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Earning Your Turns

The Revitalized Cascade Backcountry Alliance Story and photos by Nick Belcaster The secret’s out, folks. Or has been out. Or was never a secret in the...

Ski to Sea celebrates 50 years

The 7-leg relay race hopes to have all 50 states represented By Ian Haupt Ski to Sea will celebrate its 50th birthday this year on Memorial...

Former Mt. Baker Ski Area employee and Deming native publishes extreme...

Elea Plotkin, who grew up in Van Zandt, graduated from Mount Baker High School and whose parents owned the Everybody’s Store, published her debut...

One Sherpa home

Bellingham climber raises funds to build new home for his Sherpa following Nepal earthquake By Ian Haupt Dave Mauro and his hired guide Mingma Chhring Sherpa...

Snowboarder dies in deep snow immersion at Mt. Baker Ski Area

A Bellingham man died while snowboarding at Mt. Baker Ski Area December 10 in a deep snow immersion incident. Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Deb...

Winter 2022 photo gallery

               

Traversing Washington’s peaks

Jason Hummel skis from the Columbia River to U.S./Canada border over more than a decade By Jason Hummel Across the years and plains of those days...

Less pain, more gain

Two-time Everest summiteer shares training tips for long, strenuous climbs and other endurance activity By Leif Whittaker Before I learned about proper endurance training and started...

Jeremy Jones: Shralpinism

Review by Meg Olson The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mountains Jeremy Jones Mountaineers Books In “The Art of Shralpinism: Lessons from the Mounatins,” legendary snowboarder and...

Mount Baker Experience magazine and contributors win awards

Mount Baker Experience and its contributors won awards at Washington Newspaper Publishers Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for special section covers and stories. Mount Baker Experience...