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Sorry for the overlap with SP! I'm putting on an informal, endurance ski mountaineering race on Mount Baldy on Sunday, February 21. It's intended to be friendly and is totally "under the table" so the forest service doesn't get involved, but I do expect some good competition. Come on out! It looks like 10-15 people will be there, and maybe more if you tell your buddies  Details: February 21, 10 am. That keeps us well within the lifetime of the SoCal snowpack and gives us room to move it back in case there's adverse weather. I'm not going to bother with sign-ups and all that; just show up Sunday morning at 10 at the hut (I think at least a few will stay overnight on Saturday) and we'll write down names, explain the route, and so on then. By that time the route will have been wanded and timekeepers cozied up in place. Someone on the San Gabes forum even volunteered 6 radios for communication with people around the route, so this might even resemble a race! There will be no prizes, no website, no cheering spectators. Only the unspoken respect of the grimy, breathless competitors you quash. Look forward to it!
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Hi I checked the board hits today for last year it passed 25 million so maybe by some odd chance a few United States Forest Service staff may happen to glance at the site .I would think if you intent to keep the race under the table this may not work. Thanks Doug
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Doug,
Congrats on the hit count! I should point out that this is at most a large gathering of skiing friends who are self-sufficient, not paying to participate, and not signing anything beyond a basic sheet releasing me of liability (in line with the self-reliance of skiers out on an unorganized excursion). The forest service probably won't mind, but if anyone has apropos input please advise. I do regret wording it this way after receiving a couple of concerned messages; I didn't mean to be so flippant about the forest service. I just suspect it won't care, as it should be no different from a busy weekend on Baldy when skiers are zipping around all over the place anyway.
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Hamik,
In a rough sense, what did you have in mind as far as a course?
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Doug,
I do regret wording it this way after receiving a couple of concerned messages; I didn't mean to be so flippant about the forest service.
Hamik 
The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.
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Haha, yes, I know, but then Doug's message would seem kind of weird.
The route I'm thinking of basically takes a loop around the cliffs above Baldy Bowl clockwise as seen on a map. It goes up the S ridge along the regular ski hut trail to the summit then descends the right side of the bowl (looking up). It then cuts across the base of the bowl back to the beginning of the climb up to the ridge.
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Psssst! you can always go back and reword your original message Bee, I love your sense of humor! 
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." Albert Pike
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I am a goofball, Rosie. I 'miss' a lot in the translation of subtle humor, so I cover up with my own brand of goofiness  B
The body betrays and the weather conspires, hopefully, not on the same day.
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Add GigaMike's name to the list. He doesn't ski, but I've seen him run down Baldy almost as fast as some skiers. He'd probably climb it faster than a lot also.
I wish I had kept myself in shape coming off of a great summer/fall. This sounds like fun, but I'm not into suffering right now.
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Haha, he might have company in the "running with crampons" category... one of my good friends who also does not ski sounded surprisingly eager to try to destroy us by jogging up skipping our switchbacks and glissading or running down. It would be terribly embarrassing if either of them wins!
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We are indeed on for Sunday! No promises that the route will be marked, that no one will die, or that it will be a huge event, but at least a few of us will be up there to suffer for three laps, and you are most welcome to join us.
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