Chronology - Mount Baker Area Home

Mount Baker, Mount Shuksan, and areas accessible from the Mount Baker highway.

Key:

White = Foreground chronology Blue = Background chronology Yellow = Undocumented chronology

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Year Month-Day Who Where What References
1925 or before - - Heather Meadows Start of recreational skiing subject index
1926-27 - Mt Baker Development Company Heather Meadows Mt Baker highway completed to Heather Meadows. Mt Baker Lodge opened. subject index
1930s
1930 or before - W.J. Maxwell et al Mt Baker area Popular tours established: Table Mountain, Shuksan Arm, Lake Ann, Kulshan Ridge, Coleman Glacier, Chain Lakes mtneer-a-1930-p53
1930 May 4 Edwin Loners and R. B. Sperlin Mt Baker Coleman Glacier, ski ascent, partial ski descent mtneer-b-1930-jun, mtneer-a-1930-p50, cfe-scrapbook-1st-ski-ascent, mtneer-a-1941-p5
1931 June 28 Ben Thompson, Robert Hayes, Milana Jank, Otto Strizek Mt Baker Park Glacier, ski-climb rambler-1931-Jul, rambler-1931-Aug, aaj-1932-p543, mtneer-b-1932-nov
1932 Spring Ben Thompson, Don Henry and Darroch Crookes Mt Baker Partial orbit, east-west ski traverse from Mt Baker Lodge to Kulshan Cabin asa-1935-p68, mtneer-a-1941-p5
1933 - Don Fraser and Hans Otto Giese Mt Baker Coleman Glacier (assumed), complete ski ascent and descent st-1933-sep-23
1935-36 - Mt Baker Development Company Heather Meadows "Ski escalator" (first lift) installed subject index
1938 June 19 Sigurd Hall, Dwight Watson and one other Ruth Mountain Ski summit dw-scrapbook-idx, dw-scrapbook-p361, dw-movies
1939 May 13 Andy Hennig, Erick Larson, Dwight Watson Mt Baker West-east ski traverse from Kulshan Cabin to the summit, then descending via the Cockscomb to Epley Portal and Baker Lodge mtneer-b-1939-jun, dw-scrapbook-p449
1940s
1941 March 29 Henry Reasoner, Otto Trott Mt Shuksan White Salmon Glacier, ski descent spi-1941-apr-06, bh-1981-jan-22
1950s
Circa 1950 - - Mt Baker area Road extended up Glacier Creek bsyb-1951-p301
1959 - - Mt Baker area Roads extended up Shuksan and Sulphur Creeks mtneer-b-1933-sep, st-1959-nov-29-pic9, miles-1984-p211
1960s
mid-1960s - Seattle Mountaineer parties Mt Shuksan Ski-climbs via Sulphide Glacier. May have been done earlier. mueller-1968-trails, mtneer-a-1969-p39, firey-joe, magnusson-cal
1970s
1979 June Karl Erickson, Greg Wong Mt Shuksan North face, ski descent undocumented
1980s
1984 July U.S. Congress Mt Baker area Washington Wilderness Act establishes Mt Baker Wilderness Area usfs-1984-wmaps, summit-1986-may-p8
Circa 1987 Spring Steve Vanpatten, Jim Witte Mt Shuksan Summit pyramid, ski descent undocumented
1990s
1993 May 28 George St. James Mt Shuksan Northwest couloir, snowboard descent bh-1993-jun-24-p1
Circa 1997 Spring Steve Hindman Mt Larrabee Ski descent undocumented
1998 Early June David Orsatti Mt Baker Park Glacier headwall, snowboard descent undocumented
2000s
2000 July 16 Rene Crawshaw, Carl Skoog Mt Baker North ridge, ski descent (one rappel) backcountry-2001-jan-p48
2002 June 15 Charlie Berg, Ben and Troy Manfredi Mt Baker Coleman headwall, ski descent undocumented, strawman.
2003 February 2 Ben Manfredi and Sky Sjue Mt Shuksan Fisher Chimneys, ski descent (from Winnie's Slide) undocumented
2003 May 2 Ben Manfredi and Sky Sjue Mt Shuksan Price Glacier (Nooksack Ridge), ski descent undocumented
2003 June 16 Matt Peters, Jim Cronan, Josh Stern Mt Baker High level orbit (from Heliotrope Ridge thru Colfax saddle) undocumented, strawman.
2003 June 25 Ben Manfredi Mt Baker Roosevelt Glacier, ski descent undocumented, strawman
2004 April 2-4 Sam Avaiusini, Jason and Josh Hummel, Lowell Skoog and Sky Sjue Mt Shuksan Nooksack Traverse (from Mt Baker Ski Area to Ruth Mtn via Mt Shuksan and Nooksack Cirque) lds-journal-p1569
2004 May 20 Ross Peritore and Sky Sjue Mt Shuksan Price Glacier (Northeast Chute), ski descent undocumented
2004 July 4 Cyril Benda, Jason and Josh Hummel Sherman Peak (Mt Baker) NE face, ski descent undocumented, strawman.
2006 May 4 Matt Schoenwald, Mason Stafford, Martin Volken Colfax Peak (Mt Baker) South Face, ski descent undocumented
2006 May 12-14 Mark Allen, Greg Balco, Paul Kimbrough, Chris Simmons Twin Sisters Range South-to-north ski traverse, generally along east flank undocumented

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