RHH's photos with the keyword: herman saddle

This was a view of Mount Shuksan from the trail to Herman Saddle which we were hiking in October of 2020.

Taken on an October, 2020, hike to Herman Saddle with family members. There was a lot of early snow that autumn and we hiked through the snow.

Taken on a snowshoeing excursion to Artist's Point in the North Cascades near Mount Baker. I've a blog post about the excursion with more photos here: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2018/03/artists-point-on-snowshoes.html .

Taken on a snowshoeing excursion to Artist's Point in the North Cascades. Here is my blog post about the excursion: ronaldhanko-orchidhunter.blogspot.com/2018/03/artists-point-on-snowshoes.html

Taken on a 2019 snowshoeing excursion in the North Cascades near Mount Baker, this is Table Mountain.

Merry Christmas to all from the snowy Pacific Northwest. The photo was taken in 2019 on a snowshoeing excursion to Herman Saddle in the North Cascades. We seem to be having a similar winter with cold temperatures and a lot of snow.

On a recent trip to western Washington to visit with family there, we hiked partway up to Herman Saddle near Mount Baker. There was not enough snow for snowshoes - this was October - but enough to enjoy the winter weather there. The day was very bright and so many of the photos I took were under-exposed. This photo is of Lower Bagley Lake between the ski resort and Austin Pass. Table Mountain is visible in the background.

This is Lower Bagley Lake in late October. Bagley Lakes are near Mount Baker in the North Cascades and are a popular hiking and snowshoeing area year around. The photo was taken near the overflow parking lot for the Heather Meadows Ski Area.

We were not actually following the trail when this photo was taken, but climbing up the waterfall, and unnamed cascade near the Chain Lakes trail in the Mount Baker Wilderness. I was hiking there with one of my sons who is always off the trail climbing something. As is obvious from the photo, there is still snow at these elevations and for a good part of the hike we were hiking across snow.

After traveling for eleven days we ended up in Lynden, Washington, where we lived before retirement. We went there for a wedding and to see our youngest son and daughter-in-law who live there. Another son who was there for the wedding and I went hiking Friday from Austin Pass up to Herman Saddle near Mount Baker. We discovered that about half the trail was still snow-covered but went up anyway and had a time. The day was partly cloudy and we did not see Baker or Shuksan, but could see Table Mountain at times. Interestingly, the son with whom I hiked is named Herman and the place matches his name.

I went hiking last Friday with one of our sons. We hiked from Austin Pass, between Bagley Lakes and up Herman Saddle in the area of Mount Baker. The area and the trail still had a lot of snow and Bagley Lakes were largely frozen. This was Upper Bagley Lake from the trail.

This is the stream that connects Upper and Lower Bagley Lakes near Mount Baker. We crossed the stream and this point and picked up the trail on the left of the photo, the Chain Lakes trail, taking it up to Herman Saddle.

I've been thinking winter again since we have to drive cross-country next week and there is a major winter storm predicted for the midwest. It's easier to get around on snowshoes in such weather as we did in early March when we snowshoed to Herman Saddle near Mount Baker. The three photos are all from that excursion, this looking back toward the other end of Table Mountain.

This was taken near the end of a snowshoeing excursion to Herman Saddle near Mount Baker. Table Mountain is just visible in the background and I took the photo for the long shadow that lay ahead of us. Our destination was beyond the shadow and over the top of this ridge.

The shadows were still long when we snowshoed to Herman Saddle in the North Cascades near Mount Baker even though it was around noon when we arrived at our destination. Table Mountain is the rock slope on the right and Mount Baker is around the corner.

On our recent snowshoeing trek to Herman Saddle near Mount Baker we found these wheels of snow that had come down from the surrounding slopes and then fallen over.

When we snowshoed recently to Herman Saddle in the North Cascades near Mount Baker we followed Bagley Creek for part of the way and there were still areas that had not frozen over, this near the bridge that connects Austin Pass with the trail to Herman Saddle.

The area where we went snowshoeing is a popular off-piste skiing area as well and these ski trails were on the slopes of Table Mountain.