It's a beautiful day. When you survive a strike! Kyle, a friend and I summited Longs peak by the loft route. On our return trip home on the Keyhole route we enccountered a storm. We were nearing the shelter on the East side of the keyhole, when we experienced the hit. My ice axe was in the right hand. There was a flash, boom, sizzle sounding (like frying bacon) the hair on my ride side of my head was being pulled up, and I felt like by right arm was being shaken, while my axe jerked out of my hand. Kyle was fine and in good position. He had thrown his axe was hunkered down. Our friend experienced what I felt, but stated he was knocked down. We are all OK. Waited it out in the shelter for several minutes, cached our axes and happily hopped on down the trail. Kyle went back up today for our gear.
