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[pct-l] Alpenstocks

Subject: [pct-l] Alpenstocks
From: BWIL5272@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brad Wilson)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 11:33:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: <18e.1696affb.2b808cd3@aol.com>

Just a guess, but they were so long, I wonder if they could have been (and
were) used as avalanche probes as well? They sure didn't have avalanche
beacons back then.

-Brad

On 2/16/03 1:42 AM, "CMountainDave@aol.com" <CMountainDave@aol.com> wrote:

> Why on earth were alpenstocks long instead of short? They didn't know any
> better? You know, the snow tool that preceded the ice ax
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