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Post by freedomrules3 on Jan 26, 2006 9:54:00 GMT -5
they are saying that yesterday at grandfather mountain nc there was winds above 200 mph . that is some friggin gales there. be like a continuous tornado. sure glad i dont live there. it was blowing pretty good here yesterday but not that bad  |
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Post by tailnbone on Jan 26, 2006 11:38:22 GMT -5
With a wind blowing that hard theres probably alot of hairless critters running around that mountain. 200 mph...wow.  |
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Post by ncboman on Jan 26, 2006 19:45:20 GMT -5
I got to put plywood sheathing down today.  |
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Post by freedomrules3 on Jan 27, 2006 9:00:44 GMT -5
i'll bet that was fun , it had to have been blowin pretty good down that way. it sure was windy here yesterday.
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Post by ncboman on Jan 27, 2006 9:17:12 GMT -5
yeah it was real fun. I only had one sheet get away from me and it landed right in the dump truck. ;D
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Post by freedomrules3 on Jan 27, 2006 9:24:28 GMT -5
oh man i hated that. when i was framing it happened to me a few times. ya gotta remember to let go of it  . i was building a hotel once and lost a big wall section due to wind that day. off it went , had to just shake it off and go on. its a bitch tearing apart a wall you just spent hours building .  |
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Post by ncboman on Jan 27, 2006 9:37:49 GMT -5
My shoulders are so sore I can hardly move this morning.
As you can see, I'm real anxious to get back to it. ;D
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Post by Twanger on Jan 27, 2006 10:35:40 GMT -5
Highest winds on earth were measured on Mount Washington, NH - 224 MPH before the equipment blew away. I've personally been on that mountain in the winter when gusts on the summit were over 100 mph, and it's no picnic. A buddy & I were ice climbing in Odell's Gully in Huntington ravine one winter years ago and a huge gust came down and actually lifted him off the ice... pulled his crampons and ice axes right out of the ice and up he went. I was belaying him up the ice from behind a big boulder (I was out of the wind) and it was like I was flying a human kite for a couple of seconds... then the wind dropped and he settled back down on the ice. After that we bailed out and drank beer the rest of the day. Yikes.
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Post by ncboman on Jan 27, 2006 11:05:27 GMT -5
Highest winds on earth were measured on Mount Washington, NH - 224 MPH before the equipment blew away. I've personally been on that mountain in the winter when gusts on the summit were over 100 mph, and it's no picnic. A buddy & I were ice climbing in Odell's Gully in Huntington ravine one winter years ago and a huge gust came down and actually lifted him off the ice... pulled his crampons and ice axes right out of the ice and up he went. I was belaying him up the ice from behind a big boulder (I was out of the wind) and it was like I was flying a human kite for a couple of seconds... then the wind dropped and he settled back down on the ice. After that we bailed out and drank beer the rest of the day. Yikes. ;D You got a crazy streak into ya, don'tcha boy?  |
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Post by Twanger on Jan 31, 2006 19:42:59 GMT -5
Bowman - You don't know the half of it. Yeah... thinking back on 20 years of rock and ice climbing it's amazing that I'm still alive. Ice climbing is probably one of the most dangerous passtimes you can, er, enjoy. While I was never at the leading edge of the sport, I did some pretty crazy stuff over the years like climbing those 1500 foot waterfalls on Mt. Washington in the dead of winter in horrific conditions.The protection sucks and is hard to put in so you often run it out way further than you should - i.e. to the "if you fall you die" point. If your partner does this type of run-out then he can kill you too, because you're tied to him and he'll pull you right off the mountain... no ice belay will survive the shock of a 100ft fall. Big heavy stuff is often falling down around you, you've got about 50 razor sharp tools of various types tied or strapped to your body, and even a minor fall and injury may have you freezing to death before you can get rescued. This type of activity makes a man somewhat careful about learning knots and such. One time my partner and I unroped on a hairy descent because we knew that we'd probably just kill the other one if one of us fell. He fell 200ft and took the rope with him. I forgot to mention that this was at night, 15 degrees F, I had only one crampon (the other was broken) and our headlamps had failed. I figured him for dead, and had to down-climb 200 feet of waterfall ice in the dark w/ no light & with one crampon to get off the wall. Good thing I was in excellent shape back then. There's a good ending to this story... Amazingly he survived the fall with minor injuries. On the plus side, climbing a big frozen waterfall in an alpine setting is one of the most beautiful experiences there is in this world. This is one of the things that makes me think that there may be a God - he must have had a plan for me or I'd probably have been dead a long time ago. |
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. i was building a hotel once and lost a big wall section due to wind that day. off it went , had to just shake it off and go on. its a bitch tearing apart a wall you just spent hours building . 