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Mount Baker MOUNT BAKER Mt. Baker has emerged through time, development, and recreation to be a key focal point in the Pacific Northwest. Mt. Baker, or also known as the Koma Kulsan, or the La Gran Montana de Carmelo is a wonderful and historic exploration in itself. While being in the Pacific Northwest, it has brought fascination to many people around the world ( Heller, Mt. Baker Ski Area). Lummi, Nooksack, and Skagit tribes were the first tribes to surround Mount Baker, they were also the first to actually name the Mountain. They called the Mountain “Koma Kulsan.” Koma has been interpreted as meaning “white and shining” and also “steep and precipitous.” Kulsan has been referred to as meaning, “ broken off or disrupted at the top.” This gives reason to believe that this Mountain has erupted sometime in it’s past (Heller, Mt. Baker Ski Area). The next name given was the La Gran Montana Carmelo. Named by Francisco Eliza, a Spanish explorer. Catholic Monks, who lived on Mount Carmelo on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine, inspired this name. These monks wore baker, mt, mountain, area, ski, mount, heller, lunberg, first, tony, time, one, name, lodge, climb, climbing, being, because, white, two, today, snow, place, mountains, known, hardest, been, year, wonderful, while, volcanoes, volcano, very, steep, soon