Artist Point approach to North Ridge of Mt Baker

Not sure if this is a good idea, but seeing as the road is closed and I dont want to add 2k up and down and 16mi round trip to a day ascent of the north ridge this might be a better option. Does anyone have any experience making the approach to the north ridge via Artist Point? Thanks for the help.

I can't speak from experience, so correct me if I'm wrong but I feel like approaching the North Ridge from Artist Point would add comparable mileage, probably even more, and be a lot less efficient, unless maybe you ski in. Even still... that's big.

The road is only open to the Heather Meadows trailhead so you'll have about 8 miles of approach to the N Ridge from the NW side that's all snow with only moderate elevation changes instead of about 10 miles total (road plus trail) to approach the route the standard way. The standard approach gives you a couple of those miles on dry pavement before you hit the snow line and the rest of the way in the snow is relatively simple terrain compared to the traverse out Ptarmigan Ridge, across Coleman Pinnacle, and through the Portals. If I had the time I'd go for the approach from the ski area though, I really like the area east of Table Mountain.

There are essentially three options you could choose from. 1) walk up the Glacier Creek road, 2) walk in via the Easton, down the Coleman, and over, or 3) go in via the Park Glacier/Ptarmigan Ridge approach. They are listed in order of shortest approach... The reality this year is that North Ridge climbs are going to be 2-3 days for most folks instead of 1-2.