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- On the final two days of our road trip pro skier and Mt. Baker local Zack Giffin shows us around Mt. Baker in hunt of fresh powder, big lines and Baker's famous cliffs.
If you're not familiar with Mt. Baker, located in Northern Washington, it is a powderhound mecca. The ski area averages the most annual snowfall, 641 inches, in the entire world and holds the record for most snowfall in a single season, 1,140 inches in the '98-'99 season. Guests can benefit from the Baker Bus, transportation provided throughout the Whatcom County to Mt. Baker.
The Good Life Series:
Episode 1: Mt. Hood Meadows
• Mt. Hood Meadows Powde...
Episode 2: Crystal Mountain
• Deep Powder at Crystal...
Episode 3: Stevens Pass
• Deepest day of the yea...
Episode 4: Mt. Baker
• Zack Giffin Tears Up M...
For more information on the Good Life and realtime snow reports check out: www.onthesnow.com/
i have never seen someone ski that hard and every move is controlled. amazing.
Almost 8 years later, this is still a great video. Still no good cell service, still the best mtn in western wa.
Zach is awesome I think he is so talented in everything he does.
yeah actually, this was all shot on the east coast. So head over there, also people over there are gaper friendly.
...no?
East coast? This is the west coast
@@monkeyahh1343 Theyre making a joke about trying to keep people off the west and on the east
He's joking guys come on
It only rains at baker. Don’t go
Definitely one of the best places I've ever rode! Scenery is incredible.
I've skied at baker for 15 years, I'll be loyal to it for the rest of my life. It's my home, I grew up on the slopes there
Genghis Wayne Baker really is one hell of a place... Washington just needs higher elevation resorts asap.
same here I’ve grown up skiing there
I just started skiing 3 years ago here although i have been hiking and snowshoeing up there since i was born.
"The Good Life" series is fantastic. I've grown up in the PNW, skiing for most of those years, and y'all have captured the essence of good PNW skiing while teaching me new beta about skiing in my regional backyard! I'll be coming back to these in a couple months for inspiration.
I love wake n bakery! Such an amazing place up there @ Mt Baker
When Baker is deep, it's amazing, but it's coastal so expect coastal concrete & rain. ☔️☁️ 🌧 ⛈ 🌩 🌨❄️
Glad the weather was on your guys' side during this. I was there when Stevens got dumped last Dec., and am currently sitting in Kuwait, daydreaming about snow and the PNW, stoked in seeing you guys capture it in the beautiful way that it deserves. Much appreciation from halfway across the world.
6 years after my first comment this is still amazing I need to go here
If this series doesn't make you want to go skiing, you have no soul
blakeharmon1 agreed can’t wait for the pow
or snowboarding
@Jaime Armani Get out of here peasant.
@@aaronlloyd6554 no that’s dumb
@@thelittleewokboss9929 you go ahead and hop on you're French fries and go down the little hill lol. I'm chillin in my popsicle stick
I grew up skiing at Mt. Baker. Every weekend! Really miss those times. Spring skiing in shorts and tee shirt should not be missed if you have an opportunity.
What a great place to grow up skiing!
Thanks Chris! It was a great trip trip and we hit it perfectly. Couldn't have done it without the locals though. They killed it.
I would give up all my presents just to ski here for one day
Listen. To all the people in the comments saying it’s not real or it sucks, don’t listen to them. I am a local and have grown up skiing there. Baker is my home and it is exactly as sick as they say it is if not more awesome. If your not gnarly enough to handle the heavy soft pow then don’t come here, if that’s not your cup of tea. The people there are so nice and there is so much to explore and so many runs or side/backcountry to shred. Plus their adding a park this year! Check it out it’s awesome.
I just peed my pants...just found out I'm going to move 1 hour from this place!!!! My son is gonna love this place. Fuck Whistler...I'm skiing here.
98 99 - I was lucky enough to be there for that one. After closing for 3 days we herd they were opening and I was on the way to Whistler from Mt Hood. Drove up in a 2 wheel drive truck - (I grew up in WV so it was no problem making it up) One of the most amazing places I have ever been and can't wait to go back with my wife and kids.
This series was amazing.
Hiking up to the top of the actual mount baker and boarding down is so epic
Love MT Baker!!
I was up at Mt. Baker this weekend!!!! Now I'm back home in Seattle!!!!
Really enjoyed this series, well done guys.
Awesome series. Man I miss it up there
I just stumbled onto these and watched Crystal, Stevens and Baker: great turns, great footage (the RC heli is amazing!) - a very accurate portrait of Washington skiing (on a good week!). Thanks!
Baker is the kind of place that leaves a mark on your soul. It was such an amazing place that I went back again the next year. Nothing really compares. However, the people that live there are not welcoming. I mean I get it, you have a treasure and don't want it to be ruined. But that doesn't mean you have to treat travelers like the plague. For such a small town, down to earth place, the people definitely have quite an "attitude" contrary to what this video suggests.
That dude is a good skier.
Great series guys, we'll have to get you up to Canada sometime!
I'm 12 and live Close to mt baker and I love it so much but I've heard so much about terrain and other features in different places and want to visit them so badly
Wow look at Zack go!!!
I live in Lynden. Right next to Baker. I smell your jealousy. Seriously, backcountry Baker is incredible. Glad I live here.
Nailed it! Flat and rainy at Baker. Move along. Why come here when Whistler is only 3 hours away! Go there...PLEASE!!!
This is Shot amazingly well
Hi Zack, my daughter and I watch you on Tiny House. We are amazed at the engineering and design skills you have!!! God has truly given you a gift and it is nice to see you bring smiles, joy and happiness to those in need of completing their Tiny Homes etc. projects. We noticed that you look a bit exhausted around the eyes; dark circles and face looking a bit pale. You are sweating out all your electrolytes and nutrients daily on these projects because they are so physical. The dark circles can be just plain exhaustion with not getting enough rest or you're losing to many vital nutrients to keep up with your demanding career. We understand you are going from state to state, and it can be hard on the body and mind to keep deadlines. Eating healthy can also be very challenging. So, we encourage you to get a full Lab panel to check you vitamin levels including your adrenals. These tests will assure your body is keep the proper levels and numbers are where they need to be to keep up with your demanding job. We also recommend you get on an organic, non-gmo vitamin regiment to assure you stay healthy if you're not on one. Organic non-gmo is the way to go because there are no fillers and additives in them just the nutrients you need. Your young and your viewers like us want to assure you stay healthy for many reasons. I'm sure your wife Alex wants to make sure your around forever since you have just begun a new chapter in your life with her! Stay safe:)
it rains all the time at baker. super warm. heavy snow. no bueno
Ya it's terrible
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on any given powder day if you don't include the backcountry Baker will get skied out in about an hour and a half yes skied out.
Flat and rains can confirm.
I can only dream living in rainy Ireland. Not a decent mountain for a thousand miles. After a day on mount baker there'll be more powder on the bottom of your boots than I'll see in a life time!
awesome!
tiny house dude f'n rips
and yes on the west side of the cascades
only place that i have ever been that comes close to as fun as baker is, lost trail, its on the Montana Idaho border
Went there during a 4 foot snow storm
mt baker is my home mountain
i grew up doing this
What kind of AT binding does his setup have?
Are those the mega or gigawatts he's rockin?
My dads favorite place is crystal mountain
Hi,
What skies does he have?
witch song is that? (2:04 - 4:06)
What song is at 2:05?
Baker is awesome...backcountry is epic...
....of course, they never tell you about the poor Canadian teens that go missing in the backcountry virtually every single season.
Was that my buddy Shalbot at 4:37??!?
excpt the low elevation makes it rain a bunch
Im planning on moving to Seattle next year for work and I was wondering if it s reasonable to drive to this resort?
Owen Coventry I know this commwnt is super late but Mt. Rainer is much closer to seattle.
im going to western so this imma do
Of all the people you found to show you Baker, you found a Coloradan... No offense to him as he seems to love the mountain, but many of us grew up there and learned skiing and snowboarding on Baker. It was our weekend getaway for years.
Seriously. It was also the first place that let us ride these funny looking things called snowboards.
I proudly rocked the Native sticker on my bumper! Then I read an opinion piece in the paper saying how people who think they're special because they are born someplace are arrogant and no better than anybody else. Screw that guy, but then I slept on it, and a week later took the sticker off. I came to think that it's nice to be psyched about where you're from but that it doesn't make you better than anybody else. I ended up putting a Tourist bumper sticker on instead. :-)
@@JonathanSackheim 100% agreed, in the end it doesn't matter who saw it first, you're always gonna look good going fast
Yeah I wen't there once and this place is all talk and no game. No pow, any thing there was left was completely tracked out and shitty. Also it was coastal concrete because it rained every day a week before we got there. It was also super, super flat.
keep spreading your word brother Baker sucks.
Yeah now more than ever right? Fuck man I can't stand the ice.
+tacticalassin yeah I'll be there tomorrow just to make sure it still sucks
+Dave Brady same here that my home town mountain and sure some seasons suck, but most are fresh powder all day long
+iOS iNFiNiTY I'm a local too but you need to spread the word how bad it is. getting alittle crowded.
why the heck do you only put these out in 720p? i'm shure you guys shoot 1080p+ come on now.
But you guys skipped White Pass home to skier Andy Mahre
I live in Bellingham
Come to Schweitzer in Idaho... 7ft in 7 days...
Joey Barklow I am this week
Baker is the snowiest mountain in north america
any mountain is snowy during the winter, but baker is definetly not the snowiest.
Dude it got over 1000 inches in 1999
Efraim132 it set the world record in 1999
David Squire I remember that year well, they had to dig out the chairlift runs as you would literally ski up the mountain while seated in the charlift.
David Squire It's the snowiest mountain in the world, actually
I heart the PNW......
Dis why Washington the best state
A guy from Colorado running his mouth about Baker. You know or you don't. If your lucky enough to find something special make sure you tell the world so they can help you ruin it.
Baker sucks its flat and rains all the time. R.I.P Craig Kelly
just like another little gem we won't speak of. Snoqualmie sucks its small, just don't go there
i live bellingham washington lol
Keep it a special secret!
C'mon man you told the world our secret
Sucks social media and shit like this has blown out a legendary little hole in the wall mountain. Now it’s just covered in gapers who side slip all the good lines. The whole elbow is blown out now, wasn’t like that 10 years ago. Shame.
my mountain...stay away!!!
Theres no describing the jealousy i have for people that live by Baker
The thing that has ruined it this year is thr ski journal running their mouths. I didnt know chairlift lines existed until know.
Mt baker is the best place for shredders
thats cute , mt Baker is the snowiest place in the world... btw Schweitzer is pretty nice tho
MrSwimmingmango I’m going to Schweitzer next week
no WAY they got 10000 feet OF SNOW !!WHAT!! LOL WTF NO WAY! YOU WOULD SINK WTH! LOL
Inches
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It's not called Wake n Bake Coffee, It's called the Wake n Bakery, I went there last week.
keep in mind that this came out in 2012, the name could have changed in that time
+Tyler Sutherland pause the video at 1:28 and read the mug
+nigahiga878 Oh truee, lol I didn't even notice
this vid makes me want to shred the pow pow
Tiny House Nation anyone?
I hope there are no skiers on there when it erupts
domrant lol
But the powder doesn’t look that good
Home sweet home. O how I miss you my home sweet home. Stupid parents had too move............NORTHERN IDAHO JUST ISN'T THE SAME!
Got I love Baker it was kind of a secret stash but now that there’s a video about it..........
Not so special anymore.....
Playback error. Really a locals place. Who can plan a ski Vaca there and ski the back country
lies about the Bellingham being the closest town to the border, I live in a small town called lynden which is less than 4 miles from the border.
Blaine is closer ;) But I love Lynden better lol
Yeah, Baker sucks. Spread the word, bro.
Snow sucks at Baker. Go to Stevens.
Gimme some moguls on ma split board any day.. Trees are for hippies, moguls are so much more sophisticated....know what I mean
Moguls are for pussies that are afraid of powder and backcountry skiing
+Riley Jones I think that might have gone over your head little buddy.
I'm not sure why people like this mountain I hate the snow and this was actually filmed at Crystal baker is terrible don't come
agreed
I think you're lying ;)
Veggie breakfast burrito😂
totally not worth the trip
@@vintagebuttr4009 delete your comment
It's all lies there is no snow here, nothing to see here, move along.