A cow near Ferndale
Autumn road near Racehorse Creek
Backyard toward Mount Baker- Birch Bay
Cross at Racehorse Creek- Custer Rest Area Northbound
- Custer Rest Area Southbound
- Dave Tucker (geologist) (Wikipedia)
David Samuel Tucker is a geologist, author, and union organizer in Washington state. He is a research associate at Western Washington University. He was an instructor at North Cascades Institute, and the director of the Mount Baker Volcano Research Center (now closed). He writes the blog Northwest Geology Field Trips, a blog aimed at laypeople detailing where to find interesting geology in the Pacific Northwest. In 2015, he published a popular book on Washington geology, Geology Underfoot in Western Washington. He resides in Bellingham, Washington. In the 1980s he worked as a mountaineering guide in the Cascades, Mexico, and South America.
Fallen Tree at Racehorse Creek
- Lake Samish
Leaf at the Fossil Fields
Mossy Shale- Nooksack River
- Racehorse Creek
- Racehorse Creek (wa100.dnr.wa.gov)
Racehorse Creek, a small waterway near Deming, Washington, is a must-see destination for fossil aficionados. The area is known for its fossil beds—50 million-year-old leaf fossils, including sycamore and swamp cypress, await dedicated collectors. In addition to abundant fossils, the creek boasts the impressive Racehorse Falls, a 169-foot-tall multi-stage waterfall that’s a short 0.6 mile hike to reach.
Shallow waters to the waterfall- The Mount Baker Highway was constructed by Whatcom County in 1893 as a wagon road traveling northeast from Bellingham along the Nooksack River through Deming and Kendall to Maple Falls.
- The North Fork Nooksack River rises at the Nooksack Cirque east of Mount Shuksan within the western part of North Cascades National Park in central Whatcom County.
- Washington State Fossil Sites and Collecting Localities (fossilspot.com)
- Whatcom County, Washington (Wikipedia)
Whatcom County (/ˈwɒtkəm/, /ˈhwɒtkəm/) is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Washington, bordered by the Lower Mainland (the Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional Districts) of British Columbia to the north, Okanogan County to the east, Skagit County to the south, San Juan County across Rosario Strait to the southwest, and the Strait of Georgia to the west. Its county seat and largest population center is the coastal city of Bellingham, comprising the Bellingham, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and as of the 2020 census, the county’s population was 226,847.
cities and populated places
- Acme, Washington
- Bellingham, Washington
- Blaine, Washington
- Custer, Washington
- Deming, Washington
- Ferndale, Washington
- Glacier, Washington
- Kendall, Washington
- Maple Falls, Washington
- Van Zandt, Washington
- Welcome, Washington
- incomplete list
northbound on Interstate 5
southbound on Interstate 5