Why do I do this to myself?
I asked that question to a gentleman a few hundred feet above Helen Lake on mount Shasta. He did not speak English so she just pointed down the hill and mumbled something in German. I was brutally sick at Helen lake until four in the morning keeping everyone awake. Got a late start because of that and felt pretty decent the rest of the way up. Beautiful day, lots of sun, snow conditions were pretty solid until the afternoon and no wind at the summit. My most painful sunburn is one on my thigh from the car ride home...
I'll try to get some pics and a trip report up later. If you want to do some snow work on a 14k peak without being too technical Shasta's a great one to do it on. We took a guy who had never been past 10k before and he did fine.