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Shasta Tourism (Geoshort) · PlanetGeo: The Geology Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to Planet Geo, the podcast where we talk about our amazing planet, how it works, and why it matters to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, welcome to Planet Geo, and it's Geo Short Week again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Our interview last week with Dr.
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  SPEAKER_00: Andrew Calvert, scientist in charge of Calvo, the California Volcano Observatory, was just so fun and interesting that we had too much good stuff to work with.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we decided to dedicate one more Geo Short to extra stuff from this interview.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now Shasta is one of these large, incredibly striking volcanoes that is part of the Cascadia volcano chain that extends from Northern California all the way into Canada.
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  SPEAKER_00: And these volcanoes are generated by a subduction zone right off the coast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those really help us promote the importance of the geosciences, and we really appreciate them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, they're everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, I didn't know that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, so I don't know by particular flavors of religious folks that are that are on the volcano, but I do run into people who were generally looking for crystals or looking for portals or asking me whether I've found places with lots of energy.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I I get those those questions.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like Sedona, Arizona, or Japan or something.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you really get all types, and it's it's it's great.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're they're a nice bunch of people and they're enjoying the world.
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  SPEAKER_02: For sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Andy, I have a couple questions then off script for you that are not really a part of the uh podcast, I don't think.
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  SPEAKER_02: But I one thing I struggle with is um Shasta is one of the most incredible places on the planet to me.
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  SPEAKER_02: And so is Lassen.
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  SPEAKER_02: I think Lassen is incredible.
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  SPEAKER_02: And yet Northern California is suffering from economically, and I don't get it.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't understand why.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because these Shasta dominates the landscape.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's one of the things about it.
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  SPEAKER_02: It not only does it have Shastina, but it's just so massive that you can't help but just be in awe.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why is this not a tourist destination?
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't understand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a good question.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's um California is not really thought of as volcano country in a lot of ways, and and it's it's a fair distance from the transportation from Crater Lake and all that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, and and from uh San Francisco, and and people don't get up there that much.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shasta isn't the easiest place to visit, you know, it's it doesn't have a lot of great trails.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's it's a hard climb.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you know, John Muir wanted to make it a national park and failed.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I I always send people if people want to visit a volcano, I send them to Lassen because that is an accessible place.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can you can you know drive over the top, you can visit bubbling mud, you can walk to the top pretty easily.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's only 10,000 feet, and and there's so much to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's really one of the great destinations.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um I just wondered about like all the communities around Shasta that are just you know, people would pay a lot of money to have that view out of their backyard, and it's dying.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the the demise of the logging industry, I think, is a lot of it that that those those towns were really built on the mill, and uh they've tried to diversify into water and various things, but I don't have a good answer because I I really do love it too.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's uh it's a pretty sparsely populated part of the world of California.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's um it is you know, Crater Lake does get more heat.
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  SPEAKER_02: Crater Lake is not accessible either, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's but it's accessible from your car.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's it's a pretty good place to visit for um you know just being able to see, you know, and and to to really to really get close.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it that's a good question.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's uh you know, and volcanoes are are usually pretty places, no matter which one you're on.
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  SPEAKER_01: And like Long Valley is beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't have a good qu a good answer to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love it up there.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: I just wanted to get your input on that.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's just the first thought that I had the first time I went to um Shasta and Last and so on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: All right, that's a wrap for this week, and tune in next week for the first in our new series of episodes on how the geosciences has affected historical events.
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  SPEAKER_00: See ya.