Heliotrope Creek

Brother Tim and I hiked the Heliotrope Ridge trail while he was in the area for work. The weather was lousy at home but up in the mountains was beautiful. The Heliotrope Ridge trail runs up to Coleman Glacier on the west side of Mount Baker and is also the climbing route for Mount Baker from that side of the peak and the route we went up last autumn. The trail requires crossing several creeks, this one twice, not always an easy thing to do when there is a lot of water coming down from the glacier.