EISPIRATEN

Shin and I did Baldy today with 12inches of new snow there, had alot of fun.

Thanks Shin..........mark


http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/576720834UbhwTM

WOW -- looks like you guys had a blast (literally)

Before Hamik and Cal-Tech guys destroy the pristine Bowl this weekend, Mark and I put some trail marks of hikers on the Mt. Baldy.
Trail condition:
Gate to Fall: Very icy early in the morning.
Fire road: completely covered with fresh snow.
Register to Ski hut: heavy snow but trail is stable except two section had small scale av. You can walk with boots ,crampon,or microsikes.
Ski hut to summit: Snowshoes is a must. Snow is soft and deep. Better to right hand side trail to straight up east Bowl. Snow is firm under the tree section. The snow is soft from 8600 to 9600. Over 9700 is firm. The ridge to the summit is frozen snow and ice.
The summit to summer trail: The snow was soft. Need snowshoes.
The snow was wet so No Glissading at all.
Ski hut to Manker: The snow was soft.
Mark and I took over Mt. Baldy summit for several minutes. It was so cold and windy. The wind from North pass the summit and turned around blew from South to summit. It was a crazy wind.


Mark is heading up East Bowl


Mark is heading to the summit.


Mark is at the summit. It was cold and windy.

Have a nice weekend.

Those photos are awesome. I can almost feel the wind and snow.

You sure captured the moment! Well done.

...and here i thought it was going to be bathing suit weather up there tomorrow! boy, was i wrong! thanks for the report and awesome pix.

Great stuff! Thanks Mark and Shin!

I don't know what everyone was doing today, Saturday... but the Baldy Bowl was the place to be!

I do not have a camera yet so i have no pix, but it was the antithesis of the day that Mark and Shin had. A Beautiful Bluebird Day with absolute perfection at the summit. We: me, Zach, Dave G and Lik2Hik climbed the still un-named chute up the center. Zoom Cwm, Norma's Couloir?, doesn't matter, but it was fun! Lots of flying ice missiles that made us yell "rock" more times than i could count but thankfully nothing worse than some cuts & bruises when they made contact.

We ran into lots of friends and familiar faces, including Rick Graham, GigaMike and Hamid. The Cal Tech group had quite the party at the summit. I missed the 4-person push-up!?! Amy and David a couple i met a few weeks ago at the hut when they were headed for the summit for an overnight were on the summit with their tent and gear having spent Friday night there and looking forward to spending tonight up there again. Zach gave them info about SGMDF.

After a relaxing lunch on the summit we headed down the east bowl and glissaded all the way to the creek (still under snow) just before the hut.

A Saturday of perfection on the Baldy Bowl!

Thank you for spreading the good word, Zach.

Zoom Cwm kicked my ass. When I was halfway up the bowl I watched as a chunk of rock broke free from the cliff above and start its downward plunge... straight for me. I kept still, hoping with every bounce that the rock would get diverted in another direction. At the last second I threw myself to one side but the rock (the size of a small bowling ball) hit me square on the thigh. Luckily my leg was not firmly planted and absorbed a lot of the impact without taking much damage. My thanks to Dave and Amy for the "medicine." Other than that, there wasn't a better day to be at the top.

TacoDelRio wrote:Thank you for spreading the good word, Zach.

I don't get it.

Zach wrote:

TacoDelRio wrote:Thank you for spreading the good word, Zach.

I don't get it.

In Norma's report she mentioned that "Zach gave them info about SGMDF".

That's what Taco was talking about.

Yup!

Hope you're all good, Zach. Don't inherit my title of rock magnet.