Colorado Thunderstorms

Just spent two weeks hiking in CO. Thunder almost every day. Just find shelter until they pass and keep going. Don't stay on the passes too long and try to do then before noon. Otherwise you shOuld be fine.

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>>840264
Yeah dude, high mountain thunderstorms aren't something to fuck around with.
I would plan to be making your descent down by the time the storms even start rolling in.... if not below treeline by then.

Should you find yourself caught in a storm... find a low spot in a valley (or as low as you can easily get to) and crouch down on the balls of your feet. If you're in a group, spread out 20-30ft from each other. Wait it out.

>Clouds rolling in on the way up the mountain to this site
>Lightning fried a microwave radio on this tower a few days earlier, POE injector in the doghouse got zapped too
>Backup POE injector already installed in the cabinet (move the cable), had a replacement radio in the truck
>not going up the tower today
>flash of lightning, nearly immediate thunder
>timetogo.exe
>Boogie'd down the mountain

Site I had come off of an hour or so earlier had a lightning shelter just off the road in the saddle of the two summits. Big 6ft-round steel cylinder on its side, wall/window on the far side, door on the front side, benches inside... sort of "cage" around the outside of it... all heavily grounded... Good to know it's there, but I don't wanna have to chill out in there waiting for a storm to pass either.

>>840264
>I've heard some say this is unavoidable in Colorado and you just have to get down each pass by 11 or 12.
Yep. They're magnificent.

>I've heard others say I'll get fried by lightening.
You will if you're not off of the mountain by when the storms move in.

I live in colorado, during the summer it storms so much here, almost every night I can see lightening off in the distance somewhere

I also saw lightening strike about 100m away from me

I wanna hike part if the Colorado trail for a week or two starting in a week. What kind of weather should I expect? My sleepin bag is 40 degree ;-;