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Please tell me everything you know about Mt. Baker
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Hey guys, I've been doing a lot of thinking about places to move to when school is all done and whatnot. I'm seriously thinking I should be somewhere near Mt. Baker because it seems like simply, the most epic mountain ever.
Nearest big citys? Nearby night life? Rent $$$? Closest airport? How hard is it to get jobs out there? Any useful information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot guys!
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closest city is bellingham at about an hour away, which is also the closest airport. closest major cities are vancouver BC, about 1.5 hours north, and seattle, about 2.5-3 hours south. both have major airports as you probably know. i'll let the western kids answer rent.
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be carefull. its sometimes too much fun when you ride 7 days in a row and every night gets a foot of fresh. and next winter is supposed to be even more snow than this one. so watch out.
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hahahaha your really not helping convince me not to move out there....
...which is a good thing.
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Another thing that sucks about b-ham is it's super hard to find dr. greenthumb.
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EVERYTHING IS A GOOD BUT NOT BECUASE YOU HAVE TO DRIVE A LOT FOR MOUNTAIN SKIING FROM MY BELLINGHAM HOUSE AND IF YOU WANT CLOSE GLACIER IS REALLY FUCK SHIT SO YOU CAN EITHER HAVE THAT OR DRIVE MUCH DISTANCE.
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did you go to college? if your gonna have a real job and not something with minumum wage ($8/hour over here) i guess try and find work in bellingham. bellingham has 60,000ish people and is pretty cool but doesnt really have the nightlife of other cities. you would need to have somebody else know the price of rent...i dont. if you plan on just kind of ski bumming it for a few years, then i would reccomend moving to glacier. its about 30-45 minutes closer to the mountain, filled with hippies, but pretty much no nightlife. driving is not a problem from glacier, hitchiking is easier and cheaper. umm...a pass to baker is $600. free pass if you work up there, even if you only work saturdays and sundays. baker is small, low evelation, tons of snow, tons of terrain, tons of bc, no electricity, no speed quads or gondolas, and no lodging on the hill. thats all that i can really think of right now, you can pm me if you have any other questions
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it's a volcano.
Seriously, I read it in a book once...
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^i dont know what homie is talking about. its a college town... plenty of nightlife to go around
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Unlike what someone said earlier, "mr greenthumb" is VERY easy to find. But thats not important haha.
Bellingham is a town of 80,000ish since the 2000 census (so probably closer to 90,000. Buying houses is a bitch in terms of price, but rent is reasonable, especially if you have a roommate.
Baker lacks the luster of most major resorts' terrain park, but makes up for it in terrain, and relatively short lines. There are quite a few good jobs in and around Bellingham as well. So unless you're a farmer, you aren't going to get much closer... Glacier, and Maple falls are two teensy towns on highway 542, and they are run basically on Baker and the ski industry. (And some EXCELLENT restaurants!)
ummm... Yeah.
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Thanks for the advice. I don't really give a shit about park, if I have ill terrain with tons of snow, who gives a shit about the park. I am from the east coast where we ride park only because THERE ISN"T TONS OF SNOW like there is on the west coast.
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Definately move up here. Bellinghams a super chill down, really laid back in terms of green. Bakers a SUPER legit mountain, the park is shitty, but who needs it when you can build a kicker off anything into the foot of fresh most nights...
Plus, the people at Baker are always pretty nice, and will even smoke you out if you get on a lucky chair.
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Oh yeah, and Baker holds the world record for snowfall... 1,140 inches.
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Reason #1140 to move to Mt. Baker.
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Mount Baker (elevation 10,778 feet, 3,285 m) is a glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascades of Washington State in the United States about 30 miles (50km) due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County. It is also easily visible from much of Greater Victoria, Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley just across the Canadian border to the north, and especially from the communities of Mission and Abbotsford, both about 45 kilometres (28 miles) east of Vancouver, BC—as well as from some locations in Everett and even Seattle to the southwest. Local Native Americans call the mountain "Koma Kulshan," but the explorer George Vancouver named the mountain for 3rd Lieutenant Joseph Baker of the HMS Discovery, who on April 30, 1792 became the first European to see it.
After Mount Rainier, Baker is the most heavily glaciated of the Cascade volcanoes: the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker (0.43 cubic miles, 1.8 cubic kilometers) is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. It is also one of the snowiest places in the world: in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located on a subsidiary peak, set the world record for snowfall in a single season. (1,140 inches/95 feet/2,896 cm) [1].
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I love baker, it is amazing i wont lie but ...
If i was going to move to a place solely for skiing i would not want to move to Bellingham to ski at Baker. Nor where i live in abbotsford across the border ... If you were to work at Baker i think it would be much better but there is no kind of night life. if you are going to get work in a town somewhere bellingham is still a drive away so instead id move to whistler in that situation and party, work, ski. to each his own though.
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See this is the kind of advice thats really helpful. I'm hardly 100% about moving out to Baker, and am obviously gonna make a trip or two out there before I make any kind of decision like that. Thanks for all the help guys, keep it coming, I really appreciate it.
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the think is how much industry does Whistler really have. To the best of my knowledge you could actually get a real job in Bellingham, whereas in Whistler you work as a waiter or in ski shop. places were you really don't want to spend the rest of your life. Sure you could move up to a manigment position but that will be slow.
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no night life? bham is full of it, and so is the mountain... if you end up working at the mountain, and end up staying up there or in glacier or maple falls, there is still stuff to do. a lot of locals hit the bars regularly after a day of skiing. they start up at the mountain at the lodge, then move the party down to either grahams or Joowana's down in maple falls. joowana can get off the hook, especially during big events throughout the year, like te Banked Slalom.
so even if you around 40 miles out of bham there is stuff to do. either way duncan, your best bet is to spend a couple days out here and see for yourself homie
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I agree just come check it out and decide for yourself : U
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Baker is not a big glamorous destination resort. The lifts are slow, the
park isn't extraordinary, there isn't a whole lot of great skiing in
bounds, and you'll need a transmitter to ride the BC. But the BC
terrain is really really stellar. Even though the drive to Baker is kinda long, I loved Bellingham when I lived
there. It's a bit hippieish, but everybody is just sorta crazy fun. And
granted there's not a lot of "nightlife", but if you have a few
friends, you'll have no lack of things to do at night. And it's an urban skiing paradise.
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And we have an ice rink which dumps its snow out back :)
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Every night! And many kids who can drive other kids around for an urban skiing adventure EHEM
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Hehe if only my car could fit skis in it...
I'll jack my moms truck!
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Where else?
Sportsplex is great + tons of snow drops.
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the hockey is really competitive in bellingham.
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everyone in bellingham calls me big papa
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even if ur a fucken student its $600 for a seasons pass. well worth it tho
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I am going to Baker this year. Sorry, Idea made me need to go there.
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Seattle is the only city in WA with a real nightlife, and at times its questionable meaning not packed at a lot of spots. It would be more worth your time to live in Seattle and hit the mountain with in driving distance.
Unless your from Canada I don't think you can just pack up and move up there anyhow.
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long drive from seatown to baker though...2.5 to 3 hours depending on roads
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Haha finally, some more Newschoolers at Baker. All you newcomers best be chill though. I don't want to see kids start acting all tough in the park and stuff...
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^ dont worry bakers not guna turn into snoqualmie
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At least Baker has a park. Crystal only supplies the pow.
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sorry to steal from the thread, but what colleges are near Baker?
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only one really-western washington u
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hmm never herd of it. Is it a good school?
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depends what u wanna do obviously but yah its a pretty good school
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Teacher, Art and other stuff.
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its the best school in the nation for majoring in a major that you make up with your brain.
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and in "blunt engineering"
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It has one of the most reknowned teaching majors, a very good art program, engineering, nursing... Anyone else care to fill in the rest?
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I'm not so sure about the nursing, but I know that they have a real prestigious electric car engineering program.
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Jah nursing, or at least Whatcom does.
OH YEAH! That answers the guys question too, there's a community college here: Whatcom Community College, and there's a technical college: Bellingham TC
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but what does that even mean, "most reknowned teaching majors"?
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That's what WWU is known for. It's teaching program.
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just do it. you will never know till you try it.
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WWU is a liberal arts college.
There are two college's with in it.
-An interdisaplinary college, very new age style of learning
-Environmental college
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