Grand Teton Lightening strike: 16 injured!!!!

[billcoe]

http://www.startribune.com/nation/98965919.html

 

Holy crap, sounds like one of them was blown clean off the mountain. Crazy scary stuff, hope that the last person gets found and rescued off.

[denalidave]

Yikes! Those thunderstorms roll in like clockwork in that area... late afternoon is NOT a good time to be out on a spire with a bunch of metal jingly jangly crap...

[ScaredSilly]

FYI, the last person was found but did not survive as they fell from the OS down the west face ending up in the black ice gully.

 

DD, afternoon thunderstorm are common. This storm moved in earlier in the day. One report I read said it came in around 11am.

[AlpineK]

http://www.startribune.com/nation/98965919.html

 

Holy crap, sounds like one of them was blown clean off the mountain. Crazy scary stuff, hope that the last person gets found and rescued off.

 

Climbing in the Colorado Rockies we tried to live by the rule:

At 2PM you must be off the summit and away from ridge crests.

 

Summer days would start sunny and clear then clouds would come in, expand, then it would be time for the light show.

 

[Lucky Larry]

FYI, the last person was found but did not survive as they fell from the OS down the west face ending up in the black ice gully.

 

DD, afternoon thunderstorm are common. This storm moved in earlier in the day. One report I read said it came in around 11am.

That sucks really bad.

[Mal_Con]

We were in the area (Alaska Basin top of The Wall) the day before when it was a bluebird day. High clouds moved in about 9pm. In the morning it was cloudy and cool. By 10am they had shut the lift at Grand Targee due to lightning. A boy scout troop had left the campground (Teton Canyon) around 6am intending to do the South Teton but changed to Table Mountain due to weather. There was lightning all the way back to Idaho Falls. RIP

[danhelmstadter]

yikes!