We drove to the end of the Everett Memorial Highway on the south side of Mt Shasta to hike from the Old Ski Bowl Trailhead. We went up the Old Ski Bowl Trail and continued up the Green Butte Trail to 9.270 ft, we returned on the Green Butte Trail, for 4 miles and 1,400 ft of gain. We were surprised that we didn't see anyone else on these trails this morning. View from the trailhead
Lupine in bloom with a view of Green Butte 
views to the south
The Old Ski Bowl Trail was the short steep section of the loop, being closer to Green Butte.
Green Butte on the left, Mt Shasta to the rightzoom 
hiking up along the side of Green Butte
Hiking up past Green Butte, we watched the clouds come down over Mt Shasta
views back to the south
The trail continued up above Green Butte towards Green Butte Ridge
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Casaval Ridge on the left side
continuing up the trail
View of Mt Shasta from our lunch and turn around spot zoom
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There were different colored pumicesquirrel
Views as we hiked back down the trail
Looking across the bowl towards Green Butte from the lower Green Butte Trail
Red Butte
more clouds gathering over Mt Shasta as we neared the end of the trailsome of the wildflowers seen along the trail this morning:
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