{"id":113970,"date":"2025-12-30T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113970\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:37:07","slug":"3-hikers-found-dead-in-devils-backbone-area-on-mount-baldy-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/113970\/","title":{"rendered":"3 hikers found dead in Devil\u2019s Backbone area on Mount Baldy \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three hikers were found dead Monday night on Mount Baldy<\/a> off a trail with notoriously steep drop-offs in the San Gabriel Mountains, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n

Search teams, including helicopter crews, were part of the search in the Devil’s Backbone trail area that began late Monday morning. Search teams responded to a request to find an injured 19-year-old hiker<\/a> in the area who reportedly fell about 500 feet.<\/p>\n

A friend and hiking companion hiked to an area with cellular service to alert rescuers and direct them to the hiker’s location.<\/p>\n

During an aerial search, deputies located the injured hiker and two additional people nearby. Strong winds prevented helicopter crews from completing the rescue, the department said.<\/p>\n

Wind advisories were in effect Monday for parts of Southern California, including area mountains. <\/p>\n

At about 7:30 p.m., high winds still prevented a hoist operation to lift the individuals to safety. A medic was lowered down and confirmed all three people were dead.<\/p>\n

Attempts to recover the bodies were underway Tuesday. The ages of the victims found with the injured hiker were not immediately available. <\/p>\n

Details about the hikers’ identities were not immediately available. <\/p>\n

At more than 10,000 feet, the summit of Mount Baldy — aka Mount San Antonio — is the highest point in the San Gabriel Mountains and Los Angeles County. Already challenging hiking trails in the area, including scenic Devil’s Backbone with its steep drop-offs, can become treacherous with snow and ice in winter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three hikers were found dead Monday night on Mount Baldy off a trail with notoriously steep drop-offs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,61064],"class_list":{"0":"post-113970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","13":"tag-los-angeles-news","14":"tag-mount-baldy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}