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5 unusual facts about Mount Baker


Bruce Harrell

Bruce is married to Joanne Harrell and they are raising their family in the Mt. Baker neighborhood.

Center Park

Center Park, located at 2121 26th Avenue South, is a subsidized high-rise building complex located in the Mt. Baker neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, designed to provide living accommodation to physically or mentally challenged individuals and their caretakers.

Hygrophorus bakerensis

The specific epithet bakerensis refers to Mount Baker, a volcano in the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, where the mushroom was first collected.

James Vashon

During the second tour in the Caribbean for the Alert, Joseph Baker (after whom Mount Baker was named) served as cabin boy for Commander Vashon.

Pixie-bob

In the spring of 1985, Carol Ann Brewer purchased a polydactyl cat near Mount Baker, Washington, in the Cascade Mountains.


Black Buttes

Glacially eroded remnants of this volcano rise above the Deming Glacier, part of the glacier system of Mount Baker.


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Mount Baker National Forest

The 1935 version of The Call of the Wild with Clark Gable, Loretta Young and Jack Oakie was filmed on location in Mount Baker National Forest because Twentieth Century Pictures felt it was remote enough to guarantee lack of interruption from skiers and other park visitors.