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

[Scott Bryce]

On 3/10/2011 9:21 PM, Eric Lee wrote:
> 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.

Rolling Thunder, 2006.

> 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.

"Wildly ecstatic" would be overstating his feelings about his snowshoes.
His comment was that the were "worth their weight in beer coupons." One
of his hiking buddies was postholing a lot, and RT liked staying on top
of the snow.