Baker River slabs

[John_Scurlock]

I was coming down the Baker River yesterday afternoon and passed by the slab feature shown in the photograph.  I've seen it many times before but this time decided to grab a quick snap of it.  It's located on the north side of the river at approximately 48.82863, -121.43918 if you want to google earth it.  I'm sorry to say that it would be a hellish ~seven miles of vicious travel up the river from the trail end at Sulphide Creek.  The view looks to the north.  This is on the south-southeasterly trending ridge that extends from Mineral Mountain to the Baker River.  Has anyone heard of anyone visiting or otherwise investigating it?  From the air it looks much like something you'd see in Darrington.  The photograph was taken from 48.80671, -121.43873, while at an altitude of about 6400'. The slab extends below the bottom of the frame, but not all the way to the valley bottom.

[rat]

That's quite a set of perched blocks along the side and top of that lower, scimitar-like feature. Maybe solid for now...

[John_Roper]

We looked at it from Pioneer Ridge in 1980 and thought of it as “Skateboard Wall.”  First ascendants can call it what they want, of course.  Pardon funky colors. Film got wet.

Edited August 30 by John_Roper