Local History
Mountain Trivia: Round Five
By Jason D. Martin
This article marks the fifth time that Mount Baker Experience has featured mountain trivia. I hear it all the time. When...
Roy’s picnic table
By Tony Moceri
On a late winter day in March, Mother Nature teased an early spring offering: A beautiful day that reminds all of us...
Peace and its forms
San Juan National Historic Park offers endangered species, rare ecosystems and peace commemoration
By Eric Lucas
Imagine a park honoring peace.
Not just peace — the absence...
Sentinels on the Peaks
Darrington residents restore fire lookout, now open for overnighters
Story by Martha Rasmussen | Photos courtesy Friends of North Mountain
The Great Fire of 1910 incinerated...
Washington Glacier Ski Project
By Jason Hummel
Some 20,000 years ago, glaciers ruled the planet. As the world warmed, the Cascades we know and love today were revealed. Yet...
Skagit Headwaters
B.C. and Washington governments, tribes, businesses continue to oppose mining in headwaters of Skagit River
Story by Ian Haupt
Photos courtesy of the Wilderness Committee
Those in...
Review: Orca
By Meg Olson
Orca: Shared Waters, Shared Home
Lynda V. Mapes
Braided River, A Co-Publication with The Seattle Times
Our bookstore hangs over the waters of Penn Cove...
Who tames the Khumbu Icefall, and other mountain trivia
This is the third installment of Mount Baker Experience Mountain Trivia. Find the answers at the bottom of this page.
By Jason D. Martin
1 The...
Mountain Trivia: Think you know the Cascades?
Politicians on first ascents, highest peaks, glaciology and an accidental bowel movement
By Jason D. Martin
Our last installment of mountain trivia was popular so we’re...