I'm thinking we should get as many people together, contact the Guinness Book of world records and set a record for the most amount of people dancing on Mt Whitney!!!
Talk about an engraved invitation for AMS! Can you imagine being on the summit at the same time as these hyper-active ladies and seeing this going on?!
And Joe, you have about as much chance of seeing me dance on Whitney's summit as - well, just about anywhere else . . .
Is there a special lottery/permit needed for dancing on Whitney summit?
I would love to see the write up from the medical forms on how the injury occurred...'Well, I was dancing with 15 other people at 14,505' on a pile of rocks when a marmot jumped out and I got a little to close to the edge...
What you don't see is the scene directly after they finished recording that where they collapsed on the ground gasping for air... good grief I feel like passing out just watching them! lol
I'm thinking we should get as many people together, contact the Guinness Book of world records and set a record for the most amount of people dancing on Mt Whitney!!!
no one told me I had to practice my dance moves too! Boy, I have a alot to work on before July!
I posted a comment on their YouTube page, then Joe Quillan wrote
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Yes, you are becoming quite a hit on the hiking site. Must admit, I don't move that well at 14,507 feet. Did you get all that energy by drinking a coffee at the Starbucks on the summit:-)
and we got this reply from caitlinjacquelyn:
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ha! everybody thought we were crazy, what you don't see are the 25 people behind the camera watching us and shaking their heads! it was a blast though! and we danced all the way down the trail crest!
I once met two couples on the summit of Long's Peak. One of the guys surprised his girlfriend with an engagement ring. When she accepted, he pulled out a magnum of champagne, and everyone celebrated. Hauling a bottle of Grey Goose is the least you can do.
BTW, I never dance, but I considered doing jumping jacks on the summit of Denali.
Interesting you mention that Bob as one of the guys on our 1994 Kilimanjaro climb did about 3-4 minutes of jumping jacks at the summit sign on top. Admittedly Kili is slightly lower than Denali,but I have it on video tape & see it when I look at our trip tapes every once in a while. I have no idea how to get that part of the video on this site.
Snow in Georgia....and a LOT! You guys were all over the TV a couple of days back. The news makes it look like you're all gonna die out there from crashing and freezing to death. Reminds me of our earthquakes out here. When we have a decent one, all my buddies call me to see if I survived!
It's been colder in Atlanta the past two nights than on the summit of Whitney, which means all this snow (mostly ice now) is taking it's sweet time about going away. We'll typically get an inch or two a couple of times each winter, but it's normally gone in 24-36 hours as temps get above freezing. This particular 8-inch dump was followed by really frigid air and there's been little opportunity for melt. The city has been pretty much shut down since Sunday afternoon, so we're in to a 5th day of paralysis. Freeways and major surface roads are reasonably passable, but all the secondary roads - where people live, basically - are still appropriate for filming Ice Road Truckers. I'm in to my 5th day of being stuck at work. Hope to make it home by tomorrow!
Trust me Steve, I checked before I made a statement like that, although I'm sure the summit wind chill is a bit lower . Tonight is projected to be 10 in Marietta, my little burb of the ATL. Usually we'll have 2-3 snaps a winter with lows dipping in to the teens, but that's almost always a Canadian air/jet stream anomoly with no moisture. This heavy snow and trailing arctic air is a once-in-20-years type thing. The last one I can recall was a blizzard in 1993 - a foot-plus of snow, and a week or more to melt out.
My wife, a Minnesota native, was flabbergasted at that '93 event. That was also when she forever swore off trying to drive in Atlanta in snow/ice conditions. Minnesota is relatively flat, and has good treatment plans for secondary roads. Atlanta is hilly - steeply so, in the northern suburbs - and secondary roads are ignored by the DOT in a snow event. Hell, primary roads and some freeways are ignored. Yesterday, 48 hours after the snow had stopped falling, the DOT had only 5 lanes out of 16 open along I-75 near my hotel. Today 10 were open, but only beacuse of sunshine-melt and traffic flow.
The good news is that I managed to finally make it home from work this afternoon - no 5th night stranded!
Gary, I well remember that 93 storm. This storm is known as the Storm of the Century. Lots of info on the web about it. In a nutshell, over March 12-13 a extratropical low pressure system with cat 2 hurricane low pressure formed in the Gulf of Mexico, moved ashore in Fla. with high enough storm surge to drown a few people. The low then slammed into an artic high pressure system spilling out of the high plains and produced record amounts of snow and high winds and travled all the way into Canada, kiling over 300 people. What I remember the most, is the wind the day it moved through Atlanta. Near gale force and substained for most of the day. Mt. Leconte in the Smokies got over 60' of snow out of it.
One funny side note from this. My wife at the time who was from Anchorage had invited her best friend from Anchorage down for some nice southern sunshine and tour of some of the nice southern homes here. She got in the day before the storm hit. No sunshine, no tour. Weather in Anchorage was nicer than here.
And Steve, don't worry about Gary being stranded at work. What he didn't tell you was his workplace is only a stones throw from Hooter's Headquarters.
I remember those winds, John. Barb and I were going be married in a couple of months, and she had only been in Atlanta less than a year. I recall her standing at the window while that blizzard raged just shaking her head and swearing she had not seen anything worse growing up in Minnesota. And this was mid-March, when Atlanta is normally popping with spring buds and 70-degree weather.
Less than three months later, the week of our wedding, temps were well over 100 and the heat index in excess of 130. First trip South for most of her family from Minnesota, and they thought they'd been transported directly to hell. Two years later her parents came for a vist, and their first night in town Hurricane Opal blew through and wreaked havoc everywhere. The next year, when Minnesota family worked up the courage to try again just prior to the '96 Olympics, we had a some massive summer storms with tornadoes touching down all over the place. That particular trip they enjoyed 3 different days with the local tornado sirens going off, scaring the crap outta them. Been a long time since my wife's family from Minnesota has come calling . . .
And the Hooters HQ was snowed out all week as well, so it was a ghost town. Just wasn't my week, man.
The Weather Channel HQ and studios are located about a mile from the hotel I manage. It's always funny watching them report on a weather event in Atlanta - they all toss off streets and neighborhoods with a much greater degree of detail than their normal reporting. I'll never forget the extensive flooding in Atlanta last year - Jim Cantori spent 3 days reporting from a rowboat near his condo complex in the Vinings area, and you would have thought it was a Cat 5 hurricane from his breathless intensity.
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. Tonight is projected to be 10 in Marietta, my little burb of the ATL. Usually we'll have 2-3 snaps a winter with lows dipping in to the teens, but that's almost always a Canadian air/jet stream anomoly with no moisture. This heavy snow and trailing arctic air is a once-in-20-years type thing. The last one I can recall was a blizzard in 1993 - a foot-plus of snow, and a week or more to melt out.