Spring on a Midsummer Day at the San Gabriel Mountains
It is like spring on a midsummer day at the southern portion of the Mount San Antonio. The portion of the San Bernardino National Forest where the San Antonio Ski Hut is built does not go with the Old Baldy nickname of Mount San Antonio. Mount Baldy or Mount San Antonio is the tallest of the several mountains of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. At 10,064 ft. elevation, San Antonio hairs had all been plucked out and could not grow it back. The other mountains in the San Gabriel Mountains are Iron Mountain, Dawson Peak, Pine Mountain, Mount Harwood and Wright Mountain, Mount Baden-Powel among others. The San Antonio Ski Hut was first built in 1935. It burned down in 1936 and was rebuilt the following year. The 79-year old wooden structure was conceptualized by Dr. Walter Mosauer, a professor of zoology at UCLA who was also a skiing enthusiast. The ski hut was built by the Ski Mountaineers Section a year after the group was f...