My grandmother lived in Surrey British Columbia when I was a boy and I would always go for walks in the parks and seeing Mt Baker in the distance was so majestic as I had never seen a volcano before and I think that started my love for geology 🌋
I lived in Abbotsford my first 10 years of life, at our last house there was a big window looking out across the field to the airport, and Mt Baker centered over it as a perfect backdrop. Growing up and being able to see mountains in every direction, with that gorgeous volcano to tie it in was a treat, I'm glad to know im not the only geology enthusiast who was inspired by her beauty
Surrey. Mt. Baker was like a sentinel on the horizon. Used to walk from Hawthorn park down Bon Accord creek, Green Timbers too. One time I even biked out to Whiterock.
I hiked to the top of Mt' Baker twice. The second time I went past the Sherman Crater which is actively venting. It had a vortex design in the glacier material that led to the vent hole. It is amazing to hear the sound created by the expelled gasses .
Thanks for the coverage of our local volcano! Not a huge deal, but some of the stock footage (at 4:18 for example) is of Mt Shuksan, which is very much not a volcano, despite being close to Baker. It's geologic history is just as interesting though if you wanted to cover it. ;)
I've climbed both Baker and Shuksan and I didn't see this error until you pointed it out. It's obvious now that I look at it, but still it was a good catch.
Grew up with a view of Baker directly from my house, it would often turn pink at sunset from the reflection off all the snow on the summit. From nearby parts of the San Juan islands its even more picturesque. Its gotta be one of the prettier volcanoes on the planet, neither too craggy nor too symmetrical, with brilliant white glaciers surrounded with thick evergreen forest, and visible from all the way to the water. It also has a very high topographic prominence. Super underrated region.
The ski lodge up there has photos of the three story building being buried all the way up to the rooftop. Even during normal years it can get some pretty absurd amounts of snow.
@@StuffandThings_ There's many similar pictures from the Mammoth Mountain ski area. The high Sierra Nevada mountain range is a close second to Mount Baker when it comes to snowfall records.
@@Ta2dwitetrash They used metric, so he's centimetering his way there...They have centimeter worms too instead of inch worms...it just doesn't have the same ring to it does it?
Nice to see a feature on Baker. I grew up and live in Vancouver and ever since I was young and my Dad pointed it out, I was fascinated by the eruption/lahar potential at Sumas Prairie. With it's subsequent effect on the Fraser River municipal infrastructure downstream. It's not a risk I see mentioned at all, unlike with the alarms and public hazard notifications for Rainier at Orting. Canada takes it's volcano risks largely for granted.
The USGS hazard map cuts off at the Canadian border, so you cannot see the extension of the lahar flows and fiture hazard across Sumas Prairie to the Fraser River.
@@nigelcornwell2227 the 2021 Sumas Flood recreated the old Sumas Lake from the Nooksack and Chilliwack Rivers, so any lahar will likely spread out across the Prairie depending on dike containment.
@@nigelcornwell2227 the Canadians need to do a better job of geological hazard mapping, I'll admit. There were some fault lines discovered in the vicinity of Blaine, WA, within the Bellingham forearc basin; a 2012 paper by Kelsey, Sherrod, Blakely, and Haugerud, "Holocene faulting in the Bellingham forearc basin: Upper-plate deformation at the northern end of the Cascadia subduction zone" describes the potential earthquake hazard these faults pose. The paper alludes to the possibility of Holocene faults on the Canadian side of the border. A 2015 technical report by Clague, Stead, Francioni and Westin, "Geology of Mount Burnaby," discusses the potential existence of a east-west fault line along Burrard Inlet, albeit stating that evidence of Holocene movements has not been found, but that the absence of evidence cannot be used to rule out potential Holocene activity, either. FYI: I'm not a geologist. I became fascinated in the lack of fault mapping in Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, especially in light of the dense population that would be at-risk in a major earthquake. The presence of unreinforced masonry buildings (URMs) in Vancouver's Gastown, Chinatown, and Downtown Eastside (and surrounding areas) places these areas at a particularly-high risk of earthquake damage and casualties, enough so that the proximity of a hypothesized fault in the Vancouver Harbour/Burrard Inlet area needs to be investigated much more closely, using the latest technology. If such a fault were active, and if it were to rupture right now, I fear that damage would be cataclysmic, particularly in the Downtown Eastside. There's also the fact that some earthquake-resistant buildings in Vancouver are designed to withstand an earthquake, but only to a life-preservation level, meaning that they could be structurally-unsound in the aftermath of a major earthquake and therefore condemned; those residing in buildings that are earthquake-resistant only for life-preservation could be rendered homeless.
I love all of this Washington State content! Before moving from Whidbey Island to Wenatchee, we enjoyed a beautiful view of Mt. Baker from our house in Oak Harbor on clear days.
Mt. Baker steams almost every day. When I lived in Bellingham I would look at the mountain every morning on the way to work and there was almost always steam streaming up a couple hundred feet....
I live in Bellingham, just at the foothills of Baker. It occasionally off-gases which is a pretty cool sight but also a humbling reminder that it could go off at some point in our lifetime.
I can see mt rainier from a block away from my house. Seeing mt baker is almost as beautiful and is totally worth the visit. I didn't know it's history before today either! Thank you!
That hazard map stops at the border, but in the Lower Mainland of BC we know that whatever comes down the Nooksack / Sumas watershed is coming here too; any blockage will flood the Sumas prairie northwards to the Fraser River. In fall 2021, the huge rainstorm did just that, water flowing south to north from the Nooksack to the dyked basin of what was once Sumas Lake, and soon half the Fraser Valley was under water, as pumps got overwhelmed and levees broke. That was just water, not a volcanic lahar, so hopefully our own emergency planners are considering this as they try to rebuild and enhance what failed in 2021.
I remember 1975 though I was just a kid, the worry about Baker was real for a while but people sort of forgot about it when Mt. St. Helens decided to grab the limelight. (I grew up in one of Rainier's likely lahar zones...)
Lived in Smokey Pt. area, clear views of all the North Cascade biggies- Three Sisters, Glacier Peak, Pilchuck (ski area lights clearly visible), Baker, on a clear day Rainier to the SSE, and the Olympics. I saw the mid-70's increased steam venting on Baker, and there were several clear nights you could see a distinct red glow reflecting off the bottom of the steam vent clouds. Baker regularly gets 100+ FEET of snowfall annually. A couple miles east is a ridge of sandstone with both marine and plant fossils all through it.
I always enjoy the view of Mt. Baker during ferry boat rides from Anacortes. Thank you for the video. I had no idea it had been active in recent (1800s) years.
I live 30 miles from this beast and camp up there all the time Very beautiful and tons of andesite/basalt, the rock formations are insane So glad to live here
The next VEI-7 in the Cascade arc (if that ever happens before the arc dies when the spreading ridge subducts) will probably happen at the Mt Baker volcanic field. It's a seriously dangerous area.
I myself feel fortunate to be able to enjoy the view of Mt. Baker every day (weather permitting), but from a fairly safe distance. I can recall seeing degassing several times. To the point that I have lost count
Sherman crater seems to be horizontal. Is that preventing or diminishing the funneling of water down into the throat of mount baker. No water no steam build up no steam pressure to create an eruption. I was on the back side of mount baker at the hot tub in 1975. Only one other car parked in the massive parking lot. Soon my family was trying not to burn in the crazy hot spring water. The birthday suit wearing people chatting with my family and my cousin from Lummi Island. My cousin said you look so familiar. Ever been to lummi Island. Yes last summer I rented a cabin behind the post office. That explains it. I did not recognize you without your clothes. I am the Lummi Island post master. We started back to our car only to be passed by several preteens running full speed up the hill. Soon we saw their parents. Birthday suits up there. They started running to catch them. Then a ranger pulled up. Get out of here. There is a volcanic eruption alert he went chasing the others. Thank you for explaining the black buttes I always wondered if they were thrust up like mount St Helen's dry eruption events. It would still be interesting to look at the cross slides to see if they like mount st Helen's have no room for water or steam.
So if the Baker eruption was caused by the Juan De Luca plate subducting, if the Cascadia Subduction zone rips from end to end will that decrease volcanic activity along the Rockies where that plate is under or pressuring volcanos?
The rate of subduction along the fault which causes the sea floor uplift, and eventually earthquakes, probably remains mostly unchanged given the total mass of the plate behind the fault zone. The curl in the upper plate might slow down the subducting plate a little, but I doubt that it's to any significant degree.
Back in the 1970-1974 period I lived in a house at the north end of Lake Watcom. We had a view of the mountain. I can testify that there were no eruptions during that time.
Hey cool video, I’ve lived in Whatcom county my whole life and it’s rad to see a video about my backyard. One thing though, around 1:16 and 4:15 was not Mount Baker, it was Mount Shuksan, very different mountains, Shuksan is not a volcano.
My one hiking trip on the west coast was to Mount Baker and Mount Rainier. Personally, I found Baker to be the more interesting hike, but that's just my personal view.
The area around Mount Baker is a virtual outdoor paradise on an equal level with Mount Rainier National Park. It's a shame knowing that these places are only temporary, as an eruption at least as big as Mt St Helens' in 1980 could easily destroy everything.
You showed pictures of shuksan instead of baker a couple times likely because it's the Mt baker ski area backdrop. At roughly 1500~ lower elevation than mt baker, and highly eroded northwestern face, could shuckson be a remnant of volcanic activity?
I live maybe 10 miles or less to the south of where if a lahar hit it stopped. I had no idea it would go all the way to La Conner or as far south of there down the I5 corridor. Hopefully this never happens but if it does between that and a sumanmi Im in a safe area. The only thing that might get me is a large enough earth quake that would bring the roof down on me. This is a beautiful area and between all the other disasters that are happening I hope it never happens of if it does its so far into the future they will be able to warn people for weeks ahead of time and maybe know how to move it or something..
You can drive right up to one of the Lahars on the east side of the mountain.. the river cuts through it.. huge trees burried in there too. Baker hot dpring is on the east flank above the lake.. water was barely warm and a bare trickle in august many years ago, and had an old swampy sulfur smell.. Not pleasant. Rough road but a subaru can make it. Maybe someone can give more recent details.
so much of the real estate in my town centres around whether you can see Mt Baker. people have their houses constructed to be able to see it from their breakfast table
@@davidcranstone9044 pravda (online, Russian newspaper) compares the curves to other earthquakes and tests and the test from Pakistan looks just like the Iranian 'earthquake'.
Question about caldera's: Do these creation event's happen all at once, or is it a gradual subsidence over long periods? I've never heard any thing about the actual creation of caldera's. Only what causes them and how they came to be. I know it's not like snapping your fingers, but speaking in a geological time frame,...?
Many calders collapses do actually occur as a single catastrophic event, when a major eruption, and/or explosive degassing of the magma in the vent extending right down to the magma chamber, leaves the magma chamber unable to support the weight of the overlying mountain so the whole thing collapses inwards.. And if large amounts of water, from the sea or a caldera lake from a previous collapse, get into the collapsing mass, there is an even bigger explosion as it flashes over into steam - that is what happened at Krakatoa.
Great video! Baker is the closest volcano to where I live, and I see it on most days. However I want to bring to your attention that the mountain shown at 4:15 is NOT Mt Baker, that is Mt Shuksan, a non-volcanic mountain located only a few miles away.
Baker will never produce a VEI 8 eruption, to get a VEI 8 eruption you need a truly tremendous volume of magma, about 1,000 cubic kilometers. That figure alone is larger than the entire output of Mt. Baker and it's ancestors combined. The production rate of magma is just not high enough to sustain a potential VEI 8, and this goes with all the Cascade Volcanic Arc volcanoes (the chain Baker belongs to). The largest the cascades seem to go is VEI 7, and even then it's exceptionally rare, occuring only a few times in the last few million years at several.
🙄 great…I moved from Montana, where as a kid I experienced the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake ~ to Whatcom County w/in 50 miles Mnt. Baker ~ from the frying pan into the fire…what else is new 😑
You keep showing pictures of Mt Shuksan while talking about Mt Baker. Mt Shuksan is a nearby uplift mountain and is not at all volcanic!! Get your story straight!!
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My grandmother lived in Surrey British Columbia when I was a boy and I would always go for walks in the parks and seeing Mt Baker in the distance was so majestic as I had never seen a volcano before and I think that started my love for geology 🌋
Grew up in Redmond WA with a view of the Cascades to the East. I had to climb a tree to look North to Baker or South to Rainier.
I lived in Abbotsford my first 10 years of life, at our last house there was a big window looking out across the field to the airport, and Mt Baker centered over it as a perfect backdrop. Growing up and being able to see mountains in every direction, with that gorgeous volcano to tie it in was a treat, I'm glad to know im not the only geology enthusiast who was inspired by her beauty
Surrey. Mt. Baker was like a sentinel on the horizon. Used to walk from Hawthorn park down Bon Accord creek, Green Timbers too. One time I even biked out to Whiterock.
Grew up in Abbotsford, Canada where we have the best views of Baker from any city. Its the most beautiful mountain on Earth.
I hiked to the top of Mt' Baker twice. The second time I went past the Sherman Crater which is actively venting. It had a vortex design in the glacier material that led to the vent hole. It is amazing to hear the sound created by the expelled gasses .
Thanks for the coverage of our local volcano! Not a huge deal, but some of the stock footage (at 4:18 for example) is of Mt Shuksan, which is very much not a volcano, despite being close to Baker. It's geologic history is just as interesting though if you wanted to cover it. ;)
I understood SHUKSAN to be constructed of greenstone
@@outsider2222 Yep! Greenschist specifically. th-cam.com/video/NT_qeZvgr9k/w-d-xo.html
Shuksan was a head scratcher. One of the most photographed mountains in the world.
I've climbed both Baker and Shuksan and I didn't see this error until you pointed it out. It's obvious now that I look at it, but still it was a good catch.
Came here to say this!
At 4:20 you use arrows pointing to the neighbor Mt. Shukson though discussing Baker.
I'm also loving the PNW content! Cheers from Anacortes!
Thank you from Bellingham, WA. My favorite volcano. ♥️
Get some Coconut Kenny’s for me.
@@canadiangemstones7636King Mahalo Sandwich!
Grew up with a view of Baker directly from my house, it would often turn pink at sunset from the reflection off all the snow on the summit. From nearby parts of the San Juan islands its even more picturesque. Its gotta be one of the prettier volcanoes on the planet, neither too craggy nor too symmetrical, with brilliant white glaciers surrounded with thick evergreen forest, and visible from all the way to the water. It also has a very high topographic prominence. Super underrated region.
I really enjoyed this format. A bit of a deep dive into one particular volcano and some of the history surrounding it. Hope to see more like this
Mount Baker holds the world record for the most snowfall in a single season at 95 feet.
Yup!
The ski lodge up there has photos of the three story building being buried all the way up to the rooftop. Even during normal years it can get some pretty absurd amounts of snow.
Ahh, the winter of 1996,1997. Crazy snow year in Washington.
@@StuffandThings_ There's many similar pictures from the Mammoth Mountain ski area. The high Sierra Nevada mountain range is a close second to Mount Baker when it comes to snowfall records.
@@aredditor4272- That sort of snowfall in the Sierras is not as common as it is in the North Cascades.
Thank you for discussing Mt Baker. I can see it from Vancouver Island and have been very curious about it.
Inching your way there...
@@Ta2dwitetrash They used metric, so he's centimetering his way there...They have centimeter worms too instead of inch worms...it just doesn't have the same ring to it does it?
Nice to see a feature on Baker. I grew up and live in Vancouver and ever since I was young and my Dad pointed it out, I was fascinated by the eruption/lahar potential at Sumas Prairie. With it's subsequent effect on the Fraser River municipal infrastructure downstream. It's not a risk I see mentioned at all, unlike with the alarms and public hazard notifications for Rainier at Orting. Canada takes it's volcano risks largely for granted.
The USGS hazard map cuts off at the Canadian border, so you cannot see the extension of the lahar flows and fiture hazard across Sumas Prairie to the Fraser River.
@@nigelcornwell2227 the 2021 Sumas Flood recreated the old Sumas Lake from the Nooksack and Chilliwack Rivers, so any lahar will likely spread out across the Prairie depending on dike containment.
@@nigelcornwell2227 the Canadians need to do a better job of geological hazard mapping, I'll admit. There were some fault lines discovered in the vicinity of Blaine, WA, within the Bellingham forearc basin; a 2012 paper by Kelsey, Sherrod, Blakely, and Haugerud, "Holocene faulting in the Bellingham forearc basin: Upper-plate deformation at the northern end of the Cascadia subduction zone" describes the potential earthquake hazard these faults pose.
The paper alludes to the possibility of Holocene faults on the Canadian side of the border. A 2015 technical report by Clague, Stead, Francioni and Westin, "Geology of Mount Burnaby," discusses the potential existence of a east-west fault line along Burrard Inlet, albeit stating that evidence of Holocene movements has not been found, but that the absence of evidence cannot be used to rule out potential Holocene activity, either.
FYI: I'm not a geologist. I became fascinated in the lack of fault mapping in Metro Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, especially in light of the dense population that would be at-risk in a major earthquake. The presence of unreinforced masonry buildings (URMs) in Vancouver's Gastown, Chinatown, and Downtown Eastside (and surrounding areas) places these areas at a particularly-high risk of earthquake damage and casualties, enough so that the proximity of a hypothesized fault in the Vancouver Harbour/Burrard Inlet area needs to be investigated much more closely, using the latest technology. If such a fault were active, and if it were to rupture right now, I fear that damage would be cataclysmic, particularly in the Downtown Eastside. There's also the fact that some earthquake-resistant buildings in Vancouver are designed to withstand an earthquake, but only to a life-preservation level, meaning that they could be structurally-unsound in the aftermath of a major earthquake and therefore condemned; those residing in buildings that are earthquake-resistant only for life-preservation could be rendered homeless.
A relatively common street name in Metro Vancouver is "Bakerview" for how prominent the mountain is in our eastern horizon.
Great video!
I love all of this Washington State content! Before moving from Whidbey Island to Wenatchee, we enjoyed a beautiful view of Mt. Baker from our house in Oak Harbor on clear days.
Loved skiing at Mt. Baker when I was little. Haven’t been back in forever
I skied Mt. Baker once back in 1988 and I remember that trip fondly. It was an adventure just driving up there.
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Happy you found time to renew this one!
I call it, my back yard. lol
I live less than 20 miles away from Mt Baker.
Mt. Baker steams almost every day. When I lived in Bellingham I would look at the mountain every morning on the way to work and there was almost always steam streaming up a couple hundred feet....
I love to learn about Cascade Activity. Thank you for your hard work!
I live in Bellingham, just at the foothills of Baker. It occasionally off-gases which is a pretty cool sight but also a humbling reminder that it could go off at some point in our lifetime.
Thanks as always, Geology Hub,
I can see mt rainier from a block away from my house. Seeing mt baker is almost as beautiful and is totally worth the visit. I didn't know it's history before today either! Thank you!
been waiting for this one, since I can see it from my window.
Will Nick Zentner be able to use this when he goes Cascade Formation A-Z this winter. Any chance of working with him on this?
My Baker is beautiful to see. Occasionally has steam rising. It is also has great skiing.
That hazard map stops at the border, but in the Lower Mainland of BC we know that whatever comes down the Nooksack / Sumas watershed is coming here too; any blockage will flood the Sumas prairie northwards to the Fraser River. In fall 2021, the huge rainstorm did just that, water flowing south to north from the Nooksack to the dyked basin of what was once Sumas Lake, and soon half the Fraser Valley was under water, as pumps got overwhelmed and levees broke. That was just water, not a volcanic lahar, so hopefully our own emergency planners are considering this as they try to rebuild and enhance what failed in 2021.
On a clear day, I can see Mount Baker from my window in Coquitlam BC. Very striking.
Grew up in Victoria BC always an awesome site to see , , Now I’m in Vancouver, Surrey BC and it much And even better views ,
My other favorite channel is Mount Baker mining and metals. It’s almost like a collab. Cheers geo hub!
I remember 1975 though I was just a kid, the worry about Baker was real for a while but people sort of forgot about it when Mt. St. Helens decided to grab the limelight. (I grew up in one of Rainier's likely lahar zones...)
Resident of New Westminster, love taking photos of Baker!
Lived in Smokey Pt. area, clear views of all the North Cascade biggies- Three Sisters, Glacier Peak, Pilchuck (ski area lights clearly visible), Baker, on a clear day Rainier to the SSE, and the Olympics. I saw the mid-70's increased steam venting on Baker, and there were several clear nights you could see a distinct red glow reflecting off the bottom of the steam vent clouds. Baker regularly gets 100+ FEET of snowfall annually. A couple miles east is a ridge of sandstone with both marine and plant fossils all through it.
I always enjoy the view of Mt. Baker during ferry boat rides from Anacortes. Thank you for the video. I had no idea it had been active in recent (1800s) years.
thanks for the video
Dacitic... Where have I seen that before .... Pinatubo... Damn, I sure hope Baker doesn't go 1991.
I live 30 miles from this beast and camp up there all the time
Very beautiful and tons of andesite/basalt, the rock formations are insane
So glad to live here
Used to go to baker every year for snowboarding. Awesome mountain
The next VEI-7 in the Cascade arc (if that ever happens before the arc dies when the spreading ridge subducts) will probably happen at the Mt Baker volcanic field. It's a seriously dangerous area.
I myself feel fortunate to be able to enjoy the view of Mt. Baker every day (weather permitting), but from a fairly safe distance.
I can recall seeing degassing several times. To the point that I have lost count
same
Interesting info. I'm 26miles from Mt Baker. I'm in one of the yellow zones on the map.
when i lived in port coquitlam we could see steam from baker from time to time
That's my Volcano!
Sherman crater seems to be horizontal. Is that preventing or diminishing the funneling of water down into the throat of mount baker. No water no steam build up no steam pressure to create an eruption. I was on the back side of mount baker at the hot tub in 1975. Only one other car parked in the massive parking lot. Soon my family was trying not to burn in the crazy hot spring water. The birthday suit wearing people chatting with my family and my cousin from Lummi Island. My cousin said you look so familiar. Ever been to lummi Island. Yes last summer I rented a cabin behind the post office. That explains it. I did not recognize you without your clothes. I am the Lummi Island post master. We started back to our car only to be passed by several preteens running full speed up the hill. Soon we saw their parents. Birthday suits up there. They started running to catch them. Then a ranger pulled up. Get out of here. There is a volcanic eruption alert he went chasing the others. Thank you for explaining the black buttes I always wondered if they were thrust up like mount St Helen's dry eruption events. It would still be interesting to look at the cross slides to see if they like mount st Helen's have no room for water or steam.
I was up at Sherman Crater this August. Absolutely beautiful, and fumaroles aplenty.
How did they smell?
Could you perhaps do a video(if a 90 second video) of all the different types of volcanic rock, and explain the differences between them?
You showed video of Mount Shuksan a couple times while referring to Baker which would be confusing to the viewer.
I was skiing Mt. Baker (actually Mt. Shuksan) in 1975 and you could see outgassing plumes on Baker from the higher points of the ski area.
On cold and clear days, we can sometimes see the Sherman Crater's steam plume.
I live in Port Townsend, WA - Baker dominates the skyline to the northeast of our town.
Thanks.
1:15 and 4:20, this is Mt Shuksan, not Baker(Kulshan). Shuksan is nonvolcanic.
Hi! I corrected him too! I’ve photographed Shuksan for over twenty years.
Can you cover the recent earthquake swarm around Mount Adams. USGS added additional monitoring equipment.
He covered that a couple days ago. Se his channel
Don't forget Canada eh. Lots of us here. 😊
So if the Baker eruption was caused by the Juan De Luca plate subducting, if the Cascadia Subduction zone rips from end to end will that decrease volcanic activity along the Rockies where that plate is under or pressuring volcanos?
The rate of subduction along the fault which causes the sea floor uplift, and eventually earthquakes, probably remains mostly unchanged given the total mass of the plate behind the fault zone. The curl in the upper plate might slow down the subducting plate a little, but I doubt that it's to any significant degree.
@@stargazer5784 ty
Back in the 1970-1974 period I lived in a house at the north end of Lake Watcom. We had a view of the mountain. I can testify that there were no eruptions during that time.
Hey cool video, I’ve lived in Whatcom county my whole life and it’s rad to see a video about my backyard. One thing though, around 1:16 and 4:15 was not Mount Baker, it was Mount Shuksan, very different mountains, Shuksan is not a volcano.
I still laugh every time I hear people make this frequent mistake!
Some people even use photos of Shuksan talking about Switzerland.
You can see from the first view that there used to be 2 peaks on baker.
We all remember the steam pumps in the 70's occasionally it still does.
That lahar could probably be enough cement to build another Hoover Dam in a larger size and thickness…😮
My one hiking trip on the west coast was to Mount Baker and Mount Rainier. Personally, I found Baker to be the more interesting hike, but that's just my personal view.
Been Snowmobiling on Mt Baker for 30+years, from schreiber meadows, and there's always, stream plume coming from the top.
Awesome video. Would you consider doing something similar for Mt. Hood in Oregon? If you have already done one, my apologies.
In 1989 I fought forest fires on Mt. Baker & Mt. Hood in Oregon as part of the U.S. Army 9th Infantry Division
The area around Mount Baker is a virtual outdoor paradise on an equal level with Mount Rainier National Park. It's a shame knowing that these places are only temporary, as an eruption at least as big as Mt St Helens' in 1980 could easily destroy everything.
You showed pictures of shuksan instead of baker a couple times likely because it's the Mt baker ski area backdrop. At roughly 1500~ lower elevation than mt baker, and highly eroded northwestern face, could shuckson be a remnant of volcanic activity?
Shuksan is nonvolcanic, comprised of greenschist.
Uh, the photo at 1:18 is of Shuksan, not Mount Baker! 😢. Shuksan is the most photogenic mountain in Washington State. It’s not a volcano.
Mt Shuksan is shown twice in this video labeled as Mt Baker.
I live maybe 10 miles or less to the south of where if a lahar hit it stopped. I had no idea it would go all the way to La Conner or as far south of there down the I5 corridor. Hopefully this never happens but if it does between that and a sumanmi Im in a safe area. The only thing that might get me is a large enough earth quake that would bring the roof down on me. This is a beautiful area and between all the other disasters that are happening I hope it never happens of if it does its so far into the future they will be able to warn people for weeks ahead of time and maybe know how to move it or something..
Mt Baker is BEAUTIFUL. Id love to live in a cabin off the mountain.
Can we get a full vid on a random cinder cone like Bessie butte in Oregon?
Baker was smoking in the mid 70's. I also remember Lassen doing the same thing in the late 60's.
Mount Baker region has some of the most beautiful hiking on planet earth
Another day, another person who should know better thinking Mt. Shuksan is Mt. Baker 😪
Would you mind editing and rereleasing the video, kindly?
Any way to make a video or comment on Idaho’s Crater Rings near I84 in Sebree ! Always been curious about them
You can drive right up to one of the Lahars on the east side of the mountain.. the river cuts through it.. huge trees burried in there too. Baker hot dpring is on the east flank above the lake.. water was barely warm and a bare trickle in august many years ago, and had an old swampy sulfur smell..
Not pleasant. Rough road but a subaru can make it. Maybe someone can give more recent details.
I see her almost every day
My explosive backyard.
Could you please make video about Trolladyngja shield volcano near Askja. As there seems to be strange inflation on InSAR there
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I wonder if the cascadia megathrust quake in 1700 generated more "fuel" for the cascades, hence why they were more active in the 1800s and before.
so much of the real estate in my town centres around whether you can see Mt Baker. people have their houses constructed to be able to see it from their breakfast table
Could you take a look at the "signature" of the Iranian earthquake? from a geological point of view ;-)
Yes, please do. Unless you have already done so in reply to the requests in yesterday's comments - I haven't looked at those yet tonight.
@@davidcranstone9044 pravda (online, Russian newspaper) compares the curves to other earthquakes and tests and the test from Pakistan looks just like the Iranian 'earthquake'.
@GeologyHub
Where is closed captions?
I can see Mt Baker out my windows. Not in the Lahar Zone but I have friends and family who are.
Where have I seen that mountain before 🤔
Question about caldera's: Do these creation event's happen all at once, or is it a gradual subsidence over long periods? I've never heard any thing about the actual creation of caldera's. Only what causes them and how they came to be. I know it's not like snapping your fingers, but speaking in a geological time frame,...?
Many calders collapses do actually occur as a single catastrophic event, when a major eruption, and/or explosive degassing of the magma in the vent extending right down to the magma chamber, leaves the magma chamber unable to support the weight of the overlying mountain so the whole thing collapses inwards.. And if large amounts of water, from the sea or a caldera lake from a previous collapse, get into the collapsing mass, there is an even bigger explosion as it flashes over into steam - that is what happened at Krakatoa.
When I was a kid I thought it was called Mount Bacon
Great video! Baker is the closest volcano to where I live, and I see it on most days.
However I want to bring to your attention that the mountain shown at 4:15 is NOT Mt Baker, that is Mt Shuksan, a non-volcanic mountain located only a few miles away.
The mountain used to steam less than twenty years ago
Hello, I love your videos, I especially enjoy videos about the Cascades. but why did you turn off the subtitles on this video????
What would happen if it were to erupt at a VE-8 would it affect Minnesota?
Baker will never produce a VEI 8 eruption, to get a VEI 8 eruption you need a truly tremendous volume of magma, about 1,000 cubic kilometers. That figure alone is larger than the entire output of Mt. Baker and it's ancestors combined. The production rate of magma is just not high enough to sustain a potential VEI 8, and this goes with all the Cascade Volcanic Arc volcanoes (the chain Baker belongs to). The largest the cascades seem to go is VEI 7, and even then it's exceptionally rare, occuring only a few times in the last few million years at several.
🙄 great…I moved from Montana, where as a kid I experienced the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake ~ to Whatcom County w/in 50 miles Mnt. Baker ~ from the frying pan into the fire…what else is new 😑
We lived in Acme for 16 years
Breakfast at the Acme diner is nice.
damn, and i live in Peace Valley 💀
my name is on that mountain, so it must be mine.
i can see it from my apartment :D
You keep showing pictures of Mt Shuksan while talking about Mt Baker. Mt Shuksan is a nearby uplift mountain and is not at all volcanic!! Get your story straight!!
That will likely be Whyyyyyyyyy
Jason @mbmm is profiting off the gold viens.
Kulas Harbors
more boom.
Ward Locks
Hey Kip hows Lawfawnduh
At 1:20 you describe what an actual active volcano is like... FYI