I wonder if this means Mt. Baldy is now Mt. Shasta's spiritual "southern sister"?:

http://www.sacred-destinations.com/usa/mount-shasta

Guess all the 'whackies' didn't quite float up north for the Mt. Shasta crystal festival this year around the equinox?.

Sometimes I see huge Korean groups hiking to the summit... looking like aliens with their balaclavas and glacier goggles.

Captain Beefheart wrote:Sometimes I see huge Korean groups hiking to the summit... looking like aliens with their balaclavas and glacier goggles.

Awww man why'd you have to get all racial

Ramblindave wrote:

Captain Beefheart wrote:Sometimes I see huge Korean groups hiking to the summit... looking like aliens with their balaclavas and glacier goggles.

Awww man why'd you have to get all racial

"Korean" isn't a race.

Aetherians headed to an afternoon gathering

Mountain Impulse wrote:Aetherians headed to an afternoon gathering

Wow. Is that the trail? I've only been there once, and it was in January, via the Baldy Bowl route.

Day Hiker wrote:

Mountain Impulse wrote:Aetherians headed to an afternoon gathering

Wow. Is that the trail? I've only been there once, and it was in January, via the Baldy Bowl route.

It's one of the ways up. This is a shot of runners during the annual 8-mile Race to the Top on Labor Day. The route starts at the ski lift parking lot, goes down to the Manker Flat gate and up the service road to the Notch, across Devil's Backbone and then under Mt. Harwood. The photo shows part of the last mile up the face to the summit.

One memorable Baldy Bowl climb--here's me (R) and Taco Del Rio on descent one January day a couple of years ago:

Mountain Impulse wrote:One memorable Baldy Bowl climb--here's me (R) and Taco Del Rio on descent one January day a couple of years ago:

Here is the "horrible" weather we had, on 19 January 2008:

TacoDelRio wrote:

I was thinking about doing Mount Sunflower sometime during a winter storm and getting a photo like that. If I posted it on facebook, I could probably fool 80% of the people.

Nice.

I forgot to respond to this thread, but a couple of weeks ago, on my descent, I ran into the 3rd annual Speedo Mt. Baldy hike. Comments from the guys in pursuit, were, well expected.

There was definitely more excitement than a sheep sighting, I reckon.
Doubt the kids knew that white skin and bikinis are a good recipe for the cancer lab...

Anyone else experience this?