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For Mt Baldy, you may be fine with just warm clothes and a solid idea of a safe route (I'd recommend go straight up the ski area or take the lifts and follow the ridge NW to the peak). It's not terribly steep, though depending on how the snow is settled you may have a slippery narrow ridge to straddle. The standard extra equipment for snow (snow. Not glacier, not ice) travel is an ice axe & crampons, as you hopefully have heard, and if the mountain is thoroughly covered with a lot of consolidated (packed, firm, slippery) snow I'd take them. You may want to take them anyway (if money isn't an issue) just to familiarize yourself with this basic equipment. You can look up what these are for. There's a lot of variations to choose from, but for basic walking on up to 45° non-icy slopes a single longish/straight handled ice axe and basically any crampon that fits your shoes will do fine.
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lavaca posted:This is probably better advice than mine if you are actually climbing a mountain with steep open slopes and not just following an uphill trail through the woods. I disagree, ice axe + crampons won't help in an avalanche or if he starts to freeze to death 
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Congrats man, well done!
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