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   Baker Lake Area Climbing and Skiing

photo by E. Wehrly

With its massive snowfalls and close proximity to the Puget Sound, this area holds some of the best year-round skiing anywhere. So much to ski....

Sunrise on Mt Baker from below the Boulder-Park Cleaver

• One-Day Winter Ascent via Coleman-Deming
• North Ridge Retards
• North Ridge: "Skiing" the ice cliff
• My Favorite: Boulder-Park Cleaver to Park Headwall
• Park Headwall: Fifty-degree faceshots in October
• Sherman Peak

Corey skins Boulder-Park Cleaver with Mt Shuksan in the background

• Curtis Blow
• Fisher Chimneys Ski Descent
• North Face
• NF -> BYS Couloir: superlative steep skiing
• Price Glacier
  • Half Price
  • Price Is Right
  • Northeast Chute
• Nooksack Traverse (White Salmon Glacier Climb → Shuksan Summit Pyramid Climb and Ski → Crystal and Nooksack Glacier Skiing → Icy Peak → Spillway Glacier Ski → Ruth Mountain)

Mt Blum from Icy Peak by Dr. John Roper

• Skiing the Northwest Shoulder
• North Ridge granite
• Hagan Mountain, Mt Blum NE Glacier FWA, and Mt Blum's beautiful Cocaine Couloir

How's da Wedder? Baker summit forecast