{"id":560,"date":"2010-09-21T12:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2010-09-21T12:26:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:26:05","slug":"old-baldy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"Old Baldy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In preparation for an ascent of Mount Whitney, I twice went up the summit of the local 10,000 footer, Mount San Antonio, also known as Mount Baldy or Old Baldy. This is a nice fairly demanding hike that helped me get into shape for the much larger climb I would be doing in a few months. On both trips, I brought my photo gear to capture beautiful images along the way and also just to have some extra weight for conditioning.<\/p>\n

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Old Baldy destroying clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of particular note on the first trip were the crazy cloud patterns. I watched as clouds passed over the summit and were seemingly destroyed by the crazy air currents circulating overhead. It reminded me of a photo by the famous Galen Rowell called Split Rock and Cloud (you can see a copy at amazon on a poster here<\/a>). Having seen a print of this picture in person, I had always pondered the clouds, and even thought they were somehow unreal. But, here on the slopes of Mount Baldy I was witnessing the same phenomenon right before my eyes. I set up the camera on my tripod and captured a little video of the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

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The wind and cloud patterns also produced a couple of UFOs over Mount Harwood.<\/p>\n

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UFOs over Mount Harwood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Crazy
Crazy Clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking
Looking north-ish from Old Baldy's summit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Mountain Moment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the second trip up I captured this couple sitting by the Sierra Club Ski Hut enjoying the mountain environment.<\/p>\n

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Mountain wildflowers and creek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second ascent also yielded some nice wildflower displays<\/p>\n

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On the Devil's Backbone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And finally a quick shot of the Devil’s Backbone section of the trail from the ski lift. Climbing Baldy allows for a diverse selection of mountain landscapes, and a big broad summit where you can hang out and eat lunch. It’s a strenuous enough workout to help get you into mountaineering shape and I will be going back again and again next summer for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some images of two trips up to the the top of Mount San Antonio (Old Baldy), including crazy cloud formations and wildflowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-county"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kurtlawson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}