The winds coming to the Mt. Shasta area they said are up to 95 mph on top of mt. Shasta. I experienced gusts like this in Winter of 1969 on Mt. San Gorgonio and basically I kept being blown down onto the ground and since I was walking through rocks and boulders near the summit it was quite painful going down so many times. So, first it was blowing ice pieces and pieces of hard snow into my face and cutting my face so I had plastic to slide down part of the mountain on the snow and I wrapped that around my face and head but the sound of the pieces of ice and snow hitting the plastic was deafening and I finally decided to slide down from the snow to a lower elevation so I wouldn't die in these circumstances, especially because I didn't find the climbers I was trying to find to make sure they were okay up on the summit.
So, 100 mph gusts are not possible to keep going in unless you are either roped to other climbers or tied with a rope to a boulder or tree for support or to a piton hammered into a crack in a rock somewhere.
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