[pct-l] Heights

[Ned Tibbits]

Sabrina, if your snow skills are minimal, hang back in the herd and let everybody ahead of you stomp in a good boot-track in the snow so your chances of a slip and fall are less. Forester is just the first, steep pass. If you have your snow skills down and have both traction aides on boots and self-arrest device, anytime after May 1st is good. 

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> On Dec 8, 2017, at 08:38, Carl Siechert <carlito at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Shroomer:
> 
> For hikers concerned about pack weight, wouldn't a lightening magnet be a
> good thing? Seems like that'd allow you to go over the pass like greased
> lightning.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Scott Williams <baidarker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Don’t camp in the bowl just at the base of the south face as it is a
>> lightening magnet. I know three of us who did so over the years on
>> different occasions and all of us thought our lives would be over before
>> the end of the night. You’re above timberline and it’s dangerous to stay
>> over night up there in those bowls. As for the day time, usually there are
>> foot prints in the snow across the chute and it is much less difficult than
>> Mather Pass in a normal year. If the monsoonal patterns have begun, usually
>> in July, then the afternoons are lightening prone so try and do it in the
>> morning. But if you’re doing it in June as so many thrus are, then you have
>> a good shot at it all day. But be cognizant of the weather for all the High
>> Sierra passes.
>> 
>> Shroomer
>> 
>> On Fri, Dec 8, 29 Heisei at 6:25 PM Sabrina Harrison <
>> troopharrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey friends!
>>> 
>>> Let’s talk about Forester Pass. Tell me stories that’ll make my fears go
>>> away -
>>> 
>>> I’ll start you off -
>>> 
>>> “Ah, it’s all tricks of the camera”
>>> “Not as bad as it looks”
>>> “You can pay a local to knock you out and carry you across it on a
>> donkey”
>>> 
>>> ~GoGo the section hiker, creeping north
>>> 
>>> 
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