This part of the ridge is exposed, narrow, and cluttered with boulders, one of which is over 7 feet tall (in the winter with the accumulation of snow, it is much taller). In the summer, the loose and slippery scree is treacherous. Sometimes, you slide your body on the edge of a rock hanging over the swallowing precipice. Occasionally, you have to climb up big boulders with no margin of errors. Literally, you straddle with one leg on one side and the other leg on the other side of the ridge. Shasta), with steep slopes running down on both sides. Part of the ridge is only two inches wide (which I call the Mouse Walk, after the Cat's Walk on Casaval Ridge of Mt. If you follow the ridge up, you will find several class 4 climbs. Coming down the first part of the ridge, the trail veers left (if the hiker goes up from the Notch, the restaurant) and cuts through the mountainside, while the Devil’s Backbone Ridge continues upward, with narrower and more slippery foothold. However, the real challenging part of the Devil’s Backbone is not on the Devil’s Backbone Trail per se, which dodges the most difficult and the most perilous area of the Devil’s Backbone Ridge. Baldy, claiming many lives during winter. The Devil’s Back Bone, connecting the top of the hill where the ski cable car ends with the Harwood Mountain, is a ridge with steep slopes on both sides. Baldy) via the Devil’s Backbone is classic for hikers on the San Gabriel Mountains where Mt.
San Antonio Devil's Backbone Ridge - Camino of DeathĪ hike to Mt.
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