Mount McLoughlin in many ways is similar to Mount Jefferson. Although Jefferson contains similar levels of erosion from glaciers, it is active while Mount McLoughlin is not. One day in the distant future this volcano may erupt again.
I love when you make videos about volcanoes I could drive to in a few hours. Is that volcano accessible to people who want to go check it out? By the way they probably should be monitoring it. Here's a great idea I just thought of, how about a video listing all the volcanoes that are active and not monitored but should be.
I am always surprised by the relatively young age of many of these volcanoes. The continental plate subduction zones must have been around for many millions of years. Where are all the volcanoes that would have been created in all those years?
At a geology talk at Yakima Valley Community College, a local geologist said that the longest andesite flow known came from the cascade range and flowed many miles (30?, not sure) and stopped on the west edge of Yakima, WA at the local "Fred Meyers" grocery store. It was a nice little humorous injection into his talk. I think he said that the volcano that it came from had mostly eroded away, if I remember correctly. Anyway, I do drive past McLoughlin several times a year. It is a beautiful volcanic area with lots of wonderful camping. Mt Thielsen, OR is an interesting volcano too, just north of Crater Lake NP. It also has fulgurites, substances that form when lightning melts rock. I don't think that you have a video on this. Thanks for this video on McLoughlin. Good work.
As an original Seattleite, I grew up at the edge of the mighty Cascade mountain range. And, as a trucker, I've traveled up hwy 97 through Klamath Falls, and had a great view of Mt. McLoughlin from across Upper Klamath Lake. It's heart warming to get a peek at the Peaks of the Cascades! More, please!
Hiked up it when I was a kid. Still one of my fondest memories. The view is amazing. I think we could see as far as Mt Hood. Not sure about any farther. You look down on Crater lake and the trees are tiny. There is or was a WWII lookout at the top. Had hard wire that ran down the mountain. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend going to the top in the summer. I guess it would be beginners. Just a long hike up. You can do it in a day. Even better if you are camping there.
Excellent video as always. I try to leave a like when I can. Would love to see a video on the Brown Mountain and/or Pelican Butte volcanoes sometime in the future if you haven't already. Keep up the great work!
There are the remains of a Forest Service Lookout on the peak of Mt McLoughlin aka Mt Pitt. The hike to the summit is mostly gentle 5.5 mile depending on your starting point. No special equipment beyond sturdy cloths, water, and snacks are needed. The view is excellent.
I've skied down this one from the very top! Such an amazing view from the summit, not too difficult of a climb with snowshoes. Thanks for covering this one!
Thank you for doing this one I’ve spent so much of my life around this mountain and have never been able to find any information about it since the US GS does not have equipment placed on this mountain
If you live near it you should go there and get videos of the rocks and also the plants, because there are always cool rare plants and flowers near volcanoes.
@@edwardlulofs444 I would drive there, if my car didn't need repairs and wasn't a diesel. I live a few hours away in California, although part of that is Highway 199. Diesel is $7 a gallon where I live in California right now, and my old car needs repairs including things that are important while traveling like, the windows only rolling down an inch on one side of the car and not at all on the other, and the door locks no longer working. What do gas and diesel cost in Oregon now, they have always been way cheaper than California.
@@jimedick9496 Regular gasoline was $5.89 the last time my boyfriend took a picture of the pumps, within the last few days. Diesel was $6.79 at that station at the time. It was in McKinleyville, California which is near Arcata in Humboldt County. He has a picture from a few days before when regular gas was $6.09 and diesel was $7.19 per gallon, same gas station a few days before.
I’m a long time viewer and I love your content! I especially like how your daily videos gives a good idea of the growth of your videos. Is there any way we can get a video on the central Texas caves, specifically the Inner Space Caverns in Georgetown, Texas? I totally understand if you’re not interested, as I know you don’t usually do cave systems. Thanks again for the amazing content, I always look forward to my geological survey of the day!
@@penningtonknickernacker921 May 18th 1980 to be precise. And I said they're NOT AS ACTIVE as most other volcanoes, meaning they haven't erupted as much as other volcanoes that sit along subduction zones.
This is why I only label volcanoes extinct if they haven’t erupted in over 100,000 years but there’s still volcanoes that only erupt every 250,000 years and some even longer than that.
It's like recurrent novae of stars, some have outbursts every dozen years.. some every few hundred and others on even longer timescales. Many nebulae have concentric shells of plasma around them evident of their history.
It's next to impossible to tell if a volcano is truly extinct or has merely been dormant for an extended period. We can't see deep enough into the ground to truly know what's going on.
Mt. Theilsen used to have the southernmost glacier in the entire state of Oregon, but in the last few years, it's completely gone. 😭 There was a big article about it finally melting away.
Is it strange that in 25,000 years, the forest hasnt reclaimed the mountain's last lava flow? Is there something about some lava flows, their unique minerals maybe, that resists plant recolonization more than other lavas? why do different volcanos, even neighboring ones produce different lavas and different eruptions, when they have the same underlying formation?
Giant piles of basalt boulders and no soil to root into, I think makes it quite difficult to establish a new forest. There are trees that creep in from the borders, but it takes quite a long time apparently. The shrubbery does much better, and is mixed in everywhere amongst the lava flows.
I recall a trip to Crater Lake and they mentioned that the "clearings" found in the forests were the result of a lack of bacteria in the soil that helped reduced the rocks into something the trees could use. And yes, trees cannot grow into the thick beds of lava, but shrubs and flowers and the like can once blowing soil accumulates enough for roots. But I also imagine the lack of soil and the soil bacteria contribute as well. Down in New Mexico we have a lava flow about 3,000 years old and its a bit more barren., although grasses and shrubs are there mostly due to the winds blowing soil into the rocks. We have lots a W word here in NM and unfortunately its wind and not water.
so appreciate your presentations on what are for some of us, are HOME PLACE mountains. o wonder if you are interested in explaining the varieties of lava. only recently have I heard the term Andesite lava. (I am certain I have been missing something!!!) I think of rhyolite, and basalt. It is a special time of day, viewing these presentations, as they transport me to landforms I love.
Another unique Southern Oregon geological curiosity are the Table Rocks, to the east of McLoughlin. Both volcanic tops cut off flat by .... would make an interesting video
Most flat rocks that are volcanic are formed as lava flows, around where I live are mesas , which are basalt lava flies from Joe’s hill Volcano and some others .
That definitely looks very tall makes me wonder if it will eruot within the next few hundred or even thousands of years I'm surprised that it's dormant which means sleeping
Can you possibly cover the geological events that took place at the geo coordinates 77.26 104.48 it appears to have some strange formations, to the point some biblical history says it might be related to the great turtle, and it's resting place. if you could do a video or give information on this area, I would love to know more! Thank you for your constant informative service!
I want this volcano to erupt. My favorite lava flow type is the massive T H I C C lava flow type, as they're extra sexy, and the relatively low gas content means it is safe to view (from a distance of course, drones recommended)
In the wake of water shortages, why aren't the biggest volcanoes being stripped of the snow and ice, to lessen the possibility of a dangerous lahar? It would be interesting to see people that need jobs do something like that to use the snow to be a benefit to animals and humans alike.
@@peterf.229 : People have been putting skies on wagons way before I was born and I was born in 1958. Fill up a wagon with snow and use snowcats, they're similar to snowmobiles but a lot bigger and bring them down the mountain to awaiting tankers, because when you get them down far enough the snow will start melting. I know it sounds ambitious to a basement dweller, but it could be done. If anything it would help in case the volcano erupts and then there won't be a lahar, like Mt. Saint Helen in Washington. Most of the damage was from the lahar and not the lava, if I can remember right.
I believe the government (USGS) officially wiped away the usage of the word "squaw" from all territorial designations. You must be using old cartographic sources that still contain the offensive name for a Native American women that implied "slave". Maybe in future videos vet/update your sources a little better? It would be the respectful thing to do for your viewers.
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Mount McLoughlin in many ways is similar to Mount Jefferson. Although Jefferson contains similar levels of erosion from glaciers, it is active while Mount McLoughlin is not. One day in the distant future this volcano may erupt again.
I love when you make videos about volcanoes I could drive to in a few hours. Is that volcano accessible to people who want to go check it out? By the way they probably should be monitoring it. Here's a great idea I just thought of, how about a video listing all the volcanoes that are active and not monitored but should be.
I am always surprised by the relatively young age of many of these volcanoes.
The continental plate subduction zones must have been around for many millions of years.
Where are all the volcanoes that would have been created in all those years?
@@rogerwilco2 checkout the documentary Ghost volcanoes of the cascades to answer your question.
How come the cascades don’t erupt as much as other places around the pacific rim? I’d love to see a video on that
@@jjMcCartan9686 where can one find the documentary about ghost volcanoes at?
Thank you for covering this volcano! The view of McLoughlin coming down the hill toward Medford on I-5 south is spectacular.
At a geology talk at Yakima Valley Community College, a local geologist said that the longest andesite flow known came from the cascade range and flowed many miles (30?, not sure) and stopped on the west edge of Yakima, WA at the local "Fred Meyers" grocery store. It was a nice little humorous injection into his talk. I think he said that the volcano that it came from had mostly eroded away, if I remember correctly.
Anyway, I do drive past McLoughlin several times a year. It is a beautiful volcanic area with lots of wonderful camping.
Mt Thielsen, OR is an interesting volcano too, just north of Crater Lake NP. It also has fulgurites, substances that form when lightning melts rock. I don't think that you have a video on this.
Thanks for this video on McLoughlin. Good work.
I am SO glad you covered this volcano!!! This is one of the most overlooked and yet beautiful volcanoes in the entire Cascade range!!! 💙💙💙
As an original Seattleite, I grew up at the edge of the mighty Cascade mountain range. And, as a trucker, I've traveled up hwy 97 through Klamath Falls, and had a great view of Mt. McLoughlin from across Upper Klamath Lake. It's heart warming to get a peek at the Peaks of the Cascades! More, please!
Hiked up it when I was a kid. Still one of my fondest memories. The view is amazing. I think we could see as far as Mt Hood. Not sure about any farther. You look down on Crater lake and the trees are tiny. There is or was a WWII lookout at the top. Had hard wire that ran down the mountain. If you are ever in the area, I highly recommend going to the top in the summer. I guess it would be beginners. Just a long hike up. You can do it in a day. Even better if you are camping there.
Can’t get enough of Oregonian volcanoes facts love the videos. I’ve watched all of them!!! Can’t get enough!
I requested this one a while back, I don't know if he caught it, but I'm also waiting for Mt. Ashland.
I can't help but get a little excited each time I see a Oregon volcano video since I have lived here all my life. Excellent video as usual.
Excellent video as always. I try to leave a like when I can. Would love to see a video on the Brown Mountain and/or Pelican Butte volcanoes sometime in the future if you haven't already. Keep up the great work!
This is awesome information, thanks for making this and other videos about the volcanoes of Southern Oregon
Just a thank you for this channel. I just smash the key everytime i see a new clip from you, always engaging and very interesting.
There are the remains of a Forest Service Lookout on the peak of Mt McLoughlin aka Mt Pitt. The hike to the summit is mostly gentle 5.5 mile depending on your starting point. No special equipment beyond sturdy cloths, water, and snacks are needed. The view is excellent.
Just love what you do on all these volcanoes, it's amazing!
I feel like I gotta visit more of this line of volcanoes. Hood is the only one I've driven to. Crater Lake is high on the list.
Thanks. Been wanting to ask you about McLoughlin. Beautiful view of it driving south on I-5 approaching Medford.
I've skied down this one from the very top! Such an amazing view from the summit, not too difficult of a climb with snowshoes. Thanks for covering this one!
Thank you for doing this one I’ve spent so much of my life around this mountain and have never been able to find any information about it since the US GS does not have equipment placed on this mountain
If you live near it you should go there and get videos of the rocks and also the plants, because there are always cool rare plants and flowers near volcanoes.
@@adriennefloreen I second that. Mt McLoughlin, OR is a wonderful area.
@@edwardlulofs444 I would drive there, if my car didn't need repairs and wasn't a diesel. I live a few hours away in California, although part of that is Highway 199. Diesel is $7 a gallon where I live in California right now, and my old car needs repairs including things that are important while traveling like, the windows only rolling down an inch on one side of the car and not at all on the other, and the door locks no longer working. What do gas and diesel cost in Oregon now, they have always been way cheaper than California.
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Last I looked, diesel is around $5.50
It’s more than I want to spend.
@@jimedick9496 Regular gasoline was $5.89 the last time my boyfriend took a picture of the pumps, within the last few days. Diesel was $6.79 at that station at the time. It was in McKinleyville, California which is near Arcata in Humboldt County. He has a picture from a few days before when regular gas was $6.09 and diesel was $7.19 per gallon, same gas station a few days before.
Mt McLoughlin is a one day hike which I would recommend. Not easy but not hard.
I'm loving these focused videos, would love to see more!
Thank you for finally covering my favorite volcano I know nothing about!
There's a lot of Volcanism in the Cascades that I don't think is well known.
As such, I find myself very curious about Brown Mountain 🤔
Wow, right near where I grew up. Would love to see you talk about Mt Shasta too!
I’m curious what your thoughts are on the New Madrid fault in southeastern Missouri. Excellent and informative video as always!
I’m a long time viewer and I love your content! I especially like how your daily videos gives a good idea of the growth of your videos.
Is there any way we can get a video on the central Texas caves, specifically the Inner Space Caverns in Georgetown, Texas? I totally understand if you’re not interested, as I know you don’t usually do cave systems.
Thanks again for the amazing content, I always look forward to my geological survey of the day!
Love the updates! Thankyou for everything you put into the channels of info 👍🏻
I've always been curious as to why the cascades aren't as volcanically active compared to most other volcanoes that sit along subduction zones
@@penningtonknickernacker921 May 18th 1980 to be precise. And I said they're NOT AS ACTIVE as most other volcanoes, meaning they haven't erupted as much as other volcanoes that sit along subduction zones.
Mt St Helen’s has erupted since the 1980 eruption.
This is why I only label volcanoes extinct if they haven’t erupted in over 100,000 years but there’s still volcanoes that only erupt every 250,000 years and some even longer than that.
Volcanoes erupt, like earthquakes happen, as frequently or as seldomly as they want.
It's like recurrent novae of stars, some have outbursts every dozen years.. some every few hundred and others on even longer timescales. Many nebulae have concentric shells of plasma around them evident of their history.
It's next to impossible to tell if a volcano is truly extinct or has merely been dormant for an extended period. We can't see deep enough into the ground to truly know what's going on.
@@DK-gy7llwe can easily find out if there’s magma beneath a volcano and exactly know how much magma is there. The problem is money not technology.
@@Deriv801 Yes, maybe Chaos Theory.
Always watch through the end and give a golf clap for the new patron.
That a truly majestic peak 🙂
Thank you so much! I'm going to become a patron now.
Have you ever cover the extinct volcano in Oregon, Mt, Theilsen? One of the most visually striking mountains.
Mt. Theilsen used to have the southernmost glacier in the entire state of Oregon, but in the last few years, it's completely gone. 😭 There was a big article about it finally melting away.
@April Morris Until about 100 years ago, Mount McLoughlin had a glacier.
Awesome. I grew up in sight of this mountain :)
thank you for covering this, you are awesome! im definately sign up!
0:13 This profile looks a lot like Mt Taranaki in New Zealand. Difference being Taranaki rises out of flat farm land.
Great video! I’m a local and have climbed it twice.
Do one on Mammoth Mountain in California which is a dormant volcano.
Is it strange that in 25,000 years, the forest hasnt reclaimed the mountain's last lava flow? Is there something about some lava flows, their unique minerals maybe, that resists plant recolonization more than other lavas? why do different volcanos, even neighboring ones produce different lavas and different eruptions, when they have the same underlying formation?
Giant piles of basalt boulders and no soil to root into, I think makes it quite difficult to establish a new forest. There are trees that creep in from the borders, but it takes quite a long time apparently. The shrubbery does much better, and is mixed in everywhere amongst the lava flows.
Because 25,000 years is a complete fiction.
@@pamelah6431 -Explain.
I recall a trip to Crater Lake and they mentioned that the "clearings" found in the forests were the result of a lack of bacteria in the soil that helped reduced the rocks into something the trees could use.
And yes, trees cannot grow into the thick beds of lava, but shrubs and flowers and the like can once blowing soil accumulates enough for roots. But I also imagine the lack of soil and the soil bacteria contribute as well.
Down in New Mexico we have a lava flow about 3,000 years old and its a bit more barren., although grasses and shrubs are there mostly due to the winds blowing soil into the rocks. We have lots a W word here in NM and unfortunately its wind and not water.
@@chrismanspeaker9372 Nice, thanks for that addition :) I wonder if they meant clearings with soil, or clearings full of lava rock flows.
so appreciate your presentations on what are for some of us, are HOME PLACE mountains. o wonder if you are interested in explaining the varieties of lava. only recently have I heard the term Andesite lava. (I am certain I have been missing something!!!) I think of rhyolite, and basalt. It is a special time of day, viewing these presentations, as they transport me to landforms I love.
My favorite kinds of lava are ʻaʻā and pāhoehoe. 'a'a because it would hurt to walk barefoot on it. And pāhoehoe means smooth and ropy.
What do you mean by home place mountains?
@@kar460 Mountains near where he lives.
@@edwardlulofs444 ohh! I've never thought about that🤦♂️
Have you done a video on on Jefferson and Diamond Peak?
I really like this video and it’s fanbase.
Mt Thielsen is another volcano is southern Oregon somewhat similar to McLoughlin. How about a video on it.
Yea!! Thank you!!😁🌋👍
Is the photo at 2:20 of Mt. McLaughlin, or is it being used to illustrate a talking point?
Can you do the mt konocti volcanic field
What is the crater/caldera like feature northeast of mount yamsey?
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If I could please request a volcano to cover, I would request Mt Canobolas or the Warrumbungles in NSW Australia.
I have a very strong felling that you're going to do Pelican Butte and Brown mountain sometime soon. Possibly by the end of the Month?
All of these volcanoes I didn't know about!
Thanks!!! Great video.
Another unique Southern Oregon geological curiosity are the Table Rocks, to the east of McLoughlin. Both volcanic tops cut off flat by .... would make an interesting video
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Most flat rocks that are volcanic are formed as lava flows, around where I live are mesas , which are basalt lava flies from Joe’s hill Volcano and some others .
Hi. Can you do a piece on Mt. Diablo please?
Very interesting
I love driving up I5 and highway 395 and 97. A geologist dream
That definitely looks very tall makes me wonder if it will eruot within the next few hundred or even thousands of years I'm surprised that it's dormant which means sleeping
It’s labeled as extinct not dormant.
@@bigrooster6893 he just said in the video THATS IT'S BY NO MEANS EXTINCT 😂
@@jjMcCartan9686 I didn’t say it was extinct reread everything. People always want to comment something without fully reading everything.
0:55 I thought Shield Volcanoes almost never could be found in the Cascades
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Can you do a video on Ojos del Salado
I have Mt Taranaki in my back yard in the North Island of New Zealand. This mountain looks a little similar.
Take a look at Pingualuit Crater if you have time. I love your vids.
Sorry but I see you already have a vid and didn’t see it.
The Cascade mountains are the most beautiful in North America.
Do the Badlands and Rockie mountains of Alberta and British Columbia
It's climbable and skiable.
Woah, finally an american fuji
make a video about brown mountain
Chemical weathering!
I would appreciate your thoughts.
I was hearing Amosite lava not Andesite lava and thought "hmm, asbestos lava is a thing?" until I turned on captions.
Wow and I thought mount McLoughlin was an extinct volcano due to its form
The glaciation ?
I think the prize for the most conical, symetrical stratovolcano belongs to Kronotsky. It almost looks unreal.
Can you possibly cover the geological events that took place at the geo coordinates 77.26 104.48 it appears to have some strange formations, to the point some biblical history says it might be related to the great turtle, and it's resting place. if you could do a video or give information on this area, I would love to know more! Thank you for your constant informative service!
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I want this volcano to erupt. My favorite lava flow type is the massive T H I C C lava flow type, as they're extra sexy, and the relatively low gas content means it is safe to view (from a distance of course, drones recommended)
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In the wake of water shortages, why aren't the biggest volcanoes being stripped of the snow and ice, to lessen the possibility of a dangerous lahar? It would be interesting to see people that need jobs do something like that to use the snow to be a benefit to animals and humans alike.
How would this be done ?
@@peterf.229 : People have been putting skies on wagons way before I was born and I was born in 1958. Fill up a wagon with snow and use snowcats, they're similar to snowmobiles but a lot bigger and bring them down the mountain to awaiting tankers, because when you get them down far enough the snow will start melting. I know it sounds ambitious to a basement dweller, but it could be done. If anything it would help in case the volcano erupts and then there won't be a lahar, like Mt. Saint Helen in Washington. Most of the damage was from the lahar and not the lava, if I can remember right.
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I believe the government (USGS) officially wiped away the usage of the word "squaw" from all territorial designations. You must be using old cartographic sources that still contain the offensive name for a Native American women that implied "slave". Maybe in future videos vet/update your sources a little better? It would be the respectful thing to do for your viewers.
and I as well as many others believe you should get over yourself.
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