I'm always on the fence with snowshoes. Used to prefer skiis for everything, but now me older, less skilled. Snowshoes likely safer.
How much did they help on this hike? Did you feel you needed them? Same question applies to crampons. Seems most of the time better off just with boots/ crampons only when icy early AM...
I'm always on the fence with snowshoes. Used to prefer skiis for everything, but now me older, less skilled. Snowshoes likely safer.
How much did they help on this hike? Did you feel you needed them? Same question applies to crampons. Seems most of the time better off just with boots/ crampons only when icy early AM...
Thanks!
Above 9.4k, I'd say the snowshoes were necessary. Since the snow was so powdery, I was sinking in mid-shin sometimes, even with the snowshoes.
I probably could've gotten by with just microspikes on the way up. On the way down, I got a bit off the established route and ran into some steeper terrain. I was happy that I had the longer spikes on the K10s.