East Bank Baker Lake

We began at the north end of Baker Lake crossing the Baker River about a half mile from the parking lot trailhead. We stopped at the bridge over Hidden Creek to take a break and cooled down quickly from the wind coming down the creek ravine. Ther are some huge old growth cedars along the way, one nearly nine feet in diameter.

Our main challange was the fording of four creeks along the way. All of them were close to water falls making the crossing even more difficult. Our destinantion was Noisy Creek Camp where we had lunch and enjoyed the view across the lake of Mt Baker. According to the GPS reading we logged in 10.5 miles round trip which was about a mile more than the book stated. Except for some muddy parts and the streams across the trail, the trail is in great shape. We encountered a few a few trees across the trail but all were easily negotiable