From Vancouver, BC and 8 other places. Read from the airport weather stations between you and the summit and the cloud layers at the summit.
Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Mount St. Helens, Denali, The Olympics and Mount Angeles. Visible now or not, the five-day forecast, and the sunrise and sunset light. $1.99, one time.
Reading the airports along the sightline.
Baker sits ESE of Vancouver, BC (bearing about 120°), so sunset is the safer bet year-round. The sun sets well behind you and lights the west face. Sunrise works most of the year too, but near the winter solstice the sun comes up only about 6° off the summit bearing, almost directly behind the peak, so you are looking into the glare instead of the color. That glare window is winter here, not the equinoxes.
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Each region reads its own weather stations. Twenty miles can be the difference between fog and a clear view.
69 miles (111 km) to the summit.
55 miles (88 km) to the summit.
66 miles (106 km) to the summit.
29 miles (47 km) to the summit.
30 miles to the summit.
41 miles to the summit.
58 miles to the summit.
72 miles to the summit.
84 miles to the summit.
Which months and which hours the mountain is most often visible from Vancouver, BC.
SR 542 and Artist Point access, with agency reports within 25 miles of Mount Baker. Camera coverage is limited.
We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Vancouver, BC and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 10,781 ft. No crowd reports.
Cloud forecasts get less reliable the further out they go. Days four and five are drawn in six-hour steps for that reason, and the forecast stops at five.
Different weather stations, different sky. The same morning can be fog in one and clear in the other, twenty miles apart. Each region page reads its own stations.
Wildfire smoke and haze can hide the mountain on a day the cloud numbers say clear. When the numbers are unsure, the page says so.
Our pick for binoculars: Vortex Diamondback HD 10x42 on Amazon
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