Mt. Baldy Ski Resort The chairs are never open at Mt. Baldy Village, California

Why is it that last winter when you'd show up at Mt Baldy at 7 a.m. when the opened, you'd plunk down your $50, ride to the top and then find out that none of the chairs to the upper mountain were working?

This happened over and over again last year. Would they tell you when you bought a ticket? Absolutely not.

Sometimes they get the chair up by 11 a.m., but as often as not it would be mid day before anything was moving, and by that time there was nothing but ice or slush on the hill.

This place is old, falling apart and decrepit. The owners don't care, the people who work there are rude and incompetent, and as often as not, there are no ski patrollers up there if you were go get hurt, especially during the week.

Lousy snow, terrible grooming, rocks, ice, bare spots, mechanical problems. This place has it all. Stay away.