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Posted: 12 Sep 2014


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Mount Baker and Coleman Glacier

Mount Baker and Coleman Glacier
This will be my last post for a few days. Edward and I leave early tomorrow morning for our Mount Baker climb. We’ll be meeting our guide and the rest of the group in Bellingham and will be heading from there to the Heliotrope Ridge trailhead in Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Tomorrow we hike with packs two miles and 1000 feet of elevation to the end of the Heliotrope Ridge trail and then another mile and another 1000 feet of elevation to our campsite near Coleman Glacier. Saturday morning we start early (around 1:00 am) and hike another nine miles across Coleman Glacier and up another 5500 feet of elevation to the summit. After spending time at the summit we hike all the way back down (approx. 12 miles), retrieving our backpacks and camping gear on the way down. I’ve been training hard for this and am looking forward to it, but am also somewhat apprehensive, since besides a climb of Long’s Peak years ago this is something I’ve never done before.

This is the description of the climb on the website of the company providing our guide: Mount Baker, with its huge glaciers and lofty size dominate the landscape for over a hundred miles in all directions. This fire breathing mountain is home to the thickest sheets of ice in the contiguous 48 states making this climb one to remember. Our climb starts with full packs in temperate rain-forests. The hike then takes us up and up into gradually changing ecosystems until we reach the sub-alpine Hog’s Back. Here we bathe in views of the Coleman and Roosevelt glaciers with the Canadian Coast range to the North as we set camp. On summit day we rise early and rope up. From camp to the top the climb is spent entirely on glacier. We climb the Coleman glacier while traversing under the steep rock walls and ice cliffs of the Black-Buttes. This takes us to the Roman Slope where we gain big views to the south and climb the last 1,500 feet to the summit which is 10,770 feet of elevation.

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20 comments - The latest ones
 Clint
Clint
Wow. I've never done anything close to this. Good luck!
10 years ago.
 Annemarie
Annemarie club
super
Have a marvellous weekend:)
10 years ago.
 Stormlizard
Stormlizard club
A beautiful view of nature.

Good luck on your climb.
10 years ago.
 J.Garcia
J.Garcia club
Good luck for your climb!!!!!, Ron
Wonderful !!
10 years ago.
 William Sutherland
William Sutherland club
Breathtaking! Good luck on your climb!
10 years ago.
 Fizgig
Fizgig
Great shot! Have a great climb =)
10 years ago.
 Don Sutherland
Don Sutherland club
Majestic view. Have a great climb.
10 years ago.
 Nora Caracci
Nora Caracci club
magnificent view !
have a lovely journey, it looks very interesting, see you soon !
10 years ago.
 Scott Lilley
Scott Lilley
Fantastic mountain and ice view.Well captured.
10 years ago.
 tiabunna
tiabunna club
A fine image of this impressive peak. I'd imagine you're now on your way, so look forward to some great tales and images on your return.
10 years ago.
 (*NIKonGT*)
(*NIKonGT*)
Great landscape and wonderful captured.
10 years ago.
 Kathleen Thorpe
Kathleen Thorpe club
Good luck on your tremendous-sounding hike!! I can't even imagine. Congratulations on Explore.
10 years ago.
 Sylvie Coeffic
Sylvie Coeffic
Great place! :-)
10 years ago.
 Eve
Eve
Un beau programme à vivre intensément !

Bonne randonnée avec de belles !!
10 years ago. Edited 10 years ago.
 niraK68
niraK68 club
fantastic nature and shot
10 years ago.
 Dave Roberts 2014
Dave Roberts 2014
A great view of the snowy mountain Ron, nice blue sky.

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10 years ago.
 Esther
Esther club
Gorgeous shot. Best wishes for this arduous climb. It sounds like quite the adventure.
10 years ago.
 Eunice Perkins
Eunice Perkins club
Magnificent scenery!
10 years ago.

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