{"id":871,"date":"2017-06-07T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/?p=871"},"modified":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:43:45","slug":"mount-baldy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"Mount Baldy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Baldy = Mount San Antonio<\/p>\n<p>Baldy sits [presides] at 10,064 feet. It&#8217;s the highest point in LA County, and the highest point in the San Gabriel Mountains. It&#8217;s also within Angeles National Forest.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-873\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_132409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_132409.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_132409-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_132409-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em>At the summit<\/em><\/p>\n<p>K and I met up from our northern and southern residences [now swapped] to hike this awesome mountain together in November 2015. I&#8217;m pretty sure we did the Mount Baldy loop trail amounting to 11.3 miles round trip, but there are many different paths you can take. I know we passed under a ski lift and felt super proud that we were using our legs to power us up the incline! If you take the ski lift, the total round trip to the summit is 6.6 miles.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-874\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_114255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_114255.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_114255-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_114255-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em>On the Backbone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the coolest parts of the trail is the DEVIL&#8217;S BACKBONE, a narrow section of ridgeline that&#8217;s super-steep on either side. I couldn&#8217;t take my eyes off the ground [pretty overwhelming!], and I wouldn&#8217;t want to hike this with any snow. So sheer!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_115001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_115001.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_115001-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_115001-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em>Looking down on the Devil&#8217;s Backbone<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our way down the mountain was full of epic granite&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-875\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_151748.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_151748.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_151748-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_151748-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and stately pines.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-876\" src=\"http:\/\/www.migration.globechalk.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_160047.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_160047.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_160047-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20151114_160047-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe this is LA ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Baldy = Mount San Antonio Baldy sits [presides] at 10,064 feet. It&#8217;s the highest point in LA County, and the highest point in the San Gabriel Mountains. It&#8217;s also within Angeles National Forest. At the summit K and I met up from our northern and southern residences [now swapped] to hike this awesome mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/GLOBECHALK.COM\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}