Mount Baker — Saturday, May. 12, 2018

The snow-covered road to the heliotrope trailhead added an extra mile each way to our summit of Mount Baker. The weather was perfect - sunny and mild with minimal wind. The heliotrope trail still had snow but even the 36 hours between our ascent and descent a significant amount of snow had melted. On the Coleman Glacier, the crevasses were easy to spot and while the Roman Wall was icy in the morning by the time we celebrated at the top we were post-holing back to basecamp. A few long glissades on the way down made for a manageable descent. All together it was a great first summit!