Mount Baker Climber's Log

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mandrake

mandrake - Oct 31, 2005 7:37 pm

Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: July 16, 2004  Sucess!

Great conditions most of the way up -- bit icy up at the very top in the transition to the top of the mountain.

Franko1946 - Oct 2, 2005 10:45 pm

Route Climbed: Colman glacier Date Climbed: June 1978  Sucess!

Clear blue & gold day.

vancouver islander

vancouver islander - Sep 13, 2005 8:06 pm

Route Climbed: Easton/Deming Date Climbed: August 1997  Sucess!

My first Cascade volcano. Left camp at the top of the Railroad Grade with my son and a friend at 4am and summited about 10.30. Watched Rainer disappear in a rapidly advancing storm and got the heck out of there. Good baptism.

iluka

iluka - Sep 10, 2005 6:56 pm

Route Climbed: Coleman Glacier On Ski Date Climbed: February 26, 2005  Sucess!

We took advantage of the low snow this past winter and the good trailhead access and skied the route in one day. Able to drive to within 2 miles and 1,000 feet of the trailhead making it an 8,000 foot day! Skied up to the col then booted it up to the top as the summit ridge was a bit firm and icy. Topped it off by skiing down and leaving my ice ax back up at the col... doh!

dicey - Sep 4, 2005 12:58 pm

Route Climbed: Easton/ Squak Date Climbed: July 1999  Sucess!

Have also climbed via Boulder and Park

brother

brother - Sep 4, 2005 2:23 am

Route Climbed: Coleman/upper Deming Date Climbed: July 2005  Sucess!

Brilliant weather, windy on summit. Also summited in early '80s as a boy scout via easton glacier.

Kris DroBan

Kris DroBan - Aug 19, 2005 2:31 am

Route Climbed: Between Easton and Squak Date Climbed: 14. Aug.2005  Sucess!

With me on the top: Ola, Jola. Piotr and Andrzej

Perfect alternative to overcrowded Easton.

Posted by Kris DroBan on Aug 19, 2005 (6 Hits)

In the middle.

Our original plan was to go through Squak Glacier: as I remember from my previous climb, approach and climb is short and fast (in 1998 I climbed in 6 hours from parking lot to the top). Not this year. Glacier Squak with it's original route is impossible (everything is possible) to climb because of huge lines of crevices. On the other hand we have the Easton Glacier with it's crowds waking you up 12 am and is no way that you can go to sleep again because of every fifteen minutes next group of "mountain madness" is preparing for finale assault. So I decide lead my group in the middle, just exact between Easton and Squak. Although approach to the glacier and first couple of thousand feet is independent ,you can easily and quickly reach this place traversing left, Squak Glacier. So when you use Squak approach you need to traverse left using Colfax Peak as a direction.

Cheers Kris

kabernicola

kabernicola - Aug 17, 2005 4:14 am

Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: Aug-12-2005  Sucess!

1 am BC, 8 AM summit.

Easy to follow the footprints in the glacier except at the begining where the glacier is dry. This is also the most dangerous part of the route with the weakiest snow bridges.

Snow very soft getting down, so it would have been better to reach the summit earlier, 6 AM I guess.

Anyway was awesome the sunrise and the views from the summit were breaktaking.

It was amazing to have my wife as a partner as well

justinmosiman - Aug 14, 2005 9:20 pm

Route Climbed: Easton Date Climbed: August 14, 2005  Sucess!

Left at 1:00 AM from climbers camp. Reached summit by 7:00 AM. Snow was OK until around 9:00 AM then it got really soft. The crevases at the base were easy to navigate; just aim up the mountain.

Scott Dusek

Scott Dusek - Aug 9, 2005 8:58 pm

Route Climbed: Coleman-Deming Date Climbed: July 24th, 2005

Partner tuckered out at 9,600ft so we had to descend, so very very sad. Perfect day. Route was in good shape.

I Love Snow Cones - Aug 8, 2005 4:26 pm

Route Climbed: Coleman Date Climbed: August 7, 2005  Sucess!

Awesome hike. Really warm. Went to do the North Ridge from high camp but the crevasses were not passable. In case anyone was wondering, we were the retards who camped right below the Icefall at 8200 feet. A ranger, who apparently was a brain surgeon before, told us (with a sweet mountain man lisp) the folly of camping there. Thanks Ranger Rick!! We ended up summating to a windy but mild morning. The crevasses were huge!! If you see any really well used snow cones thank my buddy.

cottersnow - Aug 4, 2005 4:54 pm

Route Climbed: North Ridge Date Climbed: 7-20-05  Sucess!

Holy crowds! Fun route. Accidentally (well kind of) decended down the Easton glacier and hitched a ride back into town.

mosquito - Aug 2, 2005 8:12 pm

Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: 31 Aug 2005  Sucess!

Awesome climb on beautiful facile route.



Crater below Sherman peak was venting Hydrogen Sulphide and steaming.



Summit was cloudless, but very windy and cold. But what a view from this cascade monster.



Great trip!

haytraci

haytraci - Jul 28, 2005 6:49 pm

Route Climbed: Coleman Glacier Date Climbed: June 2002  Sucess!

My first real climb through glaciated territory and loved every minute of it. It was an intense experience in true focus and taught me many skills I use frequently to this day.

mattdalman

mattdalman - Jul 20, 2005 11:23 pm

Route Climbed: Squak-Easton Date Climbed: August 4, 2003  Sucess!

Set up high camp below Sherman Peak on the Squak glacier. Woke up at midnight and started up the Squak, but had route finding problems with all the crevasses so we traversed over to the Easton and made the summit with spectacular views. On the descent, clouds rolled in making it hard to see where to go. Thank goodness for wands! Fun climb.

forjan

forjan - Jul 7, 2005 4:09 pm

Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: July 3, 2005  Sucess!

Climbed with agorokhov and ClimbingSnow. Started at 3:00pm from Shreiber's Meadow trailhead (3364') and go to our camp (6400') by 7:00pm on partial white-out conditions. Not sure if it was going to clear, we prepared anyway and hoped for the best. Then, by 10:30pm, it cleared (a sea of stars on the night's sky above). Woke up and walked out of camp at 3:30am. By 4:45am, we didn't need our headlamps. Reached the summit at 9:30am (6 hrs from camp); we're slow. Mostly sunny & clear , but windy at the summit. Excellent views all around. Could see Glacier Peak, Rainier, Shuksan and several other North Cascade peaks. Three hours later we're back to camp. Rested for an hour and then we hiked out. We stopped to eat dinner at Tacos Guaymas in Burlington (I highly recommend the Beef Steak 'Wet' Burrito).

lidijagrazulis

lidijagrazulis - Jun 23, 2005 8:05 pm

Route Climbed: Easton Glacier Date Climbed: June 19, 2005  Sucess!

Fun, easy, glacier climb on a (mostly) gorgeous day! A little white-out came up while we were on the summit and made the descent a little more exciting, but that cleared up before long.

ericb - Jun 1, 2005 12:35 pm

Route Climbed: Coleman - Deming Date Climbed: May 27 - May 28, 2005  Sucess!

We left at 9:30pm from the Heliotrope Ridge Trailhead and summitted at 5:15am. It was a warm evening, so the snow below the Black Buttes was soft. But, once we got up to the saddle, the snow had set up pretty good. The Roman Wall was still steep (of course), but we were able to kick steps in the firm snow.



Watch out below the Black Buttes. We stumbled onto a couple of small open crevasses. Glad we decided to rope up there.



Overall it took about 13 hours car to car.

Alpine Eric - Apr 29, 2005 4:07 pm

Route Climbed: Coleman Glacier Date Climbed: July 10, 1999  Sucess!

Kind of disappointing to see snow mobilers on the summit after the long slog to the top but as always it was worth it. You could literally play football on Baker's summit, it's huge up there.

Dan Winter

Dan Winter - Mar 18, 2005 3:35 pm Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2004

Route Climbed: Easton Glacier. Date Climbed: 7/16/04-7/17/-4  Sucess!

A fun trip in good weather with the Seattle Mountaineers. After being hosed by the weather on previous attempts up the Boulder Glacier and Coleman glacier routes I finally summited this mountain.

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