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Atlas BC24 Snowshoe REVIEW

This showshoe lets you climb like a mountain goat, but needs more flotation and some weight reduction.

By Will Rietveld

May 1, 2007

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The Atlas BC24, a new snowshoe for winter 2006-2007, is designed for climbing, making it perfect for mountaineers, snowboarders or backcountry skiers. It's 24 inches long for better maneuverability but has the surface area of a 25 inch snowshoe. It has the most aggressive crampon system I have ever seen and it has a superb binding that lays flat for easier packing. What is there not to like about the BC24?

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Will Rietveld Ph.D, Senior Editor for Gear and Apparel, joined the BPL staff in April 2004. In his former career, Will was a research scientist, project manager, and R&D program administrator. Now retired, he lives in southern Colorado where he takes up a new career of backpacking year-round in the mountains and canyon country of the Southwest. During the summer months Will and his wife Janet are volunteer wilderness rangers in the Weminuche Wilderness. He has been a lightweight backpacker for 52 years and an ultralight backpacker for 13 years.

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