Thunder Storms
What do you do when you are caught in open country with one?
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Lwiddis, that's good advice. But when we have just hiked four miles up a canyon in the Eastern Sierra, we don't have a lot of options!
Folks in Colorado often start their hikes in the pre-dawn so they can be back at camp before the inevitable afternoon thunderstorm. Unfortunately, in the Sierra, the lightning schedule is pretty chaotic -- some days it hits, some days it's early, sometimes it's late. Sometimes the NWS predicts thunder and nothing happens. Other days are supposed to be clear but they aren't.
So our options are (1) just don't go or (2) try to mitigate the risk when we are caught out in the open.
Folks in Colorado often start their hikes in the pre-dawn so they can be back at camp before the inevitable afternoon thunderstorm. Unfortunately, in the Sierra, the lightning schedule is pretty chaotic -- some days it hits, some days it's early, sometimes it's late. Sometimes the NWS predicts thunder and nothing happens. Other days are supposed to be clear but they aren't.
So our options are (1) just don't go or (2) try to mitigate the risk when we are caught out in the open.
