Back in '83 I was leading an eclipse group to Indonesia and we stopped in Hawaii en route. Part of the itinerary had us driving up Mauna Kea. At the summit as we walked from observatory to observatory we found ourselves being snowed on. Once safely inside one of the buildings one of our party remarked "Why couldn't we have gone to someplace warm like Hawaii?". :) patrick On 05 Jan 2009, at 10:40, M Wilson wrote:
I was on top of the mountain on one of my trips to Maui a few years ago. It may be named as a House of the Sun, but when we were there, (go to this page on the SLAS Site: http://www.slas.us/gallery/profiles/mikew/1-Haleakala%20Maui%20Sunset.jpg ) the temperature was in the 30's and a cold wind kept bringing in the fog - the antithesis of what one would expect would be the environment for Helios's dwelling.
I was so thankful that we had read the travel guides prior to arriving in Hawaii as we were prepared with our parkas, while all the rest of the tourists were hugging their arms to their bodies while shaking all over, trying to keep warm.