a very magical looking place to I could hike up near Mount Lassen.

It's, yeah, it's behind me that way, you know, 45-minute drive from Mount Lassen National Park, and that's, you know, Skyrim.

Yeah.

Like, and, and so there definitely is a setback, and so that's why I'm hoping if it's true that the next one's gonna be Hammerfell, where you're in the desert, I do hope they bring back some more fantastical-

I was sicker than I'd ever been, but I j- I just experienced this shift in my, um, in my, how I was feeling inside my body, and I, I remember one day taking a hike.

So even though I was so sick, I still enjoyed my hikes, and we have these beautiful trails back behind our house, and I would, you know, I would fast, and I would prepare to be able to take my morning walk, and it was called at my prayer walk, and I'd walk towards Mount Lassen and just talk to God.

And I was on my way back, and I began to feel just this urgency that was all too familiar.

I need to get to the bathroom, and I was doubled over in pain and trying to run home to get to the bathroom, and I was thinking to myself, "I still feel peace.

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Mount Lassen.

The smallest mountain range in the world-

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