Continuing from my last blog, my visit to Artist Point didn’t stop there. The last day of my trip I decided to pack it in. I was staying across the boarder in BC, Canada and planned to go salmon fishing. The local rivers were full of large 20-30 pound Springs (or Chinook) but I was after the Coho. The Coho run had just started so fishing was pretty tough. By late afternoon, I was finally able to catch one.
This only left me a few hours to make it up to the Artist Point area in hopes of catching a sunset as well. The traffic was terrible as most of the Canadians were coming back from there long Thanksgiving weekend. It took forever to get to the US border crossing and thankfully it wasn’t busy. Long story short, I made it in time to hike up to a nice vantage point. I was pleasantly surprised to see a half moon rise over Mt. Baker just before sunset. Unfortunately local low lying clouds were obscuring part of Mt. Baker so I had to wait for a while until it cleared. The picture shown was taken well after the sun went down but the beautiful Belt of Venus more than made up for it.
It was quite spectacular to witness this massive glaciated volcano with the moon above and all the brilliant fall colors surrounding it! This will definitely become an annual pilgrimage.
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