Discussion about winter adventure sports in the Sierra Nevada mountains including but not limited to; winter backpacking and camping, mountaineering, downhill and cross-country skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, etc.
And he is very fast, and very fierce! He'll get a mouthful of Bear's throat fur/skin and just hang on... and Bear never minds.
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David, you asked about the intense sun, and it's a pertinent question for us. This trip Lizzie brought a stick of chapstick which it turned out, had no SPF qualities. She suffered the interesting symptom of swelling lips- looked like a Hollywood "lip-job" gone wrong! It was so weird looking that she would not let me take a picture of it for posterity. Went down only after two full days out of the mountains. Never again- read those labels.
Re. the eyes, I have a pair of very dark "glacier glasses" that I wear when conditions are really bright, and a second pair of wide and deep "solar shield" sunglasses which I wear early and late, and whenever the light is not too intense, because these fit over my distance glasses so much better than the others do. we are very careful with our eyes- temporary snow blindness is a dreadful experience, which I luckily have only experienced vicariously through my less careful partners. Always carry a spare pair of sunglasses.
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Nice trip! When we climbed Humphrey in May of maybe 2001 it was mostly bare in there. This is better!
Do you think the dogs suffer from the intense sun glare? I spend a lot of time with my dog skiing and doing early season snow travel. Sometimes I worry.
what breed? cataracts develop later in their life. Bubba's came on at 12. Pretty sure from sun. I'm expecting the same given my past of sun exposure.
Maybe start a new thread on Dogs in the campfire area.
Harlen wrote:"This trip Lizzie brought a sick of chapstick which it turned out, had no SPF qualities. She suffered the interesting symptom of swelling lips- looked like a Hollywood "lip-job" gone wrong! It was so weird looking that she would not let me take a picture of it for posterity. Went down only after two full days out of the mountains. Never again- read those labels.
