![]() The third main name for the mountain is Spelhpálhx̠en, meaning "many meadows," refers to the sheltered meadows below around 5,500 feet. ![]() Baker, between about 5,000 feet and 7,000 feet, are known as Kwelshán, meaning "shooting place," referring to the act of going hunting up on the slopes. Baker as a whole, and specifically, to the glacier-covered summit above 7,000 feet. The name Kweq' Smánit, meaning "white mountain," refers to Mt. The Nooksack, who live in the closest proximity to the north face of the mountain, have multiple names for different areas of the mountain. Mount Baker is known to the several Indigenous peoples surrounding the mountain by different names. The explorer George Vancouver later named the mountain for 3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker of HMS Discovery, who saw it on April 30, 1792. Indigenous peoples have known the mountain for thousands of years, but the first written record of the mountain is from Spanish explorer Gonzalo Lopez de Haro, who mapped it in 1790 as Gran Montaña del Carmelo. Located in the Mount Baker Wilderness, it is visible from much of Greater Victoria, Nanaimo, and Greater Vancouver in British Columbia, and to the south, from Seattle (and on clear days Tacoma) in Washington. Mount Baker is the third-highest mountain in Washington and the fifth-highest in the Cascade Range, if Little Tahoma Peak, a subpeak of Mount Rainier, and Shastina, a subpeak of Mount Shasta, are not counted. It is also one of the snowiest places in the world in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located 9 mi (14.5 km) to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season-1,140 in (29 m 95 ft). Older volcanic edifices have mostly eroded away due to glaciation.Īfter Mount Rainier, Mount Baker has the heaviest glacier cover of the Cascade Range volcanoes the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker, 0.43 cu mi (1.79 km 3) is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. ![]() While volcanism has persisted here for some 1.5 million years, the current volcanic cone is likely no more than 140,000 years old, and possibly no older than 80–90,000 years. About 30 miles (48 km) due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County, Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount St. Mount Baker ( Nooksack: Kweq' Smánit Lushootseed: təqʷubəʔ), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781 ft (3,286 m) active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Sherman Crater is the deep depression south of the summit. 1868 by Edmund Coleman, John Tennant, Thomas Stratton and David Ogilvy
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