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Mount Baker Facts
Elevation: 10,781 feet (3286 m)
Prominence: 8,812 feet (2686 m)
Coordinates: 48.777343, -121.813201
Last Eruption: 7 Sept - 27 Nov 1880
Volcano Type: Strato Volcano
Nearest City: Bellingham, WA
Range: Mount Baker is part of the
Cascade Volcanic Arc
Summits:
First Climbed: 1868 by E. Coleman, J. Tennant, T. Stratton and D. Ogilvy
Access to Summit: snow (ice) climb
Age: 140,000 year old
Native Name: Koma Kulshan
Koma Kulshan
Koma Kulshan, or just Kulsha is in the Nooksack language, which is a Salishan family language. The explorer George Vancouver renamed the mountain for 3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker of HMS Discovery, who saw it on April 30, 1792.
Location and Age
Mount Baker is in the
Cascade Volcanic Arc and in the
North Cascades of Washington state. Baker is the second most thermally active crater in the Cascade range after Mount Saint Helens.
Due to not being eroded away from glaciation like older volcanoes, Baker is the youngest volcano in Mount Baker volcanic field, likely being no more than 140,000 years old and possibly as young as 90,000 year old.
Mount Baker
Mount Baker is a good example of am
andesitic glaciated
stratovolcano.
Mt. Baker is the third-highest mountain in Washington and the fifth-highest in the Cascade Range, if the subpeaks of Mount Rainier, and Mount Shasta are not counted.
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