[pct-l] Snowshoes sierras june / july

[Jeffrey Olson]

Snowshoeing on spring snow is like walking on ball bearings.  The cleats 
don't grab.  Every step involves a slide sideways or backwards.  It can 
be worse than post-holing in terms of energy spent...

Jeff
Laramie, WY

On 4/6/2017 4:27 PM, Brick Robbins wrote:
> Skis and snowshoes are for un-consolidated winter snow.
>
> Neither is really going to help you much on a typical pct hike.
>   did you look at the picture of the sun cups I included in the last email?
>
> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Richard Sturm <r-sturm at msn.com> wrote:
>
>> How about cross country skis?
>>
>>
>> R. Sturm
>>
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>> *From:* Pct-L <pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net> on behalf of Brick Robbins <
>> brick at brickrobbins.com>
>> *Sent:* Thursday, April 6, 2017 3:14 PM
>> *To:* Stefan Popa; Ned tibbits
>> *Cc:* PCT
>> *Subject:* Re: [pct-l] Snowshoes sierras june / july
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Stefan Popa <stefan.popa at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> I'm wondering if bringing my snowshoes is a good idea.
>>> Perhaps i can avoid postholing in the afternoons when hiking between two
>>> passes.
>>> What do you think ?
>> I think would be a waste of weight to carry snowshoes.
>>
>> They are made for walking on loose snow, not the consolidated sun
>> cupped stuff you will be walking on. I've seen lots of devices (and
>> tried several) that were intended to prevent postholing, and never
>> found one that worked.
>>
>> This is what you are going to be walking on, and post-holing in.
>> Snowshoes aren't going to be usable
>> http://climber.org/reports/images/1400/1487-ScimitarPassSatansSunCups.jpg
>>
>> I would be interested in trying Snowfoot but it looks like they never
>> went into production
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SCtEcB4_4
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SCtEcB4_4>
>> Snowfoot : the radical step in mountain mobility
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3SCtEcB4_4>
>> www.youtube.com
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>>
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