| Location: | Mount Baldy, CA, USA |
| Description: |
Description?! Its not fit for
a Mountain Goat, not even a
Himalayan Yak! The "Baldy
Peaks 50K" ultrarun starts & finishes at
Ice House Canyon, at/near the
intersection of Ice House Canyon & Mt. Baldy Road, located in Mt. Baldy, California. So, describing
this ultrarun course route
map. This ultrarun starts at
an elevation of 5000 ft. Next
, I am running on a descenting grade to Baldy
Village (elevation 4200 ft.).
I'm at 4,200 ft. elevation
Baldy Village, I suddenly
take a right turn and I run
up the ascenting incline grade
when I reach Bear Flats
(elevation 5560 ft.). Then I
keep climbing on up this treacherous suicidal catwalk mtn. goat run until you reach
the highest summit point of
Mt. Baldy (elev. 10,064 ft.)!
So, at the highest point at
Mt. Baldy, next my feet slip-slide down the suicidal, neck breaking, ankle fractureing, patella busting, descent with all the slippery mtn. dirt and loose geological rocks, trying to keep my balance & equilibrium! So, from 10,064
ft. elevation down to 7,800 ft. elev. at Baldy Notch. At
Baldy Notch I will see the
famous Notch Restaurant, and
to the left of the Notch
Restaurant is the ski lifts.
From Baldy Notch (7,800 ft.)
I keep running down the snake
-winding route until I reach
a place named Manker Flat
(elev. 6000 ft.). Then I do
a U-turn or turnaround or an
aboutface climbing until I see the the Sierra Trail sign
and I make a left. They use
to have a book to sign in and
give your name etc., maybe
they still do. Then I run up to the Sierra Club Hut (elev.
8,200 ft.), and I keep running up until I finally
reach the Mt. Baldy summit
the second time!! Then the same exact route downhill and
the second time I reach Baldy
Notch (elev. 7800 ft.). Then
from Baldy Notch I take this
other trail route to Thunder
Mountain (elev. 8,587 ft.).
Then I turnaround and go back the exact same way to Baldy Notch. Then downhill elevation descent to Manker Flat (6000') and continuing
downhill to Ice House Canyon
(elev. 5000')! A more precise accurate distance for
this mapped course route ultrarun would be 32.14 miles! |
| MIKE DIPIPPO |
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