Mount Baldy

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Mount Baldy (Mount San Antonio) is the highest mountain in the San Gabriel Mountains and the third-highest in Southern California. A short drive from Caltech, it offers hiking in the summer and opportunities for local mountaineering and both resort and backcountry skiing in the winters.

Contents 1 Routes 1.1 Ski Hut Trail 1.2 Iron-Baldy Traverse 2 Skiing 2.1 Backcountry Skiing 2.1.1 The Baldy Bowl 2.1.2 San Antonio Ski Hut 2.2 Mount Baldy Ski Resort 3 Trip Reports 3.1 Winter Trip Reports 3.2 Other Trip Reports 3.3 Multimedia 4 See Also

Routes

There are many ways to reach the summit of Baldy. A couple of favorites are described here.

Ski Hut Trail

Iron-Baldy Traverse

Skiing

Backcountry Skiing

The Baldy Bowl

See Baldy Bowl Chutes.

San Antonio Ski Hut

The Sierra Club maintains a volunteer-run ski hut below Baldy Bowl.

Mount Baldy Ski Resort

This is by far the closest ski resort to Caltech, and there are often very good deals to be had. However, its proximity to a metropolis and the fact that decent snow is only to be found here a few times a year means its practically impossible to ski good snow here without huge crowds.

Trip Reports

Winter Trip Reports

• Baldy Bowl Ski Trip 2010
• Baldy Mountaineering 2002
• Baldy Mountaineering 2006 (includes some good background info, e.g. driving directions)
• Hamik's blog highlights Baldy in winter 2010.

Also, we've done many practice trips to Mt. Baldy as part of the Sierra winter mountaineering trips (to come on this year's trip, see Winter Trip!)

Other Trip Reports

• Iron Baldy Traverse 2011

Multimedia

Since there have been so many trips to Mt. Baldy and it is our favourite local spot for mountaineering practice trips and quick powder-day ski laps, a large number of photo albums have amassed over the years. Find a partial list here: Mount Baldy Multimedia.

Mount Baldy pictures

Lukasz, from the 2010 club trip	Summit shot, 2008 club trip (first weekend)	Summit shot, 2008 club trip (first weekend)
Nick and his brother Derek during a ski trip	Baldy Bowl after a week of epic El Nino storminess.	The theme of this trip report is, "holy shit, that's a lotta snow!" Holy shit indeed. Teehee!
Derek Stadie flies off the buried San Antonio Ski Hut outhouse	Nick Stadie in front of the Baldy Ski Hut with some Canadian brew	And Nick skins to the summit plateau!
Looking apprehensively into Zeke's Chute.

See Also

• A great deal of relevant information can be found at Baldy Mountaineering 2006
• The summitpost.org Mt. Baldy page has good information.
• Mount Baden-Powell, another great, local peak
• Iron Mountain, connected to Baldy by a ridge traverse