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14 May 2008 09:00
How do I navigate in blizzard conditions?
By Anonymous
Spindrift and windblown falling snow will severely affect your vision, making navigation and even the simple task of looking at a map extremely difficult. The solution is ski goggles. You can tuck them away in your rucksack top pocket ready for use when you are out in the hills in winter. And don’t think this is an issue just for the big hills because you can get caught out just the same on modest heights and moorland.
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Flying_Duck says
Re: How do I navigate in blizzard conditions?
Check that you have no metal nearby, and then trust your compass 100%
26 August 2008 11:45
Anonymous says
The phantom anonymiser has struck - the last post was from me. Andy Say
The phantom anonymiser has struck - the last post was from me.
Andy Say
26 August 2008 10:13
LostMe said: If you lack skills or confidence to be out in white out conditions, stay home you have no business being on the hills in winter conditions ------ End Quote ------ Harsh - but maybe fair. How long are you proposing to sit it out in this blizzard? (Anyone old enough to remember the 'Cairngorm Tragedy'?) If you can navigate competently you can navigate in bad weather - you do the same things but very slowly and you double and triple check your decision making, If there's a team of you its easier; if you're on your own it takes quite a lot of mental toughness. You do it small increments and need to have faith in your ability to follow a bearing and measure distance through pace count. It may well be that crawling is the only way to make progress in extreme wind. There is a limit to just how far you can go but even the ability to fight a couple of kilometers may well get you low enough to be out of the brunt of the weather.
LostMe said: If you lack skills or confidence to be out in white out conditions, stay home you have no business being on the hills in winter conditions
If you lack skills or confidence to be out in white out conditions, stay home you have no business being on the hills in winter conditions
------ End Quote ------
Harsh - but maybe fair. How long are you proposing to sit it out in this blizzard? (Anyone old enough to remember the 'Cairngorm Tragedy'?)
If you can navigate competently you can navigate in bad weather - you do the same things but very slowly and you double and triple check your decision making, If there's a team of you its easier; if you're on your own it takes quite a lot of mental toughness. You do it small increments and need to have faith in your ability to follow a bearing and measure distance through pace count. It may well be that crawling is the only way to make progress in extreme wind.
There is a limit to just how far you can go but even the ability to fight a couple of kilometers may well get you low enough to be out of the brunt of the weather.
26 August 2008 10:09
LostMe says
26 August 2008 09:57
BikerFool says
Not sure I would try, out would come all teh spare clothing (sorry ptc) and the shelter to sit tight! As Wurtz says above, unless you are in easy terrain (like you will be!) and 100% sure of your exact location when white descends; to go wrong is too easy.
Not sure I would try, out would come all teh spare clothing (sorry ptc) and the shelter to sit tight!
As Wurtz says above, unless you are in easy terrain (like you will be!) and 100% sure of your exact location when white descends; to go wrong is too easy.
25 August 2008 20:40
southwalesstroller
29 March 2009
19:25
Can I use C1 Crampons with my Meindl Vakuums? Or are they too flexible?
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