Visiting Mount Baker, Washington, next year...

It's time I visited some of the volcanoes I've been writing about, for real, and it starts next year. I'm going to Washington state to visit Mount Baker.

Here's the 411

Mount Baker  active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State.

It  has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range. (Mount Saint Helens is the first.).

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.

Mount Baker is second to Mount Rainier as the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade Range volcanoes. The volume of snow and ice  s greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes combined (excluding Mount Rainier.).

Mount Baker is about 31 miles due east of Bellingham, and I'm already researching places where I might stay.

Mt. Baker lodgings include time shares and condominiums for daily or weekly rent.

I'm thinking of Snowater Lodge, which is adjacent to the Nooksack river and which  is quite pretty, according to their website.  And I believe them because every location in Washington state near the mountains is pretty!

There's also plenty to see and do, if you're a nature lover, around Mt. Baker lodgings, so I'll probalby take in a few more sites besides the volcano.

The adventure starts in 2015!