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When the weather gets rambunctious......openmind's story time
#21093797 - 01/09/15 06:41 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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I want to hear your stories of the weather getting all rambunctious and boisterous on ya....whilst having a head full of psychedelics or not .
This past summer I went camping way up in the sierras, in this little high alpine valley/meadow that lays around 9k to 10k feet or so.


(Looking down at the lake & meadow from the peak in the previous pics, to give a bit of reference)

I went up there with my sisters and their boyfriends, a couple of their friends, and one friend of mine. One of the days we all dosed some quality LSD shortly after waking up, except my sisters and one of their friends. This would be a first psychedelic experience for my sister's boyfriend and one of their friends (I don't know of a better place to have such an experience).
The day got off to an absolutely gorgeous start, cool crispy mountain air with the lush enveloping warmth of the sun....But!....The weather geek in me knew where I was and the time of year it was, and I knew damn well that afternoon thunderstorms are quite the norm for such a place & time . I actually let this be known to everyone that it was likely there would be a storm cell rolling over the area in the afternoons....
....Spent the first few hours of the day/trip walking around and more or less blissing out, laying in the meadows inhaling nitrous. As the day went on I could see the clouds building up around the general vicinity, eventually thunder could be heard in the distance every few minutes. Like mentioned, I am a weather-geek and always aware & observant of what's going on in the atmosphere around me. After an hour or so of hearing thunder in the distance I started to notice a lot of turbulence & updrafts & clouds forming right above the little valley we were in.
I knew what was about to go down....Shortly after telling everyone to kinda tidy up the camp and get ready for a potential down pour, in a cliche fashion, there was an immense clap of thunder and huge rain drops started to drop down. It wasn't coming down heavy but these were those big ol' heifer rain drops. Then pea sized hail become mixed in with the rain drops, then bigger hail...within 30 seconds or so it went from being somewhat cloudy, to a full on downpour of mostly hail.
Everyone scattered to their tents...The hail & rain was coming down so heavy that I couldn't hear a damn thing. I knew the storm was obviously building up right above us and was likely going to build in intensity before fizzling out or drifting north-eastward. The flashes of lightening & claps of thunder were not only become more frequent, but the time between the flashes and thunder was growing shorter. I knew we were in the best spot in the valley, not out in the open meadow and not up towards the mountain peak, but rather within a stand of trees somewhat higher the the meadow...still a shitty place to be, but it's as good as it gets considering the location/situation. We should have all got into the cars, and I almost did, but I didn't .
After a few minutes everything was covered in several inches of hail, mounds of hail were piled up around the sides of the tents, big streams of water started to pour down through our camp from the mountain peaks right above us...Fortunately none of the tents were in the direct path of the streams of water as they would have surely swept them farther down into the valley.
The sound of the thunder though!...My god that sound was unlike anything I've ever felt/heard or experienced before...The lightening was obviously striking within the valley we were in and up along the peaks above us, all within 1/2 mile or so, the delay between the flash & thunder with a few of those strikes was a mere blink of an eye. Since we were in a small valley the thunder was echoing, reverberating, rolling all around us, hitting a certain resonance where I could feel it coming up through the earth beneath me...those infra-sound frequencies, frequencies so low that they can only be felt .
I took advantage of the situation and got down on a bunch of nitrous while this was all happening.... ....Between being completely awash and enveloped in the white-sound of the rain/hail coming down, and the immense sound of thunder penetrating every fiber of my being and the earth beneath me, that alone was quite something but having a head full of acid on top of it all was ineffable...I'm not even going to try to elaborate, because words fail.....Hands down one of the coolest things I've experiences though. I was so fucking stoked on what was going down, albeit a bit concerned I was going to die from a lightening strike . (Somehow my friend fell asleep through this whole ordeal, not only on acid but also through a loud intense storm, who does such a thing?) .
The storm eventually plateaued out in intensity, would simmer down for a few brief moment then pick back up again, but it lingered for at least two hours....way longer than I thought it would. I was still tripping on the L pretty good and started to feel a bit cooped up in my tent, fortunately it didn't go on for much longer.
Once the storm let up enough I was on the hunt for dry wood...the sun was going to be going down in a few hours and I knew if I didn't get a fire going ASAP it was going to be a long cold, dark, and wet night. And guess what, I did indeed find some dry wood after a 2 hour down pour. I found an old tree that was rotting out and had just enough cover around it to keep it dry on the inside...I took me hatchet and started hacking away.
Definitely an experience I'll never forget, and one I very well may have again when I return next summer .....I have a few more stories but I'll leave it at this one for now.
-OM
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Edited by openmind (01/09/15 11:28 PM)
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Re: When the weather gets rambunctious......openmind's story time [Re: openmind]
#21093832 - 01/09/15 06:54 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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I didn't really read much at all, but it looks like a pretty rambunctious place to be.
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Re: When the weather gets rambunctious......openmind's story time [Re: Shroomopotamus]
#21094087 - 01/09/15 08:01 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Wow, i can only imagine.
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Re: When the weather gets rambunctious......openmind's story time [Re: 11nova]
#21094367 - 01/09/15 09:02 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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shit i was at the bottom of the grand canyon in the early 90's when they opened the flood gates... that made the rim to rim back to rim a much interesting hike.
and fuck
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