Mount Baker (Coleman/Deming) — Friday, Jun. 21, 2002

Left TH on Saturday morning and reached camp pretty quickly as it is only about 3 miles. Lower part of coleman glacier is starting to break up, with small breaks that will be revealing larger crevasses. Left camp (7200') @ 3am and reached the saddle (9000') around 445am. Up until that point the weather was fine, but the Lenticular we saw the night before was a good warning to what was coming. Low visibility plagued us all the way to the summit, with 2 small 1 minute windows that let us see the Roman Wall to our left as we ascended the Deming Glacier to the summit. With 3 rope teams of 4 we were able to safely wand the route. Many teams turned around on the Coleman side, but we saw many from the Easton side reach the summit the same time we did. No views at all from the summit, with only a few 30 second sunbreaks. Reached the summit at 720am. Left 15 minutes later and reached the saddle quite quickly only to find better visibility. Once we got lower on the Coleman Glacier, the summit opened up quite a bit - so many others must have had a better summit view than we did. Full TR and images to come soon at www.nwog.org