Climbed Baker via Coleman-Deming route in one day push.

Started at 3:30 am. Trail is great condition, there are two streams crossing - one of them may be tricky but doable. Reached climbers camp in couple hours or even less. There are were a lot of people waking up or starting their climb. When we reached the glacier we put crampons on and roped up. Glacier travel was great, very good boot track made ascent really easy. There are few small visible crevesses on the way, easy to step over, but conditions may change quicky. When we reached Roman wall to took some rest and some food before final pushh to the summit. Roman wall was ok but slow, some people from my group were already exhausted at this point. When we reached the summit we dropped our packs and went to actuall summit hill. Zero winds gave us unlimmited time to spent on the summit. We tooks some photos, rest and food and headed back. Snow became softer and slushy so Roman wall descent was really nice by fresh untached snow. On the way back we took little bit right of the trail and my buddy did step into hidden crevasse full leg deep. There are some hidden crevasse and tiny snow bridges, I would recommend stay on regular trail. 

Did a 3-day trip with Mountain Madness, with a plan to summit on the Easton Glacier path. Got to the trailhead around noon on Friday. Not too many cars in the parking lot. Road in was a little rough with potholes, but nothing too bad. High clearance is a good idea, but probably not absolutely necessary.

Trail was in great shape. You spend a good amount of time walking along a dirt trail, then along a ridge line (a moraine), so it helps to have poles if you're not super coordinated or uncomfortable around heights. Got to base camp a few hours later, steady grade incline the whole way up. There were a few other tents around, but plenty of spots for us to set up camp. To get water, we went over a knoll to the right of the campsites for the glacial run-off. Water was nice and cold. No bugs flying around, although we saw plenty in the snow. Tons of wildberries in the wooded part of the trail. 

Unfortunately for us, weather conditions did not allow us to summit. Still, we tied ourselves to each other and walked a little across the glacier in our crampons and got to see the (very deep) crevasses up close and personal. Definitely some good ones to learn some ice climbing too! I'd say it's really the end of the season for Baker climbs now. The crevasses are ready to swallow you whole.  

Headed out on Sunday. Took us about 3 hours to descend from base camp. 

Summit attempt up Mount Baker via the Easton Glacier.  Arrived at Sandy Camp the afternoon of Sept 3rd.  Hiked up to about 7000 feet neat The Portal along the rocky ridge attempting to spy a feasible route.  The glacier is very broken and no clear routes were visible without significant back and forth glacier traversing.  We opted to delay the usual early AM alpine start as we did want to be wandering around crevasses with limited sight distance visibility.  We began our route up at 8am and only saw two other parties at camp.  We entered the Easton Glacier past 6000 feet where it was close to the rocky ridge and traversed across a very crevassed surface (small and narrow in the AM, however past noon, water was flowing and the entire surface became much softer).  We opted to find a route which skirted left and below the ice dome and traversed back right above it, connecting with a more established path upwards, gaining right and traversing several ridges.  We opted to turn back at around 9100 feet as it was hot and the snow was getting soft.  Upon joining and taking the more established path we encountered a snow bridge proving the only access back - it was about 12 inches wide and 10 feet long.  A picket was insitu, which we used after ensuring it was stable.  The surface of the bridge was slushy proving an unnerving lack of confident purchase for our crampons - I suspect that within a week or so this will be unpassable - however going left and below the dome provided a route with more passable crevasses.  I would advise a start between 2-4 AM to allow for daylight to assist with route finding options for all the crevasses which are opening.  Get back down before the snow gets soft as the route is extremely broken and will most likely be unclimbable within 10 days.  Detailed photos of the route and conditions are in my AllTrails link below as well as the location of the snow bridge.  You can zoom into the topo map to see our route.  More info is also available in the Movescount link along with downloadable GPX files.

Great weather for a summit.  Got an alpine start ~ 3am and reached the peak around 7:30 / 8. That being said, the way down was pretty brutal.  Sliding across mashed potatoes the whole way.  There were quite a few crevasses opened up as well, I imagine that will only increase with the hot weather.  To be 100% clear, this is not a non technical hike.  You need crampons, ropes, climbing harness / helmet, and glacier travel skills (crevasse rescue, self arrest, etc).