EISPIRATEN

We were on Telegraph today. Baldy looked socked in. Here is a picture made from Telegraph.



The approaching cold front made for interesting clouds.

Nice pictures!

I was in the Islip area and could see that Baldy was socked in. Very windy day.

this was the view from Ross Mountain today:

WOW! A beauty!

that 2nd picture is crazy cool!

Zé wrote:that 2nd picture is crazy cool!

That's gotta be the best looking lenticular I've ever seen on Baldy!

Thanks for sharing!

munch munch munch.....nice pics!

I was up there with a couple friends... What an experience. Hit the trail just after 9:00am and right off the bat were greeted with a gigantic lenticular hanging over the summit:




At that point, I knew this would be an adventure


I've never seen clouds floating by at such high speeds. This was taken, I think, heading up the bowl after the ski hut out towards Ontario:




It didn't get any warmer as we approached the summit... Temperatures had to be in the low 30s if not high 20s, and I don't know if I even want to know what the wind chill was. Needless to say, we had the summit to ourselves (for the whole 60 seconds we could bear it):





The original plan was to descend the Backbone, but after about 100 yards heading down to the Baldy/Harwood saddle we quickly realized it would have been nearly impossible. The winds were out of control and would have blown us right off of the side, so we headed back up (double traverse! ) and took advantage of the relative protection of the Ski Hut trail.

In what seemed like near white-out conditions at times, it was one of the most jaw-dropping descents I've had the pleasure of making:




Awesome day! 8)