Awsome Day!!!!!

Location, Lynden, WA

What an awesome day!! We had decided to spend the day at Mt Baker. Thomas and Debbie from Portland, Clyda and I, and Mark and Candi traveled in the truck with Mark driving. The ladies packed a picnic lunch and not knowing what the weather would be, we all took jackets. Speaking of weather, it was over caste and cool when we left Lynden.

We stopped in Maple Falls which is a wide spot in the road with a gas station/convenience store, a town hall, a state liquor store, and several other buildings. It had started to sprinkle. After a bathroom and coffee break, we continued on Hwy 542. We stopped at the ranger station for information and then drove up the Glacier Creek Road towards Mt Baker. It is a black topped one lane road for most of the way but occasionally is gravel with pot holes. There are water falls all along this road. We did a lot of stopping for pictures. The water is very muddy from the glacier runoff.


Eventually, the sun came out and the view opened up towards Mt Baker. What a view!!. Only the pictures can tell the story.


We stopped for a tailgate picnic lunch along a logging road and then drove to the end of the road before we turned around and retraced our way back to Hwy 542. Our next stop was Heather meadows at the upper ski area. The snow was still on the ground here and along the parking lot.

The view of of the mountains from here is really great. This is part of the ski area.


An impromptu snow ball fight.

We drove back down the mountain and stopped at Nooksack Falls. This is a double thundering cataract which also drives a power plant through a metal flume. The falls are on the Glacier River and directly below them are joined by the Nooksack River. It is very hard to get a good picture of this as the falls are in a deep gorge.

On the way home we stopped for dinner in Sumas at Bob’s Burger’s and Brew. It is becoming a Friday night thing I guess. We spent another hour looking at all the pictures on the TV. It was a long but really awesome day.