See this trip report:
http://www.summitpost.org/trip-report/1 ... ntain.html
After the fact someone mentioned on a forum that Breckenridge had 130 mph gust that day, but I have no idea what the wind speed was on North Star.
by Scott » Sat Aug 23, 2008 3:22 am
by neghafi » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:56 pm
Moni wrote:Wind speed estimate for those of us who don't pack calculators in our climbing packs. Fred and I aborted a climb a few weeks ago, because the wind was knocking us off balance while boulder hopping. You could do the lean into the wind thing as in the first frame of this thread (and, yes, it was funny when I fell over once when the wind died back). We figure it was a steady 45 mph with gusts of 50+ or so.
by Baarb » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:24 am
by Day Hiker » Sun Aug 24, 2008 6:55 am
Baarb wrote:While i suppose this is a fairly theoretical discussion, I would think that there's a limit to how much you can physically lean forward and still have your feet sticking to the ground. E.g. at 65 degrees or so you would have to be balancing on your toes or the front end of your boots, the area of which is pretty low, not to mention your centre of gravity is no-way near them. So I imagine you would slip and fall on your face / get blown away (so to speak). Any thoughts?
by brenta » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:23 pm
Baarb wrote:While i suppose this is a fairly theoretical discussion,
Baarb wrote: I would think that there's a limit to how much you can physically lean forward and still have your feet sticking to the ground.
Baarb wrote: E.g. at 65 degrees or so you would have to be balancing on your toes or the front end of your boots, the area of which is pretty low,
Baarb wrote: not to mention your centre of gravity is no-way near them.
by brenta » Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:55 pm
Day Hiker wrote:Yes. I saw another post mentioning this earlier, but I can't find it now.
Day Hiker wrote:At some point, the combination of wind speed and angle of lean would create significant lift on the person, and the person's feet would have to be secured to the ground in order to stay in place at that and higher wind speeds.
by Diggler » Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:15 pm
by brenta » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:14 pm
Diggler wrote:2 trains start moving toward each other at time t; they are x miles apart; when do they pass each other?
by Diggler » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:37 pm
brenta wrote:Diggler wrote:2 trains start moving toward each other at time t; they are x miles apart; when do they pass each other?
They pass each other at time t+x/(v1+v2). Maybe I'm missing your point, but hansw gave v as a function of alpha as answer. What's wrong with that?
by brenta » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:41 pm
nickels wrote:If we are assuming that the wind always comes straight on, then one would have to do an alpha sweep of the human body (presumably in a wind tunnel or by simulation) to calculate the equilibrium speed, methinks.
nickels wrote:I wouldn't think that analytical solutions would be of much use except maybe for the straight up case, where someone has already calculated a terminal speed??
nickels wrote: I guess kind of the same thing that Diggler is saying above....
by brenta » Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:49 pm
Diggler wrote:I guess that a simple equation is the answer (i.e. one doesn't get an answer unless (at least) 2 values are provided).
by daw37 » Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:39 pm
by tigerlilly » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:12 am
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