Mount Baker Research Paper

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Mount Baker is located in Whatcom County, Washington. This mountain has the highest summit in the Northern Cascades. It is the only U.S. volcano in the Cascade Range. This type of volcano is stratovolcano, which means a volcano that has different layers of ash and lava, and these lava and ashes bullets up a stratovolcano.

The recent eruption from Mount Baker was 6,700 years ago, it began with side collapse events that resulted in lahars, which means a ruined wet volcano that landed on its side, the volcano moved down in MIddle Fork and Nooksack Rivers as well as down the East, but that ended all over the place.

The chance of eruption of Mount Baker is very high, some people don't know when it will erupt. The elevation of the mountain is 10,781ft (3,286m) Latitude is 48.777°N and Longitude is 121.813°W.

The formation of Mount Baker started with a cone that formed 9,800 years ago in Schriebers
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There is also a ski resort in Mount Baker, the ski area is called Mt. Baker Ski Area (i know very creative name for a ski resort). The snowfall for each year is 641 in (53.4ft, 16.3m). The ski resort opens 9am.-3:30pm. The tickets cost about $24-$62, and rentals cost about $10-$50 it depends in what activity you're on. Mount Baker ski area is known for numerous challenging inbound routes.

Bert Huntoon who started the ski resort, he was a an engineer and a photographer. Later on he built a resort hotel in Heather Meadows. The Mt. Baker club of which Bert Huntoon a member of the club, the club promote the mountain region. The club sponsored The Mt. Baker Marathon in 1911-1913, the marathon was a footrace from Bellingham to the highest point of the volcano and back. The Mount Baker Ski club was organized in 1927, it was a group of ten skiers who only had two pairs of skies and they took turns, while the others watched them down

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