We stayed at the ski hut saturday night.
Saturday:
3:00 pm start hike
3:05 pm spark peach blunt
4:00 see bald eagle gliding and chirping(howling? barking?)through the fog
4:30 arrive at Hut
it was a party after that i dont remember
Sunday:
6:30 wake up
6:31 beer shits
7:45 pack the Baldy bowl
10:00 leave hut
11:00 check out USAF Hellcat airplane crash sites from 1946
12:00 Baldy Summit. it was about 32* with 20-30 mph winds
1:00 head down the Devil's Backbone
2:30 check out Mt Baldy Ski Lift's new reservoir(9,000,000,000 gallons! says lift operator Nick) he didnt even say "all day long" once. i was dissapointed
4:00 back at car
minutes before the Eagle sighting
sunrise
plane crash tail section
engine
east
south
north
Baldy's new reservoir
bowl
Baldy Bowl Oct 4-5 2008
Dudley, nice pic's, nice trip report.
I've been all over that fri#$%^ing Bowl and mountian and did not realize there was a plane crash.
Any chance you could give me a run down of where it is?
I see the picture comes right after the one where the snow caused the "Cork Screw Tree" to explode or uncoil. Is it above that on the ridge along the main trail? or is it somewhere between the sign for the turn off leading over to Bear Canyon Trail and West Baldy approach?
I'll bet I've walked past it a bunch of times and never even saw it!
Thanks
Lilbitmo
I've been all over that fri#$%^ing Bowl and mountian and did not realize there was a plane crash.
Any chance you could give me a run down of where it is?
I see the picture comes right after the one where the snow caused the "Cork Screw Tree" to explode or uncoil. Is it above that on the ridge along the main trail? or is it somewhere between the sign for the turn off leading over to Bear Canyon Trail and West Baldy approach?
I'll bet I've walked past it a bunch of times and never even saw it!
Thanks
Lilbitmo
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Dudley Heinsbergen
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they are easiest to find if you are heading DOWN on the trail towards the ski hut from the top of baldy.
-once you get down to the first flat part of the trail (maybe 300-400 vertical feet below the summit) there is a good campsite to your left. and behind that is a flat-topped cliff overhanging the bowl.
-head south past the campsite and veer right down your first little canyon wash.
-the first artifact is the engine and debris continues to show up at the bottom of the wash until you get down to about 9000ft
there are 2 hellcat planes that crashed in the 1940's
the top of the west bowl is at 8900ft.(pass just above the spiral split tree) if you are down to this youve gone too far down
-once you get down to the first flat part of the trail (maybe 300-400 vertical feet below the summit) there is a good campsite to your left. and behind that is a flat-topped cliff overhanging the bowl.
-head south past the campsite and veer right down your first little canyon wash.
-the first artifact is the engine and debris continues to show up at the bottom of the wash until you get down to about 9000ft
there are 2 hellcat planes that crashed in the 1940's
the top of the west bowl is at 8900ft.(pass just above the spiral split tree) if you are down to this youve gone too far down
How about someone marking the location with Acme Maps?
If Patrick of all people hasn't seen the wreck, I have to assume it's not that easy to find.
If Patrick of all people hasn't seen the wreck, I have to assume it's not that easy to find.
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