As soon as we’d gotten our small but bombproof mountaineering tent set up and anchored in the snow at Lake Helen, on California’s Mount Shasta, we discovered that the tent was designed for two ...

Mt. Shasta, right, and its geologic sibling Shastina, left, as seen from Alma Street in the city of Mt. Shasta. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) That’s a big part of the appeal but it comes ...