Re: [at-l] Winter Trip Tips long

["Mara Factor" <m_factor@hotmail.com>]

Quick comments on leg coverings for winter mountaineering...

When you are going to be in a position where you will be wearing 
crampons and/or snowshoes, get windpants (and fleece pants) with full 
side zips.  Pants with full side zips usually have a flap on the inside 
to keep out the cold air (and ofen on the outside, too to keep the ice 
out of the zipper).  

They are also nearly crucial when you have to put your pants on or take 
them off while you are on sloping ice or deep snow.  With the full side 
zips, you do not need to take your crampons or snowshoes off and can 
leave both of your feet firmly planted while putting your pants on.

They are more expensive but it sure beats taking your snowshoes (or 
crampons) off and postholing up to your crotch into a spruce trap (or 
sliding down an icy rock face) when you lose your balance trying to put 
a leg through the windpants.

Mara

>Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 21:25:33 -0800
>From: kahley7 <kahley7@ptd.net>
>Subject: [at-l] Winter Trip Tips long
>
>Nylon wind pants_with_ankle zippers cause you cool off
>very quickly during lunch.

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