[pct-l] Steep Snow Travel

[Brick Robbins]

On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 8:44 AM, Gary Schenk <gary_schenk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> While my inclination would be to carry an axe in the Sierra in early June,
> it doesn't seem like there are bodies piling up at the bottom of Forester Pass.

In 1999, there was a PCT thru hiker death due to an un arrested fall
while bailing off the trail at New Army Pass.

He lived long enough to get into his sleeping bag, but he didn't
survive. He didn't have an ice axe.

http://www.backcountry.net/arch/pct/9906/msg00102.html
http://www.backcountry.net/arch/pct/0001/msg00446.html

If you have an ice axe and you know how to use it, you won't die in the snow.