Old_Baldy_Mountain_(Okanogan_County,_Washington)

Old Baldy Mountain (Okanogan County, Washington)

Old Baldy Mountain (Okanogan County, Washington)

Mountain in Washington (state), United States

Old Baldy Mountain is a peak in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, in Okanogan County, Washington, 10 miles northwest of Conconully.[4] The height is listed at modern sources as 7,844 ft[5][6] or 7,849 ft[2] or 7,854 ft.[1] Older government maps showed 7,870 feet elevation.[7] There is a geodetic survey benchmark at 7,848 ft near the summit.[8] Some sources show the mountain in the Okanogan Range.[2][9]

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Baldy Pass is a 6,375-foot (1,943 m) pass about one kilometer northeast of the peak,[3] and is traversed by Forest Service Road 37.[10][11] The Golden Stairway multipurpose motorcycke/biking/hiking trail leads to Old Baldy.[12][13]

Government maps as of 1963 showed a fire lookout tower on the peak,[5] but it was not mentioned in the National Geodetic Survey in 1956.[8] Part of the mountain was burned in the 2006 Tripod Complex Fire,[12] and the area between Old Baldy and Tripod Peak burned in the Cub Creek 2 Fire in late July, 2021.[14]

The name of the United States Geological Survey 7.5 minute series topographic quadrangle map containing Old Baldy Mountain is "Old Baldy, WA".[15]

References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Old Baldy
  2. [2]
    Peakbagger
  3. [3]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Baldy Pass
  4. [4]
    Landes 1917, p. 214.
  5. [5]
    Okanogan, NM 11-10 (Map) (1963 ed.). 1:250:000. United States Geological Survey. 1954.
  6. [6]
    Okanogan National Forest (N.F.), Granite Mountain Analysis Area, Proposed Pebble and Little Granite Timber Sales Environmental Impact Statement 1993
  7. [7]
    Marshall 1914, p. 166.
  8. [8]
    "OLD BALDY", NGS benchmark datasheets, National Geodetic Survey, PID TP1368
  9. [9]
    Peakbagger - Okanogan Range (map)
  10. [10]
    USFS topo via Lists of John
  11. [11]
    Washington Atlas and Gazetteer (Map) (Sixth ed.). DeLorme. 2002. p. 114. ISBN 0-89933-329-X.
  12. [12]
    Romano 2008.
  13. [13]
    "Golden Stairway". Washington Trails Association.
  14. [14]
    "Cub Creek 2 Progression Map". Inciweb fire incident information system. USDA, US Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, et al. August 6, 2021.
  15. [15]
    OLD BALDY, WA 1:24,000. United States Geological Survey. January 1, 2001. ISBN 978-0-607-92697-2. Map 106957 Alternate ID: TWA1732. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)

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