[JoeProBono]

[taxcontrol]

14ers are not for the faint of heart .... or faint of legs ... or faint of lungs .... you get the picture.

[NeverForgetBataan]

I’m searching for that old logo that the electric companies used. It looked like a little man made out of electric arcs.

I think they called him Reddy Kilowat.

[Larry Lucido]

What really sucks is that, while the odds of getting struck by lightning are greater than that of winning the lottery, the odds of both happening must be infinitesimal.

The best this hiker can say is that the chances of getting struck again are also infinitesimal.

[dirtboy]

Brandon Baker, 31, of Princeton, Minn., said he was atop the 14,259-foot summit of Longs Peak when a storm rolled in Wednesday and he lost consciousness shortly after spotting lightning bolts, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported Friday.

Figured he was an out-of-stater.

Locals know you need to start by 5am, and have summitted and be back below treeline by noon at the latest to avoid the inevitable afternoon thunderstorms you can get on a 14'er.

I've turned around on a hike at 11 am because I didn't like the way the clouds were building.

[Proud2BeRight]

That’s a great hike but be off the top by about noon.

[TigersEye]

"The next thing I knew, I woke up the next morning," Baker said.

He's been infused with the spirit of Yogi Berra!

[Grammy]

Mr G climbed to the top of Grand Teton. They did it in 2 days, camping overnight at a saddle, so they could start the hard ascent at 3 am. They wanted to be at the top and back down by noon to avoid any possibility of storms.

Mr G’s brother saw someone killed by lightning on a mountain.