On Saturday, January 14th, my wife and I decided to get out our snowshoes and head for the Mount Baker Ski Area and Artist's Point. I'd been down with a cold all week and needed to get out and we decided we'd see the sunset on snowshoes.
Artist's Point is a viewpoint between Mount Baker, Mount Shuksan and Table Mountain that offers stunning views of some of the great peaks of the North Cascades. It is accessible by road in the summer months, but the road is closed in the winter.
After driving up to the ski area, we left the parking area about 2:30 p.m. and were back again at 5:00, having spent plenty of time at the top and having seen the sunset. We stopped for our evening meal on the way home, the end of a very pleasant day.
Mount Shuksan from near the parking lot
Table Mountain and a strange sky
Herman Peak
Border Peaks and Mount Larrabee
slopes of Table Mountain
Huntoon Point (note the campers at the very top)
Mount Shuksan and Shuksan Arm
Mount Larrabee
Baker Lake and the North Cascades
Mount Baker
Mount Shuksan
Table Mountain
Mount Baker and sunset
Huntoon Point
Herman Peak, the Border Peaks and Mount Larrabee
campers
the ridges east of Baker
snow sculpture
Mount Baker
the view west
Table Mountain
Mount Baker
sunset colors
Mount Shuksan
headed down
panoramic view from the top
(Table Mountain, Herman Peak, Border Peaks, Mount Larrabee, Mount Shuksan, left to right)
