High Sierra Topix

Just a heads up if you have MSR slowshoes and haven't used them in a couple of years: check your straps and bindings. I pulled mine off the rack a few weeks back and they broke into a pile of pieces. I worked out a reasonable fix, thank you Cascade Designs. If you're in the same boat I can share some details.

Sam R wrote:

Hi Sam, I am revisiting your post, and the helpful comments as it is a great time to get out into the range. You refered to Paul's ski trip, and here's a link to that great TR of his trans-Sierra ski trip that began at Huntington and ended on Lamarck Col and down:
https://www.highsierratopix.com/communi ... ake#p78409

It is one of my favorite winter trip reports of alltime.
Check PM. Cheers, Ian.

p.s. I sometimes gamble on using very small and lightweight crampons, originally bought for my young sons:

Photos and weights coming soon... Here they are, and they weight about 3 3/4 lbs., and they are 20"x 8"
Now Gogd will scoff, and say that size matters, but they got me up here:

Looking back on Crabtree Pass...


and here- West from the pass.

Harlen wrote: ↑Tue May 09, 2023 7:17 am I sometimes gamble on using very small and lightweight crampons, originally bought for my young sons..

.. they weight about 3 3/4 lbs., and they are 20"x 8"
Now Gogd will scoff, and say that size matters, but they got me up here:

Man! I can't getta break! As long as your spikes are held to the boot by something more substantial than the rubber rands used by micro spikes, which are known to fail on inclines - and as long as the snowshoes provide flotation that satisfies your criteria, me no scoff!

But I will caution anyone following Harlan's example that he is not the typical Superman! His trail munch is kryptonite, not granola, and he volunteers in his spare time using skills honed as an arborist and rock climber to teaching handicapped spiders how to cling to vertical surfaces.

Ed

Makes me want to hop into those snowshoes and head out into the picture below.

Even if I do have to eat kryptonite for breakfast.

Apparently, for all my kryptonite eating, I still have an Achilles ankle... F@%&!!