skiing Telegraph Peak and The Girly-Man

Here are a few pictures gathered together to illustrate a day of Southern California Backcountry Skiing with Brad Harris on his split board. From the top you can see Long Beach, large ships and Catalina Island.   Thank you mother Pacific Ocean for the snow you give us! 

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Here is a good picture of the Southeast facing bowl where the Girly-Man is located, with the Hut nestled safe in the bottom right side of the Bowl (north side of bowl).

This post card -Circa 1910 was found on Wikipedia and cut and pasted in.  Mt Baldy or known as San Antonio Peak is far one on the left. The Los Angelus valley has appeared to change...would you say?!

The ridge line on the right horizon is the one we skinned out on to get to San Antonio Peak, which is the second peak in the photo moving from right to left.  It appears smaller but it taller in elevation and stands proudly at 10,068 feet.  I am continuously amazed that this is above the Los Angelus basin.

This photos are loading backwards so you will have to scroll to the bottom of this page and scroll up for a chronological order of the trip.  This is the Sierra Club's San Antonio Ski Hut which was built in 1937 by the Ski Mountaineers  for everyone to use. One can ski rent out a stay from the Sierra Club throughout the year.  Ski by it was a reminder that many women and men have trod before use and have carried with them the love of silence and BEING in the mountains.

The Picture below was skied first then we skinned up to San Antonio Peak/Mt Baldy and skied from the top and skied Girly Man and Brad Harris rode down the next chute to the left of Girly Man called Hourglass.

This peak is located behind Mount Baldy Ski Resort to the east.  Hard not to want to go put some signature turns down it when it has stayed unskiied after two Southern Cali storms in the San Gaberials.  The middle chute was the route of choice, simple because it was the most aesthetic and drew me in.

 

Back to Work for a few days! Work Hard! Play Hard!

One get really energetic and excited after working 18hrs straight!  

Early Season Skiing of One of Butch's Chute

Butch's is accessed from an out of bounds ridge outside of Mount Baldy ski area or from the snow park on the way up to Baldy.  

Greg Eiseman and I skied the chute on the left side of the major rock rib ridge.  There was hardly any snow at the 55 degree entrance so we down climbed precariously 15' down until there was enough snow to put the skis on.  Here the slope angel mellowed out to a good 40 degrees.  We skied a few turns to the bottleneck where we where forced to traverse 10' to the skiers right.  Then is was super boney and steep again where we were excited to maneuver a dicey section with our skis on.  The rest of the ride was a pleasurable 35-40 degrees.  

At the bottom we skied out into the snow park where we waited for our friends driving down from the ski resort.

Here at the snow park I asked three dudes who were enthusiastically shoveling snow onto their car what they were doing.  They proceeded to tell me they performed this strange phenomena so they could drive back to L.A. and show their esses' and chicas and then  share cervazas around their accomplishment of conquering snow and bringing it back to the concrete jungle of L.A.