Lightweight Footwear and Traction Systems for Snow Travel Webinar – Enrollment

 

• Title: Lightweight Footwear and Traction Systems for Snow Travel Webinar
• Presenter(s): Ryan Jordan, Backpacking Light Publisher
• Length: 1.5+ hours of video
• Enrollment Fee: $20 (FREE to Unlimited Members)

Webinar Outline

1. Introduction
2. Footwear System Objectives
3. Keeping Feet Warm and Dry: Shoes and Socks
4. Keeping Snow Out of Your Shoes
5. Overboots and Insulated Boots
6. Traction & Flotation
7. Spikes, Crampons, Snowshoes, or Skis?
8. Trekking Poles and Ice Axes
9. Case Studies: Footwear and Traction Systems
   1. Early Summer – Low Angle Passes on the Pacific Crest Trail (CA)
   2. Early Summer – High Angle Passes in the Wind River Range (WY)
   3. Summer – Washington Cascades Glacier Traverse (WA)
   4. Late Fall/Early Winter – Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Traverse (MT)
   5. Mid-Winter – Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park (WY)
   6. Late Winter – Wild Basin, Rocky Mountain National Park (CO)

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