DayTrip
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Was just going through the many threads on the hazards of spruce traps because I never did get a pruning saw to carry on me once I learned of this issue. I know a ton of people recommended carrying a saw in one of the threads I read last year but I can't find the exact one. Can anyone recommend the model of pruning saw they use? Found a few on the various "big box" websites but they have generally lousy reviews.
And as a brief refresher, what is the "ideal" way to extricate oneself from the type of spruce traps we would encounter here in Northeast (i.e. the gnarly ones filled with branches versus the enormously deep tree wells of powder out West)? To this point I've only fallen into one on Webster when I strayed off official trail and sunk in up to my chest. Fortunately I was nearly upright and only got one snow shoe moderately tangled so I was able to crawl forward up and out of it on the branches.
And as a brief refresher, what is the "ideal" way to extricate oneself from the type of spruce traps we would encounter here in Northeast (i.e. the gnarly ones filled with branches versus the enormously deep tree wells of powder out West)? To this point I've only fallen into one on Webster when I strayed off official trail and sunk in up to my chest. Fortunately I was nearly upright and only got one snow shoe moderately tangled so I was able to crawl forward up and out of it on the branches.
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