3,350ft gained, about 9miles RT, and 6 hours car to car. Mt Baldy East chutes. (Bald Mountain) I was originally going to venture around Kelso Mt with Brennan Metzler but plans fell through and last minute I got ahold of Frank Bowman and locked in some plans to head up to Baldy. We met up at Blue Moon at 630 with Frank's new coworker Dan, and headed en route to French Gulch. Onward and upward we went up the Gulch Rd passing beautiful cabins and getting glimpses of our intended route and line.
We reached treeline within about an hour and a half. We then hiked up the trail until about 1/2 a mile from the pass and cut up and right to gain the ridge. From there we hiked up the ridge until we contoured back north and eventually found ourselves on the summit at 13,700ft.
Three and a half hours after leaving the car we found ourselves standing atop Mt Baldy. After a quick refuel and transition we hiked down about 100ft or so to the top of our line. The top portion of the line was decent with the middle choke pretty variable but once in the chute proper we enjoyed some great turns down.
We ended up skiing about 1700ft vertical until we transitioned once more and started our hike back out. Another great day in the hills!! Let it snow, let it snow!!