Quick-Tip - Snowshoeing set a pick for easier traverses

Description

This 40 second video shows a tip for dealing with steep side slopes on traverses. Wilderness Quick-Tips are all less than 60 seconds long and cover a wide range of outdoor topics. Only a few will be posted to YouTube, all will be posted to our website. (wildernessinnovation com)

Tags: snowshoe,tip,perry,peacock,traverse

Video Transcription

well this is perry peacock with your wilderness quick tip you're up snowshoeing and you get on kind of a steep angle slope and you can't get your your snowshoes the grip to keep sliding or if you're on an area where it's really icy when you slide do what they do in basketball and set a pick flex your ski pole firmly step down the side of the ski pole like that plant your next like that step down like that that'll now keep it from sliding and that's your wilderness quick tip