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cab wrote:Started around 6:00 and summited a little after 8:00 so the snow was still in pretty good shape.

Nice pace!!

MikeTX wrote:

Luciano136 wrote:

cab wrote:Started around 6:00 and summited a little after 8:00 so the snow was still in pretty good shape.

Nice pace!!

wow! no kidding! nearly 4,000 feet of vertical in a little over 2 hours?

There are a few folks that do it under 2h in dry conditions. I never managed faster than about 2.5h. Those that do it in like 1h45min just blow my mind.

Luciano136 wrote:There are a few folks that do it under 2h in dry conditions. I never managed faster than about 2.5h. Those that do it in like 1h45min just blow my mind.

I know someone who ran it in 1:10 (via Devil's Backbone from Manker Flat). Apparently, it's been run in under an hour.

Sam Page wrote:

Luciano136 wrote:There are a few folks that do it under 2h in dry conditions. I never managed faster than about 2.5h. Those that do it in like 1h45min just blow my mind.

I know someone who ran it in 1:10 (via Devil's Backbone from Manker Flat). Apparently, it's been run in under an hour.

I was just talking about hiking friends I know and over the skihut trail. Running it in an hour is insane.

MikeTX wrote:hiking 2 mph up a dry trail is at least imaginable for me, but in the snow? that's some serious booting. it's about 5 miles to the summit, right? of course, by now it may be dry all the way to the hut.

I think it's a little over 4 miles over the summer trail. If you do the bowl in winter, you cut some distance but it's not really any easier; you still gain the same. Right now, the trail to the hut would at least be dry though.

I usually make pretty good time to the hut but the second part takes me longer; probably due to the altitude. No matter what the terrain is, gaining 2000 feet an hour is significant.

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Anyone heading up tomorrow? I need to get a workout

Here's what Mt. Baldy looked like yesterday, on the backside. This is taken from Throop Peak.

Climbed Baldy via the bowl yesterday. I linked up a few snow patches to avoid the scree, but as expected it was well past its season. The ridge still has a fair bit of snow

Anyone been up Bear Canyon lately? How are the conditions? I would imagine that crampons are useless on the slush now, but looking for some good beta.

Thanks,

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Here is what the north side of Mt. Harwood (a subsidiary peak of Mt. Baldy) looked like yesterday:



For more details and photos, see my trip report.

Sunday, May 23, 2010. Snowed all day from the trailhead.

Looking back at Harwood.

Yesterday, TacoDelRio and I climbed the northeast face of Mt. Baldy. We were on snow for roughly 2,500 vertical feet. Here is my trip report.