reply to post by Dutty_Rag
Is there any source that you can find to back up the "public knowledge"?
been looking and I can't find any article on melting at mt baker.

DEc 12th Weekly Update
Cascade Range Volcanoes Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL
Aviation Color Code: GREEN
Activity Update: All volcanoes in the Cascade Range are at normal levels of background seismicity. These include Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams in Washington State; Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Three Sisters, Newberry Volcano, and Crater Lake, in Oregon; and Medicine Lake volcano, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak in northern California.
Mount St. Helens has been at Volcano Alert Level NORMAL (Aviation Color Code GREEN) since July 10, 2008, a change assigned 5-6 months after the late January cessation of its 2004-2008 eruption.
Recent Observations: All Cascade volcanoes remain seismically very quiet. Mount St. Helens continues to receive close attention despite its NORMAL alert status. A major winter storm is expected this weekend in the Northwest, and high winds could produce some seismic noise. The U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington continue to monitor these volcanoes closely and will issue additional updates and changes in alert level as warranted.
Historical activity at Mount Baker includes several explosions during the mid-19th century, which were witnessed from the Bellingham area, and since the late 1950s, numerous small-volume debris avalanches. In 1975, increased fumarolic activity in the Sherman Crater area caused concern that an eruption might be imminent. Additional monitoring equipment was installed and several geophysical surveys were conducted to try to detect the movement of magma. The level of Baker Lake was lowered and people were restricted from the area due to concerns that an eruption-induced debris avalanche or debris flow might enter Baker Lake and displace enough water to either cause a wave to overtop the Upper Baker Dam or cause complete failure of the dam.USGS EveryThing you Would Or Could know about Mt Baker
However, few anomalies other than the increased heat flow were recorded during the geophysical surveys nor were any other precursory activities observed to indicate that magma was moving up into the volcano. An increased level of fumarolic activity has continued at Mount Baker from 1975 to the present, but there are no other changes that suggest that magma movement is involved.
Originally posted by Dutty_Rag
I'll tell you one thing though - if you get a chopper and fly over that Mt, there WILL be a bald spot on once side if my father says there is - he has no reason to lie, he is an expert in this field and his credentials are impeccable!
Originally posted by dreams n chains
And that is where the public knowledge is easily available.
Can you see the mountain Elf?
Thank you Dutty_Rag for a very intriguing thread. I am learning a lot from it!
Originally posted by JustMike
Does anyone know where on the Web we can find any real-time (or reasonably recent) satellite infra-red imagery of Nth America? I am sure such data and imagery exists but haven't been able to track it down.
The reasoning is simple: if we can locate good-quality imagery for the Mt Baker region, then if there is one side of the mountain that is bare of snow, it's likely that it will show up as warmer than the rest, which means it will have a brighter colour.
Anyone able to help?



But even that link you gave is a starting point and well worth having. I bookmarked it.
) for all sorts of reasons and I would guess that a fair number of them are for very mundane reasons
indeed. Like avalanches, for example. Okay, so we have to assume that the avalanche wasn't the result of a tremor, but most of the time that's a
fair assumption, depending where the avalanche is and what are the odds of one happening spontaneously. (I would suppose in Utah that would have been
a snow avalanche rather than rocks or other debris?)
Not saying that they all do or they always do, but they can. So, the officials involved often prefer to keep
things under wraps while they do their studies. The other side of it is that if they release info that they are investigating "an anomaly" or even
"an interesting effect" in relation to a volcano, some people will assume the worst and start panicking (with a little help from the gutter press,
no doubt, in between reporting on Britney or women giving birth to chickens).
, but I take the words of the tabloids (print or electronic) with large lumps of salt and at least try to
find some form of reasonable verification for extraordinary claims. But sadly, some people don't, and they can suffer through (quite often) worrying
over nothing. The other side of it is that if the media "cry wolf" once too often, then they're ignored when a real threat comes along and again,
people suffer. So it's a fine line at times.
-- for reliable information. The OP is doing his best; frankly I find his inability to get a lot
of information makes his claims more believable.