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Mt. San Antonio, or more popularly known, Mt. Baldy. It's part of the San Gabriel Wilderness. I've been coming here for nearly a decade, firstly for recreational hiking to eventually treating the place as a sort training ground where I can practice techniques and snow skills for more ambitious climbs I do later in the year. I frequent here in Winter and early Spring, which works wells for me, I have more free time then and the abundance snow/ice are a necessity to keep my skills sharp.

I'm not so arrogant to call the place mines or anything, but there is unfortunately a large number of novices or straight up idiots who come here in Winter when they really shouldn't. They come in droves, treating the place more like Griffith Park than the snowy 10,000ft mountain that it is. Doing so requires special equipment and know-how, which many do not have.

As a result, there has been an unusually high number of fatalities on the mountain over the last decade. Just last December, there were 3 deaths on a single weekend alone. And that's not even touching the amount of injuries and people needing to be saved by S&R.

There is currently a ban until the 20th of this month, but by then, the snow will have melted too much that certain approaches I like to take are no longer viable.