[pct-l] Just good advice from "Iceaxe"

[Mike Chapman]

Well rack me up as a possible first,J Muir said,"Mountains dont
tolerate fools!"  I like to think im EXEMPT.  Im also at home in
snowshoes and traverse section c-l with ease with snowshoes,I think it
was 05 when me and some pals stumbled up castle peak on the fourth of
july,the trail still buried in snow. Over 150 hot dogs and buns
eaten,thanks to the power of the snowfridge. Anyway,I could always
pass them on to someone else and say,"Look at that guy,whats he
thinking?" Hike On. Oh thats not my name,its my game.

On 3/10/11, Eric Lee <saintgimp at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>>
> Anyway,I know you are a sage of the mountains,and im not interested in
> wasting your time,but if its a bigger year than it already looks like on the
> PCT,would snowshoes help you in a highhhhhh snow year if weight was a non
> issue? Thanks,and Hike On.
>>
>
> If weight were a non-issue, then I can think of all kinds of things that
> would be great to have on the trail.  <grin>
>
> As much as I intuitively want to believe that snowshoes in the spring Sierra
> are a great idea, I don't think I've ever heard of *anyone* who took
> snowshoes north from Kennedy Meadows and later reported it to be a good
> idea.  Uniformly, everyone who carries them ends up saying, "Meh."  There
> might be someone I missed who was wildly ecstatic about their snowshoes and
> if so, feel free to point them out, but I don't remember anyone like that
> right now.
>
> Eric
>
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