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To: nickcarraway
I've hiked baldy myself and I don't see how this guy did it without a running jump. It's just not that steep.

11 posted on 02/22/2016 5:07:34 PM PST by struggle
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To: struggle

Is that as steep as those trails get?


17 posted on 02/22/2016 5:10:58 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: struggle

Doesn’t look all that bad but then, there may be other places not so wide


18 posted on 02/22/2016 5:11:31 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: struggle

George Soros doesn’t have enough money to pay me to walk that.


25 posted on 02/22/2016 5:15:07 PM PST by PAR35
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To: struggle

Perhaps he had vertigo or passed out and then tumbled down. I don’t think it was a free fall.


35 posted on 02/22/2016 5:22:05 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: struggle
I skied MT. Baldy a few times...

Every year someone..seemed to die up there...going out of boundaries.

36 posted on 02/22/2016 5:23:58 PM PST by Osage Orange (Nowadays we are just Central America with snow.)
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To: struggle

There’s been an exceptional amount of snow and ice on the upper trail elevations of Mt Baldy and other 10,000+ foot mountains in the San Gabriel and San Bernadino mts.
The picture you featured is called Mt Baldy’s “The Devils Backbone”.
The ice currently there is bad, and the trail width in no more that 12 inches wide.
Suicide without at least microspike crampons and poles.
Our experience has been only 1 in 3 have / use microspikes & poles.
When you stop these winter hikers, they are utterly clueless.
The only thing to can do is bitch them out for endangering rescue workers to haul their body out, and ask them who they’d like to give contact info out in advance to notify next of kin.
Reckless jerks.


38 posted on 02/22/2016 5:28:50 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: struggle

Beautiful


48 posted on 02/22/2016 6:29:05 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: struggle

Was running from a mountain lion?

Texting?

Taking the ultimate self-absorbed selfie, tried to step backwards?


54 posted on 02/22/2016 7:24:33 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: struggle

Just add ice.

Nice photo.

I climbed the Devil’s Backbone in the winter once from Blue Ridge to Pine Mountain. I had crampons and an ice axe. Traversing the Devil’s Backbone between Pine Mountain and Baldy would be extremely dangerous in the winter without proper equipment and training.


61 posted on 02/22/2016 9:58:40 PM PST by blackpacific
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