How to Predict Thunderstorms in Colorado | Lightning Tips for Hiking, Backpacking, and 14ers

[@scottishrebels]

Thank you for such a detailed and informative video. Subscribed. :)

[@garyz1982]

Thank you for this ✌️

[@aitw001]

Excellent video.

[@TheMostImportantStep]

What's your craziest thunderstorm story?

[@dharmahikes]

Woke up at about 3am in Vermont to constant lightning and tree limbs crashing all around me in my tiny tent. I always look for widow makers before setting up my spot, but this storm was turning literally every tree into a widow maker that night. All I could do was make sure everything in my tent wasn't touching the walls and covered my head and just hoped I wasn't about to get hulk smashed by a giant pine tree. Woke up the next morning and there were a TON of new trees that had fallen across trail including one within a few hundred yards of where I camped that had been struck by lightning. Never felt so helpless in my life.

[@TheMostImportantStep]

@@dharmahikes that’s wild! I can’t imagine having to deal with blow downs and lightning like that at the same time!

[@russlehman2070]

This was some time during the 1980's. It was my first attempt on Mt. Powell, highest summit of the Gore Range in Colorado. It was early afternoon, clouds were building with thunderstorms clearly going to happen. I was doing class 3 scrambling along a ridge, and I knew it would be best to turn around, but I was getting close to the summit. What finally convinced me to re-evaluate my priorities and turn around was a lightning strike, no more than half a mile away, below me, on the same ridge I was on. Perhaps it's true that God looks out for fools, as I did make it off of there alive.