The Claremont Courier reports that a young man, 23, slipped on Devil's Backbone (at Mt Baldy) and fell 1500 feet to his death.
I have heard that many people fall there, especially when it is covered with snow and ice. USFS rangers in Baldy Village discourage this hike in those conditions, and they are quick to tell stories of people who have fallen. The place gives me the creeps. The knife edge. The name. The deaths.