[pct-l] ice axe instruction

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Catherine Worth" <ceworth at earthlink.net>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:42 AM
Subject: [pct-l] ice axe instruction


>
> Hi all!
>
> Anybody know of any good, affordable ice-axe instruction in California?
>
> I’m a class of 2007 pct attempter, and not much of a snow person.  I keep 
> reading that you shouldn’t bother carrying an ice axe unless you really 
> know how to use it, so I’d like to find some instruction … Thus far my web 
> searches have come up with multi-day winter mountaineering trips that are 
> far out of my budget. I’d rather go to a one-day class that specifically 
> teaches you how to self-arrest. Does such a thing exist in 
> Northern/Central California?
>
> Or, assuming I depart from KM around the sacred date of June 15, is it 
> possible I could get away without carrying one at all? Would that be 
> dangerous?
>
> (Secretly I’m hoping California is about to be struck by a freak heatwave, 
> so by the time I get to the Sierras I can happily trek over cute little 
> snow patches, maybe constructing a few snowhikers along the way … But I 
> know this is wishful thinking – not to mention unhealthy for the state’s 
> reservoirs and aggies, sigh.)
>
> Anyway, any advice in this vein would be great.
> Thanks,
> Katie
>
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