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Posts tagged Mt. Baldy

Nikon D3 goes up to Mt Baldy via the Bowl

It’s been a while since I’ve made it up to the Summit of Mt Baldy so when an opportunity came along to take a day off from work I jumped right on it. I checked the weather forecast and it looked promising — sunny with nice, puffy cloud cover — just what I enjoy the [...]

We Summited Mt. Baldy!

We Summited Mt. Baldy via the brutal Ski Hut Trail. This was our second attempt to summit — we failed the first time around largely because we came unprepared for how steep the trail was and the effect high elevation was going to have on our speed. This time around we started much earlier and [...]

Mt. Baldy: Ski Hut Trail

We failed! That’s right, we failed to summit Mt. Baldy via the Ski Hut Trail stopping 1213′ short of the summit. This trail was just too steep and the 3 liters of water that each of us was carrying in CamelBak was not enough! I was basing our water ration on 4 miles per liter [...]