Maxprop wrote:


I had a similar experience on top of Pike's Peak. But after the bolt of
lightening there was one guy dead. There is a place up on Pike's called
the Devils Playground where you can watch the electrical activity jump
from rock to rock.

Are you a Fourteener bagger? My wife and I have climbed about 15 of them.
Most had significant electrical activity and we always try to be on our
way down well before noon.


We did 32 Fourteeners before moving out of Colorado, including Elbert,
Massive, and Harvard. Our intent was to do them all, but we ran out of
time. Oddly enough we only experienced electrical activity on Evans and
Uncompahgre. On Umcompahgre we saw a teen get struck and killed. He was
fascinated by his long hair standing straight out from his head. We yelled
at him to get the *%&$*& off the peak, but he just ignored us. We did
Gray's and Torrey's in the snow, same day as most folks do. I was a pro ski
patrolman at Breckenridge at the time, and part of our training was
mountaineering, which included climbing and skiing crud in untouched
snowfields. We climbed three Fourteeners to their peaks during our
training.

When were you there? Or do you still live in CO?

Max


I was posted to Colorado Springs (Peterson AFB and Cheyenne Mnt) from
1999 to 2002. We took up Fourteeners for summer fun and skied in the
winter. We had Buddy Passes for Breck, Arapahoe and Keystone each year
we were there. We climbed many of the same mountains, Elbert, Evans
(three together near Evans I think), Gray's and Torrey's, Princeton,
Pike's (many times), Lindsay and others I can't remember.

I live in Victoria Canada now.

Gaz