The girls are back in Glasgow with my parents for the week. Time for another relaxing aggressive hike.
Katie and I went back up Baldy — published as 8 miles round trip, 4,300 feet of gain — this time with a bit more tact: right amount of water, a fancy sun shirt, protein bars.
Still a contested name, as I mentioned last year — but this time we kept going past the register box to the next bald spot along the ridge. A bit higher, closer to Ross Peak. From town the two of them look like a pair of bald camel humps — meanwhile the “official” Baldy Mountain, a mile further north, is covered in trees with a rock scramble to its actual summit. Not bald at all, and you’d never even notice it. Looking back:
Peloton tried to keep up. Not accurate, but it logged 13.88 miles, 5,297 feet of gain, and a little over five hours. GPS on a ridge does what GPS on a ridge does.
Fun trip.. looking forward to the next one.