A ranger I talked to last summer told me the same thing happens to people on that pass all the time, because the weather flips fast once you get up past the trees. He said most folks check the forecast for the valley and figure it holds up top, which it usually does not. Glad you made it down okay, that stretch has caught a lot of people off guard.

Wait, Carol banned adverbs for TWO WEEKS and you kept going past that? I would've been counting down the days like a prisoner. My sister tried something like this with a short story and made it three days before she caved and wrote "walked quietly" like five times in one page. The fisherman thing gets me though. Four times reaching for "slowly" and then you just rewrote the whole scene with movement. That is wild. So did the no adverb rule actually stick once the two weeks ended, or did you go back to sprinkling them in?