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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: American Border Peak, Arbuthnot Lake, Bacon Creek, Bacon Peak, Bacon Peak Falls, Baker River (Washington), Bellingham Bay, Berdeen Falls, Black Buttes, Blum Basin Falls, Blum Creek, Boundary Bay, Canadian Bacon (mountain), Chilliwack Lake, Chuckanut Mountains, Colonial Peak, Columbia Valley (Lower Mainland), Davis Peak (Washington), Depot Creek, Depot Creek Falls, Depot Valley Falls, Desolation Peak (Washington), Diablo Lake, Eliza Island, Galbraith Mountain, Goodell Creek, Green Lake Falls, Hozomeen Mountain, Jack Mountain, Lake Padden, Lake Samish, Lake Whatcom, Little Chilliwack River, Lower Curtis Glacier, Lummi Island, Lummi River, Luna Peak (Washington), Mazama Falls, Mount Baker, Mount Blum, Mount Despair (Washington), Mount Prophet, Mount Redoubt (Washington), Mount Shuksan, Mount Shuksan Waterfalls, Mount Spickard, Mount Terror (Washington), Mount Triumph, Nooksack Falls, Nooksack River, Nooksack Valley, Point Roberts, Washington, Portage Island, Rosario Strait, Ross Lake, Samish River, Seahpo Peak, Semiahmoo Bay, Semiahmoo Spit, Shannon Creek, Skagit Range, Skagit River, Slesse Creek, Sulphide Creek, Sulphide Creek Falls, Sumas Mountain, Sumas Prairie, Sumas River, Swift Creek (Washington), Swift Creek Landslide, Twin Sisters Mountain, Vedder River, Wells Creek, Wells Creek Falls, Whatcom Falls Park. Excerpt: Mount Baker (Lummi: Qwu'm Kw lshe n; Nooksack: Kw'eq Smaenit or Kwelshan), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount Saint Helens. About 31 miles (50 km) due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County, Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field. While volcanism has persisted here for some 1.5 million years, the current glaciated cone is likely no more than 140,000 years old, and possibly no older than 80-90,000 years. Older volcanic edifices have mostly eroded away due to glaciation. After Mount Rainier, Mount Baker is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade Range volcanoes; the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker, 0.43 cu mi (1.79 km) is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. It is also one of the snowiest places in the world; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located 14 km (8.7 mi) to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season-1,140 in (2,900 cm). At 10,781 ft (3,286 m), it is the third-highest mountain in Washington State and the fifth-highest in the Cascade Range, if Little Tahoma Peak, a subpeak of Mount Rainier, is not counted. Located in the Mount Baker Wilderness, it is visible from much of Greater Victoria, Greater Vancouver, and, to the south, from Seattle (and on clear days Tacoma) in Washington. Indigenous natives have known the mountain for thousands of years, but the first written record of the mountain is from the Spanish. Spanish explorer Gonzalo Lopez de Haro mapped it in 1790 as the Gran Montana del Carmelo, "Great Mount Carmel." The explorer George Vancouver renamed the mountain for 3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker of HMS Discovery, who saw it on April 30, 1792. Mount Baker was well-known to indigenous people of the
