sight of people slipping and sliding on the way up. Well we started hiking with the goal of making it to the top of Mount Baldy since the weather was great, clear and not that windy. Once we were about half way to Baldy Bowl the weather changed, clouds moved in quickly and visiblity decreased dramamtically. By the time we made it the bowl we were hardly able to see the ski hut only about 100 feet away. While at the bowl we ate our lunch and watched a large group of Search and Rescue people practicing avalanche responses. One of them even asked us if we had avalanche beacons, since we didn't and the fact that the snow was sliding really easily, not to mention that we couldn't see crap we decided against going up the bowl and figured since it was Valentines day anyway we'd go home early. From that point we headed down toward Manker Flats and made it there in about half the time it took us to get up. Overall we had an excellent time even if we couldn't make it to the top, and plan to go back to try again in a few weeks.On another note the drive down sucks on a Saturday, the road was litterialy a parking lot, it took us about an hour and a half to get down......
Pics if anyones interested:
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