Mount Baker (Waputik Mountains)

Mount Baker is a mountain on the Continental Divide, in Alberta and British Columbia, in the Waputik Mountains of the Canadian Rockies. It was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after his friend and climbing partner George Percival Baker (1855–1951), textile manufacturer, plantsman and gardener, and keen mountaineer. Baker described his visit to this area which took place in 1897.[4] In this small volume Baker noted that Collie also proposed to name a pass after him. Collie and Baker were accompanied by Peter Sarbach, and for the first week by H. B. Dixon as well as American members of the Appalachian Mountain Club. Mount Sarbach was named at the same time, as well as several other peaks: "We now named the peaks, after presidents of the Club of our time, Freshfield, Dent, Pilkington, and Walker."

Mount Baker
Distant view of Mt. Baker from the summit of Mount Weed
Highest point
Elevation	3,180 m (10,430 ft) [1]
Prominence	480 m (1,570 ft) [2]
Coordinates	51°39′55″N 116°35′52″W [3]
Geography
Mount Baker Location in Alberta and British Columbia Mount Baker Mount Baker (Canada)
Country	Canada
Provinces	Alberta and British Columbia
Parent range	Waputik Mountains
Topo map	NTS 82N/10
Climbing
First ascent	1923 W.D. Wilcox, R. Aemmer[2]

The mountain has been wrongly identified as "Stremotch Mountain" on subsequent maps and documents after a first map that was submitted by C.S. Thompson to the Surveyor General and subsequently printed in "Map of the Wapta Icefield" in Canadian Alpine Journal Vol 1, No 1, 1907, p.151.[3]

Nearby

• Mount Patterson : 3,197 m (10,489 ft) : North (line parent)
• Trapper Peak : 2,988 m (9,803 ft) : North North East
• Mount Habel : 3,087 m (10,128 ft) : South East

See also

• List of peaks on the British Columbia-Alberta border
• List of mountains of Alberta
• Mountains of British Columbia

References

1. "Mount Baker". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2019-07-20.
2. "Mount Baker". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
3. "Mount Baker". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
4. Mountaineering memories of the past. Privately printed 1951