When Baker was threatening to erupt they closed the Baker River side of things all the way down the mountain. I wonder if I still have any of those old Forest Service maps with the red zone? They might be collector's items. Baker had a warm lake at the top for a while. It's kind of flat up there on Sherman Peak, and it melted in the middle of it. They were afraid all of that warm water would melt glaciers and bring a wall of mud and rock and water down on the Skagit Valley. At the time it was a serious threat. How soon we forget!

SRS