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Originally Posted by altis
I hate to spoil the fun but snowblindness is easy to get can be really serious. The sun is very strong up there since there is little muck to get in the way and then it bounce back off the snow at you. It catches out many, supposedly experienced, mountaineers. You don't want to end up like this:
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ouch
the only time I ever went ski-ing I got such bad sunburn that my ears had blisters in them - luckily I did have proper goggles, so my eyes were ok, but I never expected the sun would be so strong when the temperature was below freezing.