[pct-l] Heights

[Tom Grundy]

We went on the Kepler Track about 10 years ago.  The hut warden on night
one said "you folks are lucky, the walkers yesterday had to deal with 80
mph wind and snow just below freezing."  I asked if anyone had been blown
off that trail and she said "Of course."  Interesting.  She mentioned that
most folks crawled in high wind.  We lucked out and got mixed clouds with
probably 30mph gusts most of the day but not quite bad enough to crawl.
The trail is mostly nice and wide with thick tussocks of grass on the
slopes so the 'numbers' were very low.  Seems like it got a lot more
interesting when the ridge curves south and you are perpendicular to the
wind, with the metal stairs atop the ridgeline.

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Rod Miller <rod at rodmiller.com> wrote:

> On the New Zealand South Island Kepler Track, and possibly
> others in NZ, the Track traverses in several spots a knife
> edge ridge. I traversed that track during a storm and was
> OK walking the ridge going slowly and not lifting one foot
> until the other foot and both poles were firmly planted.
> When I related the experience to a hut, he told me that he
> had at times crawled across some of those edges. So add
> crawling to your bag of tricks.
>
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