[pct-l] Self-arrest

[brick@fastpack.com (Brick Robbins)]

At 12:27 AM 10/29/02, Marshall Karon wrote:
>Where to learn - well, guess you could wait until you find snow on the PCT
>and then practice with someone else who had some training.

Not always practical.
Here is a photo of Joe Sobinovsky of the PCTA, I took on Fuller Ridge in June.

The would have been the first snow a northbound thru hiker would have
found. An un-arrested fall would have been fatal. NOT a good place to learn...

http://www.fastpack.com/brick/joe_fuller_ridge.jpg
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