‘It’s unforgiving’: California park officials grapple with recent deaths on Mount Baldy
by Nick Visser from US news | The Guardian on (#72XQX)
Calls are renewed for permitting to hike the Los Angeles-area mountain that looks deceptively accessible
The peak is just there in the distance, hovering above Los Angeles, snow-capped and tantalizing to the city-bound.
About an hour from the sands of the Pacific coast, Mount Baldy and the surrounding Angeles national forest have long been a wilderness playground to millions who call the greater Los Angeles area home.
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