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Date of Hike: 1/12/08
Trail Conditions: Icy with a glazed crust & sometimes solid ice. Very slippery.
Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes with crampons-essential, Real crampons - preferable. We turned around with our cramponed-snowshoes & poles.
Comments: Very very icy/crusty conditions. Many trees were coated in ice. Beautiful, but too slippery for us especially when my hiking companion who had recently broken a shoulder took a fair tumble. This caused me to say - ok, turn around time. Crampons with foot fangs and an ice axe for self arrest would have been safer. Given that this is a fairly normal hiking trail and well below treeline - this is saying something about how much ICE there was. (We picked this hike because it was direct off a paved road; nearby dirt roads had mud-season car-eating ruts.) Beautiful day; icy trail.
Your name: VermontGal
Your E-mail address: [email protected]
Trail Conditions: Icy with a glazed crust & sometimes solid ice. Very slippery.
Special Equipment Required: Snowshoes with crampons-essential, Real crampons - preferable. We turned around with our cramponed-snowshoes & poles.
Comments: Very very icy/crusty conditions. Many trees were coated in ice. Beautiful, but too slippery for us especially when my hiking companion who had recently broken a shoulder took a fair tumble. This caused me to say - ok, turn around time. Crampons with foot fangs and an ice axe for self arrest would have been safer. Given that this is a fairly normal hiking trail and well below treeline - this is saying something about how much ICE there was. (We picked this hike because it was direct off a paved road; nearby dirt roads had mud-season car-eating ruts.) Beautiful day; icy trail.
Your name: VermontGal
Your E-mail address: [email protected]
