Mt Baldy Winter Pics (and some other favorites)

[pnoom]

Hey people. I thought, since I'm new here, I would share some of my collection of cool and interesting photos of some of my favorite ski areas.

Most of them are pictures of Mt. Baldy (because Baldy just looks so cool!), but I've included some others for fun.

I can't take credit for taking any of the pictures, but I did clean them up, balance the colors, and brighten the really dark ones in photoshop. Plus, they are just really cool pics, especially if you are familiar with these resorts and runs.

For the aerial satellite photos, I used this amazing site called http://www.terraserver-usa.com/. There you can simply type in an address and it gives you a large satellite photo of your input address and the surrounding areas. You can zoom in to 500 actual meters of picture width, so it allows you to see things pretty close, especially large objects. With ski areas, it's a breeze. You can spot the bigger area's runs even when the resolution is very zoomed out. I used a progam called Screen Grab Pro to copy the pics into photoshop, and there I assembled different high res shots together to make a nice aerial view of the entire resort(s).

Anyways, check them out. I love these pics, personally.

-K.C.

 

[Tony Crocker]

Baldy pics from the only decent weekend of the past 3 seasons: http://216.250.243.13/discus2/messages/ ... 1078296771.
And from the 7-foot storm of Feb. 11-13, 2001: http://members.aol.com/BACrocker/bldy2141.htm .

The "Baldy Chute" pic is the intermediate Robin's Run.

The Baldy-behind-downtown L.A. is classic shot. I've seen that view several times while driving the eastbound Santa Monica Freeway just west of the Harbor Freeway. I'm not sure where else you would get that view unobstructed.

It makes sense that satellite photos would pick out ski areas easily, just as I found Monarch while flying home from NYC last week.

I have not ever skied Mt. Rose, but the steep undeveloped area between the Mt. Rose and Slide Mt. terrain pods will be open to skiers for the first time this season. That's why I'm tempted to check it out on the NASJA weekend at Northstar in January.

 

[Admin]

I enjoyed Mt. Rose myself a few years back, but even then you'll note from that story that I noted the potential from adding The Chutes to the in-bounds terrain.

 

[pnoom]

Yeah, I definitely have to check out the Chutes at Mt. Rose this year. I always wanted to drop in, but I always heard horror stories about people getting arrested, and it's not like it's hidden or anything; you'd get spotted from drivers on the HWY in a second.

Anybody here done the Chutes? I'm sure it's a great litte area, from the looks of it. It's the type of terrain the is just asking to get skied/ridden. Mother nature made her own designated trails, it would seem. A similar phenomenon happened with San Gorgonio as well; from the back of Bear or Summit in Big Bear, Gorgonio looks like a huge, Mammoth-style resort already; with clear chutes cut out and everything.

I really need to hike up there sometime, I've wanted to ski that mountain since I was 5 years old.

 

[Tony Crocker]

I scanned a few Mt. Baldy pics from May 31, 1998. This was the day I got to ski the proposed Stockton Flats expansion area with the truck shuttle back to the Notch. Mt. Baldy ski area had about 350 inches snow in that big El Nino year, the last 2 feet falling May 12-13.