[pct-l] Heights

[Lachlan Fysh]

Hey Tom,

As we have a common point of reference how would you rate the Kepler on your 0-10 scale? I've done it a couple of times without concern for the heights, I expect the PCT offers up scarier moments?

Interesting no one has mentioned Forester Pass? I would have thought the nature of the snow chute crossing makes it pretty nervy...

Cheers, Lachlan 

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> On 16 Mar 2016, at 6:53 AM, Tom Grundy <caver456 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> We went on the Kepler Track about 10 years ago.  The hut warden on night
> one said "you folks are lucky, the walkers yesterday had to deal with 80
> mph wind and snow just below freezing."  I asked if anyone had been blown
> off that trail and she said "Of course."  Interesting.  She mentioned that
> most folks crawled in high wind.  We lucked out and got mixed clouds with
> probably 30mph gusts most of the day but not quite bad enough to crawl.
> The trail is mostly nice and wide with thick tussocks of grass on the
> slopes so the 'numbers' were very low.  Seems like it got a lot more
> interesting when the ridge curves south and you are perpendicular to the
> wind, with the metal stairs atop the ridgeline.
> 
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Rod Miller <rod at rodmiller.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On the New Zealand South Island Kepler Track, and possibly
>> others in NZ, the Track traverses in several spots a knife
>> edge ridge. I traversed that track during a storm and was
>> OK walking the ridge going slowly and not lifting one foot
>> until the other foot and both poles were firmly planted.
>> When I related the experience to a hut, he told me that he
>> had at times crawled across some of those edges. So add
>> crawling to your bag of tricks.
>> 
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