They said they got within 50 feet of the hut at the top and lightening was striking everywhere! So they came down.
50 feet before relative safety and they turned around? The hut is the safest place up there since they installed the massive lighting rods and cables. The signs don't say so, but if you're up there, that's where I would go (sitting on insulation, away from anything metal inside the small room). It is ironic that now that the cabin does have lightning protection, the warning signs send people away from the shelter, back out on the ridge that isn't much safer than the summit.
