Taken from Trails.com:
We plan on meeting at the parking lot at the ski lift at 8:30 am. We will ride the lift to the top then hike to the summit from there. From the summit we will determine if we will go back the way we came or go down another route to view an old plane wreck site. It will all depend on the condition of the mountain. With all the snow they've gotten we need to play it by ear.Three saintly mountains—San Gorgonio, San Jacinto and San Antonio—tower over the City of the Angels. Lowest of the three, but by far the best-known is Mt. San Antonio, more commonly known as Mt. Baldy. The 10,064-foot peak, highest in the San Gabriel Mountains, is visible from much of the Southland. Its summit gleams white in winter and early spring, gray in summer and fall. Old Baldy is so big and bare that it seems to be snow-covered even when it’s not. Legend has it that the padres of Mission San Gabriel, circa 1790, named the massive stone bulwark after Saint Anthony of Padua, Italy. The 13th-century Franciscan friar was evidently a favorite of California missionaries; a number of geographical features, both in Monterey County and around Southern California, honor San Antonio. In the 1870s, San Antonio Canyon and the nearby high country swarmed with gold-seekers, who dubbed the massive peak a more earthly “Old Baldy.”
Elevation: 10,064 ft
Length: 13 total miles
Elevation Gain: 3,800 feet
Post up if you are interested in joining us. The drive from San Diego is about 2hrs and 45 minutes.