The main point of my off the wall reply was this.
The Mountains are not forgiving.
If you were unfortunate enough to be to high
on the Mountain when this happened then you
were in dire straights and needed to make them better.
If you were in an exposed position then you needed
shelter as your first priority, getting out is secondary.
You do everything to make your situation better not worse
and it sounded like get-home-itis made conditions worse for lots
of people.
And finally day hike or not you need to be prepared to sit still
and wait out a storm if necessary. The kit bits necessary to turn
most emergency situations into just inconvenient ones weigh
very little and are well worth the extra effort to pack.
