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Mount Baker, also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount Saint Helens. Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field. While volcanism has persisted here for some 1.5 million years, the current glaciated cone is likely no more than 140,000 years old, and possibly no older than 80-90,000 years. Older volcanic edifices have mostly eroded away due to glaciation. |
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Mount Baker is the second most active volcano in the Cascades Mountain Range. Its last eruption was in 1880. At 10,781 feet, Mount Baker is the third highest mountain in the state of Washington, and the fifth highest mountain in the Cascades Mountain range. Mount Baker has ten major glaciers on it. |
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After Mount Rainier, Mount Baker is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade Range volcanoes; the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker, 0.43 cubic miles is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. It is also one of the snowiest places in the world; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located 8.7 miles to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season, 140 inches. |
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Below: View from the picnic lunch area of the two RV Gypsies |
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Below; After having a nice lunch picnic,
Karen Duquette photographed some nearby birds. |
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Below: Karen Duquette also photographed
some cute Chipmunks. |
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