[pct-l] Re: Scary sounds

[bluebrain at bluebrain.ca (bluebrain@bluebrain.ca)]

Crazyness!

> One summer I was camping in Yosemite Valley, and decided to climb Half
> Dome with some friends and relatives one day. Left late of course,
> fooled around on the way up, so we made it to the top in the early
> afternoon. We're sitting there on the lip, eating lunch and throwing
> snowballs off the top, when we notice this sound like buzzing bees,
> coming from behind us. There were three of us, we look at each other,
> and the hair was standing straight out on our heads and arms. The steel
> post on top was humming like a Notel Motel vibrating bed. Lightening
> was about to strike any second.
> There is absolutely nowhere to go up on top, except down. We knew
> better than to touch the cables so we slipped and slithered down the
> backside as fast as we could, but it is very steep, almost beyond the
> limit of traction for our boots. The first bolt hit above us when we
> were about half way down but fortunately the rain didn't start until we
> were down to tree line.