Wind

 Wind

Chills

at Beach

in Winter

I moved the deck chairs waterproof but might fly around in a wind above 20 mph. It's supposed to get 25 to 35 miles per hour with gusts of 45 mph here. Along the beach it's already pretty bad. Bad enough to blow my baseball cap from Glacier national park where we visited during the Yellowstone flooding last June. 

Brrr! Walking our dog along the beach without my hat because of the wind I wished I had brought my hooded windbreaker instead of a fleece levi denim Jacket like I climbed Mt. Shasta to the top in in 1970 

when I was 22. 

I can still remember summiting Mt. Shasta in August 1970 after my 3 buddies and I had gone to the "I AM Pageant the previous day. It was hot in town but freezing at Horse Camp Sunday night at 8000 Feet and I hadn't brought a warm enough sleeping bag not realizing how cold it can still get in August when it's 100 in town at night at Horse camp at Tree line. So, I got up at around 2:30AM and decided to start climbing early just to keep warm and made it to the top around 4 pm after a leisurely stroll up to the top from Horse Camp.

However, many people prefer to backpack their tents and gear up to Lake Helen where often there is snow to build a snow cave so the wind doesn't get you at that altitude any time of year. But, back in the day most people I knew climbed from Horse Camp and made it to the top and back in one day. However, you usually have to start at around 3:30 AM to 4:30 AM to make it up and back in one day just with food and Crampons for Ice and an Ice Axe depending upon the conditions when you climb Shasta.

There is generally a lot less snow on Shasta most years because of Global Warming just as the oceans are rising from all those glaciers and melting snow all over earth returning to the ocean and raising sea levels in extreme ways all over.

12,000 years ago sea level was 400 feet lower than now. Amazing! This might make sense in regard to Atlantis sinking beneath 400 feet of water or even 100 feet of water maybe?

Northern California is normally between the temperatures of 40 and 70 year around mostly so most people don't even have air Conditioners along the northern  coast if you are north of Big Sur, California. However, 10 to 20 miles inland it's a completely different story with much higher temperatures during days in summer and much lower temperatures being away from the ocean at night in winter.

It didn't take very long to get back down to Horse Camp after Summiting Mt. Shasta because I took some plastic to slide down the snow on that year. I used my ice axe as a brake. But, doing this now with an ice axe with a leash is frowned upon now among many climbers in regard to safety.

So, every era has it's own ideas about the best way to climb mountains or rock faces.