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Mt. Baldy Ski Vacation Experience
If your flight comes in to Southern California's Ontario Airport, you're already most of the way there. Halfway to where? Just the best, most radically intense ski experience in all of Southern Cal, that's all! Mt. Baldy Ski Resort, situated west of San Bernardino, is practically at the doorstep of all the fantastic attractions that Southern Cal has to offer! And before we go much further, you've got to know: Mt. Baldy is just about the only ski resort on the planet where you can see bikini tan lines both on and off the mountain!
Catch it just after a storm, and you'll be skiing down virgin powder, careening down slopes well over a mile high -- while looking out on views of Catalina Island, some twenty-five miles offshore! Ten thousand foot Mount Baldy has the steepest, most challenging slopes in all of Southern Cal! That they're also the most convenient is added icing on a very sweet cake!
Nobody's going to tell you that Mt. Baldy is the very best snow in the state, let alone the nation. Skiing Mt. Baldy isn't about it being the very best. It's all about all that's unique about the experience. If you've never been to a place where you can go from a morning of surfing to an afternoon of downhill ski thrills – doing both comfortably in shorts and a t-shirt, that's reason enough to go there! You owe it to yourself to have that experience! We're not talking about a little patch of flakes at the top of the mountain, such as you might find for a few days a year in Hawaii. Mt. Baldy is covered in snow most of the winter season!
There's a backcountry to Mt. Baldy, as well as the groomed and maintained trails. Those who brave the uncharted and unknown are going to be richly rewarded. The best skiing on the mountain isn't always within a minute of the lifts... but it's far more than worth the exploration!
So far, it's made to sound like some sort of meteorological miracle happens and you're skiing at the beach. The Mt. Baldy ski experience is unique, but let's be clear: It's still an alpine resort. The mountains are no less real or Disney-surreal for that they're found in Sunny Southern Cal. While afternoons do warm up to such temperatures, experienced skiers know to dress for a blizzard, donning light layers of clothing that they can shed as the day wears on. You'll want waterproof and sunscreen too. Sun-drenched slopes can get warm enough to melt, so you may find patches that are slushy on top, as you come around from shade to that sun. But it's still more than worth it for the thrill of careening down a mountain that's nearly two miles high just an hour from the beaches!
Of course, après-ski is all that Southern California has to offer, the thousands of restaurants, hundreds of nightclubs... Alternative attractions like Disneyland, Universal Studios and the videotaping of shows in Hollywood, whale watching, the House of Blues, Hard Rock Cafe and so much more are all right there as well!
Come discover the many wonders of southern California. Experience it yourself; Find out why some consider Mt. Baldy the 8th wonder of the skiing world! Book your transportation, hotel and lift tickets today, and a Mt. Baldy Ski Experience can be yours!
