Yeah that sounds more likely haha

It'd be a long ass day lol.

If he was on foot and doing it in a day, he'd likely have to start at about 2am from the trailhead to hike up with crampons and not posthole the whole way. For someone in very good shape and experienced, they could summit around 8-9am. Getting back to the car, grabbing lunch in glacier and heading over to the ski area to check it out wouldn't take more than a couple hours.

If they were on skis, the timing compresses considerably. You'll go (slightly) faster up and way faster down and want to summit later so your getting snow instead of ice. That might be a 4am trailhead start for a 10-11am summit and back to the car before 1pm easy.

It's doable but it's adventurous and takes some crazy legs

Ski resorts don't often go to summits and Mt. Baker is a glaciated peak. The typical summit route for skiing (that I know of) goes over Colfax glacier specifically. So you need to be a decently experienced ski mountaineer to handle the skiing as well as crevasse concerns as the seasons turn.

The ascent from the trailhead is about 7 miles and 7k feet elevation to reach the summit. The chairs at the ski area only go up to about 6k feet or less and are located northeast of the main mountain area. The summit is around 10.5k feet elevation.

There's plenty of incredible backcountry skiing throughout the Baker area and I believe other summit routes. But nothing a resort or chairs would go near. I just realized it's not even a resort there either. It's just the 'ski area' that has lifts, avalanche mitigation, and half the map marked off as a cliff warning lol.

Doing it on skis next time. That hike out was a long bummer lol

Have been in the central cascades and Olympic the last 2 weeks... Happy to get it in between the fires and rain. Nothing better than those alpine fields of heather and berries