blog entry 3

I am going to be visiting is mount baker. Mount Baker is in San Antonio, TX. The capital is Austin. The countries that border mount baker are New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The bodies of water that border Texas are Canadian, Waco, Whichita falls, Texarkana. The GPS coordinates of Texas are N 48.78884 and W -121.80526. The climate around mount baker is avg. High around Jan. is 34 and avg. low around Jan. is 17. Mount Baker is about It is 10,778 feet high and has the 2nd largest volume of glaciers and snowfields on its flanks. Only Mount rainier has more ice and snow. The history of Mount baker Mount Baker is the youngest of several volcanic centers in the area& one of the youngest volcanoes in the Cascade Range. Mount Baker formed during and since the last ice age. Lava flows from the summit vent erupted between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago. An eruption about 6,600 years ago produced a blanket of ash that extended more than 20 miles northeast. Mount Baker is important because it is an ice-clad volcano in the North Cascades of Washington State about 31 miles due east of the city of Bellingham. After mount Rainier, it is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade Volcano's: the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker (about 1.8 cubic kilometers; 0.43 cubic miles) is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined.mount baker and mount hood are The distance between Mount Hood, OR and Mount Baker, WA is 145.0 miles(234.0 km). I got tom my second location by a plane. the cost is 358.00+ per adult.