[pct-l] Lightening risks using external frame pack?

[eckert]

Please don't ask me to cite sources, it was too far back, and I don't 
remember.  That said, the forces involved in a lightning strike are 
huge.  Whether the strike is air to ground, or ground to air, the fact 
that you might be attached to an ungrounded 18oz. of metal is 
irrelevant.  If Mom Nature decides you're going to be a conducting part 
of a strike, your body will serve her purpose just fine, adorned with a 
pack or otherwise.

However, I must confess that when I begin to hear thunder and see the 
flash, I quietly collapse my aluminum sticks and stow them in my pack. <g>

On 2/6/2011 10:32 AM, ruffwork wrote:
> Just a question:
>
> I use to use an external frame pack and got nervous about wearing it during thunderstorms.
> Anyone know if there is any research showing if you are more likely to git hit/killed with a big
> lightening rod array - er, external frame pack - tied to your back?
>
> ruffwork