A Fortress of Glaciers: The Mt. Baker Orbit

In late 2019 Alex and I signed up for a ski mountaineering course on Mt. Baker with Pro Guiding Service. After a few seasons of backcountry touring we were feeling limited by our lack of glacier travel and mountaineering skills. We had taken our AIARE 1 course and could travel and route find in the wintry backcountry, but we could not traverse onto the slopes of some of the more remote mountains in Washington because they were surrounded and covered by glaciers.

Backcountry Ski Trips, North Cascades, MountaineeringSonja SaxeApril 12, 2021Comment