#mt. baldy

[hotmonkeelove]

I'm not only heartbroken by the loss of an actor I've long admired, but mortified that this is the first I'd heard about Julian Sands having gone missing on the mountain I grew up by. Seriously, Mount Baldy is the main feature of the skyline in my hometown. My dad would take us to play in the snow there sometimes when I was young, about an hour's drive up the mountain roads. I'll be visiting my folks who still live in the area next week. This is so surreal to me.

Time to watch some of his films again. Gothic will always be a favourite movie of mine, but now it's especially sad that both he and Natasha Richardson died tragically. He will also always remain my favourite on-screen version of Percy Bysshe Shelley and my original choice for Lucius Malfoy. (I do think Jason Isaacs was great, but Sands was who I imagined when I read the books.)

#julian sands #rip #why am i only hearing about this now? #he was beyond awesome! #so sad #warlock #gothic #gothic (1986) #percy bysshe shelley #natasha richardson #mary shelley #ken russell #a room with a view #helena bonham carter #boxing helena #mt. baldy #my hometown

[thechembow]

Photos: Snow-covered mountains

Feb. 11, 2024 - LA Times

#orgone #orgone energy #orgonite #weather #snow #california #los angeles #mountains #winter #winter weather #winter storm #orange county #mt. baldy #big bear

[el-im]

I don’t think you can find god in California

#like maybe you can bring him with you there #he’s not absent #but I don’t think he’s discoverable there #looking at photos from mt baldy #captain's log

[cranky-devil]

Evening silent hill hike

#hiking #creek #river #mountains #forest #forestcore #cottagecore #silent hill #fog #foggy forest #hike #woods #it lives in the woods #mine #photography #landscape #forest landscape #san bernardino mountains #mountain landscape #mt baldy

[littlemeanings]

#mt baldy :)

[watermartini]

Lilacs in Mt Baldy, California

#35mm #nature #flowers #lilacs #mt baldy #california

[lokilickedme]

So...last night me and the boys are watching our nightly episode of Dexter and we hit the one with Julian Sands as Hannah McKay’s abusive rich husband who ends up (rightfully) murdered and dumped in the ocean.

Twenty minutes ago I get a pop-up on my computer saying Actor Julian Sands Has Been Missing For Five Days (hiking in California) and I

Shit

I guess...you guys got anyone else you want us to do?

.

#I like Julian Sands he's an okay guy as far as I know so I hope he's alright #though at this point it's not looking good for him #Mt Baldy is a rough one especially this time of year #and five days in an avalanche area #I just find it incredibly weird that I haven't really heard much about him for years and then #he's in an episode we happened to watch last night and then today it's announced that he's possibly deceased #in the episode he's officially missing #and now he is IRL too #hold up I'm onto something here #WHO DO WE NOT LIKE THIS WEEK TUMBLR?? #who's an abusing piece of shite that needs to go missing?? #Apologies Mr Sands I don't believe you were one of them #but maybe we can focus this thing

[the-hikers-eye-photography]

Quite the View...

But behind the beauty lies some rather serious danger. The snow covered peak visible from the Palos Verdes Peninsula is Mt San Antonio, more commonly known in Southern California as Mt Baldy, and is the site in recent weeks of some hikers deaths and disappearance.

Two hikers fell to their deaths from collapsed snow chutes and at least two hikers have disappeared amid the recent storms, one of whom is brittish actor Julian Sands. As a relatively experienced hiker and outdoors-person, I can't stress enough that hiking in bad weather is folly and a recipe for very real disaster.

Now this is not victim shaming, but in the last few years here in Southern California we have had numerous stories of people who went missing because they went to hike closed burn scar areas, or hike in the middle of active snow storms. Some of these folks were rescued, some were not, and it needs to be understood and remembered by everyone who ventures out into the backcountry that there is calculated risk in this even under the best of conditions. When you do so under less than ideal conditions, the risks increase almost exponentially.

Now there are ways to mitigate these risk, but some scenarios should be avoided, even by the most experienced of hikers, and attempting to summit a mountain that has just had feet of fresh powder dumped on it is one of those scenarios.

You can't tell were the cliff edges are.

You can't tell what is solid ground and what is a snow chute.

You can't tell when a snow bridge may collapse, or even clearly identify the snow bridge in the first place.

If you find yourself off-piste (as it were), which is very easy to do when you can't see the intended trail, your chances of triggering an avalanche greatly increase.

Now not all snow hiking goes hand in hand with such dangers. Flat land snow hiking generally runs free and clear of all of the afore mentioned potential dangers, but there are still a few risks, circumstance dependant.

All of this is to say that it behooves each and every one of us that go out on trail to know what we are doing, and to take every available precaution. But more than all of that I'm imploring you all to not take any unnecessary risks, and peak summiting in very bad weather is one of those risks.

Be smart.

Be safe.

Live to hike another day.

#hiking #hiker #public service announcement #the hikers eye #safety #mt baldy #hiker safety

[allwillbecomeclear]

watching Commando again, ahhh this is so funny to me

#Mt Baldy has never looked so beautiful #i want to stay at the mountain lodge

[jessdomonique]

a lonely lil cabin in the woods

© Jessica Marie Studios (ig: jessicamariestudios)

#log cabin #cabin in the woods #cabin #woods #mt baldy #trees and forests #nature #photography #photo edit #photooftheday #jessica Marie studios #cabincore

[everythingispermited]

My cousin and I made to top of Stoddard Peak on Mt. Baldy

#hike #hikes #mt baldy #SoCal #so #ta #talk t #talk to me #ask me anything #dm me

[yo-pandra]

smol flowers

In order:

Longstalk phacelia (Phacelia longipes)

Splendid woodland gilia (Saltugilia splendens)

Scarlet monkeyflower (Erythranthe cardinalis)

Plummer's mariposa lily (Calochortus plummerae)

Grinnel's beardtongue (Penstemon grinnellii)

Cliff aster (Malacothrix saxatilis)

Branching phacelia (Phacelia ramosissima)

#wildflowers #california native plants #southern california #chaparral #woodland #mt baldy #phacelia #botany #plantita #endemic

[littlewalken]

I feel pretty, oh so pretty, and snowy and bright!

#mt baldy #snow

[cranky-devil]

Evening hike at badly

#mt baldy #landscape #springtime #creek #forest #cottagecore #fairycore #mountain #san bernardino mountains

[jwong2000]

Ride Report - Mt. Baldy Ride

72.99 miles, 6:08 moving time, 6,627 ft elevation Carrie, Ryan, Trevor, Bill, Lynda, Ron, Gregg D, Joe, Mark M., Greg M., Phillip, Julie, Alvin, Julian, Mike W., Bob. Mile 8: Picked up a few along the way to Encanto. Hopped on the San Gabriel River Trail for a short bit and turned off to Sierra Madre to go East. Mile 0: We started at Sierra Madre. There was a lot of people there for Annual Mt.…

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#cycling #encanto park #Glendora mountain road #gmr #mt baldy #pasadena triathlon club #san gabriel river trail

[watermartini]

Garrett in Mt Baldy, California

#35mm #friends #portrait #california #mt baldy