[pct-l] Advisability of snow shoes in June

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

Jeff & I used similar snow shoes this winter up in Mammoth (out of Tamarack Lodge).  They were a blast, and we found it as easy as walking to use them.  We hiked all over the woods in the snow, not limited by trails -- we could traverse just about everything out there without post-holing.  I really missed the snow shoes when we switched to cross-country skis, and I had to take them off to, well, color the snow.  Without the snow shoes, I was sinking in up to my waist. 

We did have to use some special shoes to go with the snow shoes; if a person were going to use the snow shoes for their thru-hike, this "special" shoes issue should be examined.  

The only question I have is how would the snow shoes behave in the snow if I was carrying 25 pounds of extra weight (we weren't wearing backpacks when snow shoeing).  Perhaps the impact would not be that great, but before buying my own pair, I want to find out if there are different sizes of shoes for different body weights, and would factor in my all-in weight with pack.  

-=Donna Saufley=-
A recent snow shoe convert

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Moorehead <jeffmoorehead1@cox.net>
Sent: Apr 20, 2005 1:23 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Advisability of snow shoes in June


Here's a pair of ultralight "running snowshoes". seems like this might speed 
things up through the So Cal snow (slushy, postholing might be avoided). I 
haven't used them, but I didn't see any other responses to this question so 
I would be curious to the pros and cons of using these ulktralight 
snowshoes...

http://store.yahoo.com/snowshack/redrunracsno.html 

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