[at-l] ice axes

[Slyatpct@aol.com (Slyatpct@aol.com)]

In a message dated 9/3/2001 4:09:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
wb4pan@mindspring.com writes:


> I axe you are the needed on the PCT and CDT
> 
> 

Addendum.  

I didn't have snow baskets on my Lekis, only mud baskets.  I kept the basket 
on the long downhill side so my pole wouldn't sink into the snow causing me 
to lose balance.  On the short uphill side, I removed the basket with 
thoughts of belaying if I started to slip.  Of course, the wiser hikers from 
the pct-l, thought I was nuts and that my Leki would have snapped like a twig 
if I ever had to depend on it.  

I did use my ice ax once for braeking during a sit down glissade down Mt 
Shasta.  Better then any roller coaster park, I got thrown out of a bobsled 
like run, only people size, all ready to self arrest, but landed on my butt 
in a huge sun cup!  I'm still laughing over that one.

Sly


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