Mount Baker eruption story published in Adventures NW magazine

The Spring 2014 Adventures NW.

Pick up* a free copy of Adventures NW magazine to find a fictional account of a near-future eruption at Mount Baker. The story was written by Dave Tucker, and contains a number of photos by John Scurlock, as well as a magnificently photoshopped rendition of Baker in eruption. Special insider info for MBVRC blog-o-philes: the eruption cloud is taken from a photo of Semeru (Java); the Baker view is a photo by John D’Onofrio (publisher/editor/chief cook and bottle washer at Adventures NW) taken from out in the San Juans. A photo essay will appear on the magazine’s website next week.

Bear in mind that the eruption story is one of only several possible scenarios for a Baker eruption. This one is based on the 6600 year old ‘BA’ tephra eruption, the largest from Sherman Crater in the geologic record. A lahar is generated (read the story to learn where it goes and what it does). Certainly a number of other Baker variations could be told. Much depends on wind direction, height and volume of the eruption plume, whether or not a volcanic landslide and lahar develop and in what drainage(s).

*Adventures NW is a free outdoors magazine published in Bellingham. Find it at “hundreds of locations region-wide, throughout Whatcom, Skagit, San Juan, and Island counties, at select spots in Snohomish, King and Pierce counties, and in Leavenworth, the Methow Valley, Spokane and Wenatchee. The magazine is also available at all REI locations in Washington and Oregon as well as at numerous locations in the Vancouver, BC metro area and through races and events and at visitor centers.”

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