Mt. Baker Climb - Photo Essay
Posted 10-04-2008 at 05:23 PM by Robby in WA
My brother-in-law, my son, a friend, and I decided to try to climb Mt. Baker for my son's fifteenth birthday last summer. It was also the summer solstice the day we summited. It's 10,778' high and ~30 miles from the ocean.
( Pics are from a point and shoot. )
Here's how it looks from the water.
We started at ~3,400' and took a route up the Coleman Glacier to the Roman Wall.
We set up base camp near the terminus of the glacier at ~5,800'.
A tele-photo of the mountain from camp.
Looking north from camp as the sun goes down over the Fraiser Valley, we could see the lights of southern Vancouver ( Richmond, Langley, etc. )
Looking west from camp over the San Juan Archipelago.
We made an Alpine start at 2:30 in the morning for the summit.
The weather turned bad and the clouds rolled in.
Finally able to take our headlamps off.
After a while we made it above the clouds.
The Deming and Easton glaciers, an easier route. See if you can spot the other climbers.
The crater near the summit, you could smell the sulfur.
On top at ~9am.
Enjoying the view.
Heading down.
My brother-in-law hurt his knee, so we let him glissade ( slide ) some of the way down while we controlled his speed. When we got back to camp we discovered his tent had blown away with all of his stuff in it, we looked for it for about an hour, but finally had to give up. We broke camp and made back it to car at ~4:00 in the afternoon.
( Pics are from a point and shoot. )
Here's how it looks from the water.
We started at ~3,400' and took a route up the Coleman Glacier to the Roman Wall.
We set up base camp near the terminus of the glacier at ~5,800'.
A tele-photo of the mountain from camp.
Looking north from camp as the sun goes down over the Fraiser Valley, we could see the lights of southern Vancouver ( Richmond, Langley, etc. )
Looking west from camp over the San Juan Archipelago.
We made an Alpine start at 2:30 in the morning for the summit.
The weather turned bad and the clouds rolled in.
Finally able to take our headlamps off.
After a while we made it above the clouds.
The Deming and Easton glaciers, an easier route. See if you can spot the other climbers.
The crater near the summit, you could smell the sulfur.
On top at ~9am.
Enjoying the view.
Heading down.
My brother-in-law hurt his knee, so we let him glissade ( slide ) some of the way down while we controlled his speed. When we got back to camp we discovered his tent had blown away with all of his stuff in it, we looked for it for about an hour, but finally had to give up. We broke camp and made back it to car at ~4:00 in the afternoon.
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