Big Baldy Summit

Walter, Jeffry, Nutmeg and I braved the questionable forecast to make an assault on Big Baldy, the Lindon, UT one. We left the parking lot shortly after 7:10am. Though some bailed out of the expedition because of a fear of mud, the trail up had very little. We reached the saddle about 9:20am. There was quite a bit of snow there and tall banks of it sporadicly covered the trail leading up to the summit. We made the 8756 ft summit at 10:04am. There wasn't much of a view at the top due to clouds and it was quite cold so we took a few photos and headed back down about 10:10am. Jeffry visited a geocache near the peak and placed a new cache further down the mountain. We kept a fairly good pace on the way down and made it to the parking lot at 12:28pm. There was a little bit more mud but it never presented much of a problem and never caked on our shoes. The trail is ok but long sections have a serious erosion problem and you are hiking in a trench up to several feet deep. My big feet kept hitting the sides on the way down so I walked on the grass banks when possible. I much prefer the Squaw Peak trail. The hike ended up measuring 7.4 miles in all and we ended up gaining 3325 ft in elevation.

GPS Tracks: kml gpx

Photos: Mike's