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Gene used to comment on my license plate when we hiked together. PEAKBAGR, and we'd laugh as to who got it first. LOL. What a guy.

What type of contact cement would you recommend under cordura and thin leather patch?

Braces don't work under socks. Lots of great ideas here, thank you very much.

Got the Aquaseal FD and the heavy duty Gorilla tape. Do I apply the Aquaseal. Then Gorilla Tape after it dries? Or Gorilla Tape with Aquaseal on top of it?

Alexmtn and JoshandBaron, thanks for some great ideas. After looking at both, going to try the Aquaseal FD.

After a few months, the padded fabric shreds, exposing the white padding. Lots of good ideas here, just ordered the heavy duty version of the Gorilla tape. Was hoping there was some liquid I could apply to the tops. Don't want to cut collars and just leave a gaping gapped-edge if possible.

My semi-soft ankle braces wear out the soft padding around the tops of my hiking boots. After a few months the covering is worn and torn. Any suggestions for something I can put on the tops of the boot ankles to avoid the destruction? Something that won't ruin the ankle braces? Thanks

Wondering if the OP was written by a chatbot.

Spring arrives later at higher elevations.

Dave and I are still moderators. We looked at a lot of options to keep VFTT from shutting down. Upgrading membership thing is news to me.

"I could be wrong here, but I think what might be happening is the shoulder season has started.".... Now that spring is on us, we'll see a drop off in activity as the winter 'listers' wait until spring conditions arrive.

Spruce traps and tree wells produce the same results in the ADKs. I've fallen in ones where everything collapses and the sides disappear while trying to climb out. I've also had my snowshoes caught by spruce branches and been semi upside down. The best spruce trap I've experienced was high the...

The original Sherpa shoes were workhorses, the bindings were awful. The Yukons look like the bindings are solid.

When Sherpa sold I lost interest in getting the successor company to understand the problem. Kept both sets of well-used shoes until I donated them to local scout troop 3 years ago.

Peakbagger, it's the rare time I find anything you post that I disagree with. In this case, it's the Sherpa snowshoes. I did the ADK46W and Cat35W in those. The shoes themselves are bombproof but the bindings are nightmares. The lacings come undone multiple times a day, from being wet, stretched...

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Glad you got a chance to hike Overlook. I'm one of the tower stewards. The hotel was the 3rd iteration, the previous two burned. You likely know this, Overlook is home to a large population of Timber Rattlesnakes. Once spring emergence happens, if it's not too hot or too cold, there's always a...

They make good stuff. Now if we just had an REI store nearby to try it out...