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How to properly walk on ice
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hammer
Active member
Had a little experience with this earlier today?
andyzee
New member
Works great on flat surface, what about a slope? I slide down my snow covered front lawn the other day.
drjeff
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My wife actually got me a pair of Yaktrax as a stocking stuffer this Christmas
A bunch of the lifties at Mount Snow wear them regularly. I tried them out for while running a few miles a couple of weekends ago around where my place at Mount Snow is on a mixture of hard packed and loose snow, dry and wet asphalt and even after getting a bit more adventerous after having used them for about 1.5 miles, some icy asphalt, and I have to say that I was impressed with them. They provided solid traction on those surfaces and considering that I was wearing a pair of running shoes that had about 250 miles on them, what i was wearing on my feet at the time weren't by any means something with a bunch of aggressive tread on them, I was impressed. Plus, I had very minimal sensation, even while running, of them being on your shoes, so it wasn't like it felt like you were stepping on say a stick or a rock. The elastic design of them compresses quite a good amount when you step on them
I also tried them out during a freezing rain event a few weekends ago, and while on the glazed, hard packed snow, slightly pitched parking lot I was walking on that evening they weren't 100% slip free, they did a good job and had me walking in a much more "normal" fashion than I would of been without them. For about $20-$25, they seemed like a good deal and not a gimic
A bunch of the lifties at Mount Snow wear them regularly. I tried them out for while running a few miles a couple of weekends ago around where my place at Mount Snow is on a mixture of hard packed and loose snow, dry and wet asphalt and even after getting a bit more adventerous after having used them for about 1.5 miles, some icy asphalt, and I have to say that I was impressed with them. They provided solid traction on those surfaces and considering that I was wearing a pair of running shoes that had about 250 miles on them, what i was wearing on my feet at the time weren't by any means something with a bunch of aggressive tread on them, I was impressed. Plus, I had very minimal sensation, even while running, of them being on your shoes, so it wasn't like it felt like you were stepping on say a stick or a rock. The elastic design of them compresses quite a good amount when you step on them
I also tried them out during a freezing rain event a few weekends ago, and while on the glazed, hard packed snow, slightly pitched parking lot I was walking on that evening they weren't 100% slip free, they did a good job and had me walking in a much more "normal" fashion than I would of been without them. For about $20-$25, they seemed like a good deal and not a gimic
ctenidae
Active member
I got a pair of slip-on studded galoshes thing for my wife when we had our place in Boston because the parking area always got about a 6-inch thick layer of super slippery ice. She always remembered she had them when laying flat on her back beside the car.
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