Mount Baker — Thursday, Jul. 10, 2025

Mount Baker summit via CD route on July 10/11. We started at 1pm and got to Black Butte in 4 hours. Trail was snow free all the way to Hogsback. The only real obstacle worth mentioning is first river crossing. Lots of people are crossing right were trail ends but we found it was much easier to cross up the stream, all of us ended up with dry trail runners. Lots of blooming flowers above tree line, little buggy but was not terrible. No more running water after Hogsback. Few other parties camped at Black Buttes. Began summit push at 3am. We accidently went up keeping to the right from camp following another party and encountered a large crevasse with a snow bridge over it. Another party turned around and went down to walk around it in the bottom but we opsed to take a snow bridge with extra precautions, definitely wound not do that on soft snow. Once we were on a route, conditions were great. Got to the summit 4 hours later. It was little breezy with 15 mpg winds but clear sky giving us opportunity to appreciate the beauty of North Cascades.