Shows here in EdHat that there’s snow on Mount Baldy. That means there’s skiing in Los Angeles. Or close enough. Mt. Baldy is the highest point in the San Gabriel Mountains, which overlook Los Angeles from the North. Imagine a 10,064 mountain on Staten Island and you get the picture.
Skiing on Mt. Baldy is a trip. Mainly, a short one. Ignoring traffic (which you can do if you leave early enough), you can be there in under an hour from most of the L.A. basin. On a clear day you can see it from nearly anywhere there too. Its the big snow-capped one.
Here’s a photo set that gathers a few of my shots of Baldy, both from the ground and from airplanes.
And here’s a post I put up after a day of not-very-good skiing there. The snow wasn’t too bad, considering. The main problem was rookie snowboarders who crashed into the kid and I when they weren’t sitting on their butts like a bunch of traffic cones. From that post…
Rules for snowboarding on Mt. Baldy:
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2. Sit on your ass, for as long as possible. |
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3. Wait for your friends to come and fall on their asses next to your ass. |
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4. Sit on your ass with your friends on their asses, for as long as possilbe. |
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5. Do all this in the middle of a trail. The narrower the trail, the better. |
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6. If possible, fall on your ass in the path of somebody else. |
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7. Have no skills. Other than falling on your ass. |
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8. When actually snowboarding, run into people. |
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9. When running into people, fall on your ass again. |
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10. Bonus: get the people you run into to fall on their asses too. |
Anyway, the kid is skiing this weekend in the Sierras somewhere, while I work in Atlanta. That’ll be fun too, but not quite the same.
