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<blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 6056615" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>Doesn't work if you're driving the animal into the wind.</p><p></p><p></p><p>3' of snow hinders horses just as much as people. Before cars, towns had teams of horses or oxen pull rollers to pack the snow so the sleighs could slide easily.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you've got 3' of snow and 4' of tent, it's hasn't really got anywhere to fall to.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And this is why several people die every year in the White Mountains in NH. Weather, particularly in mountains, is -not- obvious. Snow has been recorded on Mt Washington (the highest peak in the northeast, and the highest peak at it's latitude west of the Rockies...) in every month of the year. Including August and July. The average ANNUAL temperature is 27.2 degrees. And yes, that's Farenheit. It will be green grass and birdsong at the base, and icicles at the time you reach the peak. It snows, but with winds average 35 mph and the highest recorded surface wind speed ever (231 mph), it ends up in Maine PDQ. Backpacker magazine has Mt Washington listed as one of the 10 most dangerous hikes in American. 135 deaths on the mountain since 1849...which obviously doesn't include the people who die elsewhere in the White Mountains.</p><p></p><p>Every year people have to be rescued. The only reason that number is at least double is because there are some very good, very generous, highly trained rescuers in the area.</p><p></p><p>Ahem. Anyways. Yeah, mountains dangerous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nellisir, post: 6056615, member: 70"] Doesn't work if you're driving the animal into the wind. 3' of snow hinders horses just as much as people. Before cars, towns had teams of horses or oxen pull rollers to pack the snow so the sleighs could slide easily. If you've got 3' of snow and 4' of tent, it's hasn't really got anywhere to fall to. And this is why several people die every year in the White Mountains in NH. Weather, particularly in mountains, is -not- obvious. Snow has been recorded on Mt Washington (the highest peak in the northeast, and the highest peak at it's latitude west of the Rockies...) in every month of the year. Including August and July. The average ANNUAL temperature is 27.2 degrees. And yes, that's Farenheit. It will be green grass and birdsong at the base, and icicles at the time you reach the peak. It snows, but with winds average 35 mph and the highest recorded surface wind speed ever (231 mph), it ends up in Maine PDQ. Backpacker magazine has Mt Washington listed as one of the 10 most dangerous hikes in American. 135 deaths on the mountain since 1849...which obviously doesn't include the people who die elsewhere in the White Mountains. Every year people have to be rescued. The only reason that number is at least double is because there are some very good, very generous, highly trained rescuers in the area. Ahem. Anyways. Yeah, mountains dangerous. [/QUOTE]
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