Mark P Betts
Mount Baker Towers over Blakely Island
Mount Baker dominates a small harbor in the San Juan Islands.
How do you spell R-E-L-I-E-F (topographic that is)? I spell it Mount Baker ;) You are looking at 10,781 feet (3,286 m) of relief. Mt. Baker is 53 miles away from this photo location and that is Sherman crater near the top.
Mt. Baker is one of the Cascade Stratovolcanoes and is spectacular statistically as well as visually. Baker has set the record for snowfall in a year at 1,140 inches - that is 95 feet or 28.956 meters of snow. All this snow results in the most glacial ice of any of the Cascade volcanoes except Mt. Ranier. In fact, Baker's glaciers contain more ice by volume than all the rest of the Cascade volcanoes combined if you leave out Mt. Ranier.
Volcanic activity is very young here commencing only about 1.5 million years ago. The current crater down to about the edge of the snowline could be as young as 80,000-90,000 years ago or as "old" as 140,000 years ago. That is like yesterday on the geological time scale.
Finally, for all of you oceanographers out there, Mt. Baker was named for Joseph Baker who was 3rd Lieutenant on HMS Discovery (not as famous as HMS Beagle) who first saw and reported on Mt. Baker in 1792 to the captain of the voyage, George Vancouver.
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Mount Baker Towers over Blakely Island
Mount Baker dominates a small harbor in the San Juan Islands.
How do you spell R-E-L-I-E-F (topographic that is)? I spell it Mount Baker ;) You are looking at 10,781 feet (3,286 m) of relief. Mt. Baker is 53 miles away from this photo location and that is Sherman crater near the top.
Mt. Baker is one of the Cascade Stratovolcanoes and is spectacular statistically as well as visually. Baker has set the record for snowfall in a year at 1,140 inches - that is 95 feet or 28.956 meters of snow. All this snow results in the most glacial ice of any of the Cascade volcanoes except Mt. Ranier. In fact, Baker's glaciers contain more ice by volume than all the rest of the Cascade volcanoes combined if you leave out Mt. Ranier.
Volcanic activity is very young here commencing only about 1.5 million years ago. The current crater down to about the edge of the snowline could be as young as 80,000-90,000 years ago or as "old" as 140,000 years ago. That is like yesterday on the geological time scale.
Finally, for all of you oceanographers out there, Mt. Baker was named for Joseph Baker who was 3rd Lieutenant on HMS Discovery (not as famous as HMS Beagle) who first saw and reported on Mt. Baker in 1792 to the captain of the voyage, George Vancouver.
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