Old Baldy Mountain (Okanogan County, Washington)

Old Baldy Mountain
Old Baldy Lookout in 1942
Highest point
Elevation7,854 ft (2,394 m)[1]
NAVD 88
Prominence1,444 ft (440 m)[2]
Isolation4.46 mi (7.18 km)
to Clark Peak[2]
Coordinates48°35′23″N 119°57′22″W / 48.58972°N 119.95611°W / 48.58972; -119.95611 (Old Baldy Mountain)
Geography
Old Baldy Mountain is located in Washington (state)
Old Baldy Mountain
Old Baldy Mountain
Location of Old Baldy Mountain in Washington
Old Baldy Mountain is located in the United States
Old Baldy Mountain
Old Baldy Mountain
Old Baldy Mountain (the United States)
CountryUnited States
StateWashington
CountyOkanogan County
Parent range
Baldy Pass
Elevation6,375 ft (1,943 m)[3]
Range
  • North Cascades
  • Okanogan Range
Coordinates48°35′55″N 119°56′38″W / 48.59861°N 119.94389°W / 48.59861; -119.94389 (Baldy Pass)[3]

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]

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 motorcycle/biking/hiking trail (not to be confused with the Golden Stairs on Alaska's Chilkoot 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. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Old Baldy
  2. ^ a b c d Peakbagger
  3. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Baldy Pass
  4. ^ Landes 1917, p. 214.
  5. ^ a b Okanogan, NM 11-10 (Map) (1963 ed.). 1:250:000. United States Geological Survey. 1954.
  6. ^ Okanogan National Forest (N.F.), Granite Mountain Analysis Area, Proposed Pebble and Little Granite Timber Sales Environmental Impact Statement 1993
  7. ^ Marshall 1914, p. 166.
  8. ^ a b "OLD BALDY", NGS benchmark datasheets, National Geodetic Survey, PID TP1368
  9. ^ Peakbagger - Okanogan Range (map)
  10. ^ USFS topo via Lists of John
  11. ^ Washington Atlas and Gazetteer (Map) (Sixth ed.). DeLorme. 2002. p. 114. ISBN 0-89933-329-X.
  12. ^ a b Romano 2008.
  13. ^ "Golden Stairway". Washington Trails Association.
  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. ^ OLD BALDY, WA 1:24,000. United States Geological Survey. January 1, 2001. ISBN 978-0-607-92697-2. Map 106957 Alternate ID: TWA1732.

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