[pct-l] Steep Snow Travel

[ned at mountaineducation.org]

Wow. Couldn't agree more! 

I was just relaying to the Forest Service that the number of inexperienced
people about to swarm Inyo, alone, this spring and summer is going to
skyrocket. The PCTA anticipates somewhere around 3,000 permits issued this
season and with 70% being novices, that will be 2,100 very foolish people
trying to hike on steep snow with "tennis shoes" and cross swollen creeks
where the trail does because to search for a safer crossing will only get
them lost...

Yes, happens every year and we're screaming to get words of wisdom out.


Ned Tibbits, Director
Mountain Education, Inc.
ned at mountaineducation.org 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pct-L [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Stephen
Adams
Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 7:26 PM
To: pct-l at backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Steep Snow Travel

Yeah, I feel your pain.  I have tried to teach people what I believe to be
proper "hiking pole etiquette".  It aint easy.  Folks just don't seem to
want to listen.  There was once upon a time when I just got up to the Muir
Hut and there was a lady all bloody and beat up cause she had been using
poles in talus and they tripped her up and she took a bad header into the
rocks.  IT's pretty simple.  In talus and steep slippery snow... put the
poles away, at least carry them on one hand.  When I have more time I'll
make my shpeel on the subject, but I have been using hiking poles for almost
twenty years because of bad foot issues.  But I have a strong belief that
there is a right way and wrong way to use them.
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