[pct-l] Heights

[Scott Williams]

Of course a lightening magnet would be a great thing to carry!  I’m gonna
pick one up as soon as I find one. We’re on the TA and I’ll bet those Kiwis
have one for sale.

Shroomer

On Sat, Dec 9, 29 Heisei at 8:19 AM Ned Tibbits <ned at mountaineducation.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > 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
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sent from my iPhone
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