--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 20 number: 2 published: 1916-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, \"Hiking to the Summit of Mt. Baldy,\" *Improvement Era* 20, no. 2 (December 1916): 156–157." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2002unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera2002unse start_page: 156 end_page: 157 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1916-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2002unse publication_year: 1916 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1916, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Hiking to the Summit of Mt. Baldy Hiking to the Summit of Mt. Baldy A company of M. I. A. scouts of Monroe, under Scout Master Willard E. Stevensen, recently climbed Mt. Baldy, one of Utah's highest peaks in the Wasatch, its elevation being 13,000 feet. The picture to the left shows the boys taking a muchneeded rest just before starting up its steep slopes. They are near timber line, as you will note from the scrub pines. On the right they are shown on the summit of Mt. Baldy, the object of their trip. The pictures were taken August 27, 1916. They reached the summit at 2 p. m., having walked over a rough, roadless stretch of mountains and canyons from what is known as the "Mouth of Picnic," a distance of about twelve miles, since 7 a. m. the same day. The top picture on the opposite page shows the boys resting on the steep slopes of Mt. Baldy. "This part of our climb," says the scout master, "was so steep that we were sometimes compelled to crawl on our hands and knees." The portrait in the center was taken from the summit of Mt. Baldy looking southeast. Note the small snow patches. At the foot of the big peak in the center is Blue Lake. The bottom picture was also taken on the same day, August 27, 1916. The snow bank that the boys are standing on is over one hundred feet long and about twenty feet deep. It was found a few hundred yards northwest of the summit of Mt. Baldy. Scenes About Mt. Baldy, Wasatch Mountains Taken by the scouts of Monroe, Sevier County, on a recent hike under direction of Willard E. Stevensen, Scout Master. (For description see opposite page.)