First Winter Rescue Kicks Off Season

[Tom_Murphy]

We actually brought wands when we went above tree line for Katahdin a few years ago, but we were coming back the way we started, and we took them with us when we descended.

Did you make the wands from a DIY link?

I have never gone above treeline in the winter unless it is a bluebird day (because I hike alone and have an aversion to risk).

Placing wands, in addition to my GPS and M&C, would be very similar to how I first learned traveled off trail with flagging.

 

[Tom Rankin]

Did you make the wands from a DIY link?

I have never gone above treeline in the winter unless it is a bluebird day (because I hike alone and have an aversion to risk).

Placing wands, in addition to my GPS and M&C, would be very similar to how I first learned traveled off trail with flagging.

I'll have to defer to @bignslow, if he still reads/posts here.

 

[CaptCaper]

Ha. Kind of ancient methods. Mammoth Cave is full of edvidence of early man using Reeds in a bundles and entering deep leaving them along the path to relight on the way back.