Waika

Waika is a Shasta name recorded for the great snow-covered mountain that rises at the southern end of the Cascade Range. Its volcanic slopes dominate the country between the Sacramento Valley and the Klamath region. Indigenous paths ran past the mountain, connecting the valleys of California with lands farther north. In 1817 the Spanish missionary Narciso Durán described the distant snow-covered peak, and in the following decade fur traders traveled through the surrounding country along routes already known to its inhabitants.