DThewanderer
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What do you do if you are out hiking and a storm comes upon you with lightning. Do you take any special precautions or just keep going?
If your a military veteran, you run up and use the lightening strike to light your cigar!What do you do if you are out hiking and a storm comes upon you with lightning. Do you take any special precautions or just keep going?
I really laughed out loud with that one! I don't think I would ever attempt that but I have a few buddies who might think that is the best idea they have ever heard.If your a military veteran, you run up and use the lightening strike to light your cigar!
Long before I was a military veteran, two of us worked for the USFS as fire guards. Got a call in the middle of the night of a lightening strike and fire so we hiked up the mountain to a burning/smoldering juniper tree. Pouring rain so we lit up, huddled over the fire, ate the rations in the fire packs. When the rain about had the fire out, we axed the char, peed on the hot spots and went home. Best fire I ever had to fight.:tinysmile_tongue_t:If your a military veteran, you run up and use the lightening strike to light your cigar!
You know I am not to sure how to answer that. I would imagine if you are close to the opening sqaut down on the balls of just your feet. Now if you are half a mile or more back I dont know if you would have to do that. My fear of being in a cave during a lightningstorm would be if it hit the opening and made it colapse, then me stuck in there. A lot of the caves I do have openings just big enough to slide in on your belly with no pack on, so in a cave like that you cant even squat. I don't know.So when you get to the back of the cave should you still crouch down? When you are crouching do you want both feet and both hands on the ground or just the feet?