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My wife Sue and I had planned a twelve-day snow shoe walk across the highest part of the Australian Alps, from the Thredbo ski resort to near Canberra, for the middle of our rather short snow season in August 2008. We had planned this trip carefully, we knew the area very well, we had done the actual full walk once before in autumn, and we had even managed to put in a food drop half way along. What we had not allowed for was several weeks of extreme weather which simply blew us off the mountains. This is the story of what went wrong, and how.
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Lynn,
Haha. The most accurate statement about the tadpole ever made. :-) I took it on a winter trip expecting not to come away with it and sure enough it held the test of time. I'm not a claustrophobic person but I recall waking up in the night with the roof almost completely collapsed and freaking out. I just brushed the snow off and it went back to form, no permanent deformations to see here.
Pretty amazing to see those poles bend and such angles and not one seam tearing apart under so much weight.
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