Mt. Baker North Ridge

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Re: Mt. Baker North Ridge

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Cool video and sound effects.
Although I'm not a fan of POV footage from a fish-eye Go Pro. Makes the terrain look way steeper and more exposed than it really is. Not to say this climb was not, or is not steep and exposed. (I've don't know first hand and know nothing of the route.)
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North Ridge of Baker is a classic moderate mountaineering route on Baker. I've been wanting to do it for years but the road to Heliotrope Ridge always seems to have issues.
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That is a great video, the fish eye does make it look steep, which it is. It looks like ( hard to tell as they do not have enough scenic view) they went up the the "short" end of the ice wall, puts you onto the upper ridge faster.

If you were to hit the ice wall about in the middle of the wall it is a full pitch ( maybe a bit more) of of near vert glacier ice ( can have a lot of features so not too bad climbing) to reach the upper ridge. The guy doing the video was correct in that there can be some big cracks up there tha cause you worries at times.

The North Side of baker is one of my favorite climbs.
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Awesome video!
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Nice!

makes me very restless sitting here staring at concrete... :shock:
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