[at-l] Glossary Terms Trail

[kahley@ptd.net (kahley)]

Sheesh...I forgot about winter hiking.
what is the term for rotten weak snow?
dang...


At 07:42 AM 4/22/02 -0400, rick boudrie wrote:
>>Death Trap (also, Tiger Trap or Tiger Pit): Any place that
>>you can climb down into, or fall down into, but with no hope
>>of climbing back out without assistance.
>
>Never heard that, but the term spruce trap is used a lot in the winter 
>hiking in the Whites.
>
>Refers to when snow covers a spruce tree but when you walk over it, you 
>plunge down through the branches.  WHen you get cauhgt in spruce trap 
>wearing snawshoes, you can get really tangled up (so I am told).
>
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