OK...I have a boat-load of snivel gear on order and if it all comes in then I plan to attend. I officially have Roche Rash after talking with Hangnout and FTroop the last couple of days.
OK...I have a boat-load of snivel gear on order and if it all comes in then I plan to attend. I officially have Roche Rash after talking with Hangnout and FTroop the last couple of days.
Ever eat a pine tree? Me neither...
RocheRash! Great one GN! and a new term coined, err roched
Fingers crossed your booty arrives and you can join us.
Hickery there is always callin' in sick
Great words from SouthMark: 'When I did this trip 2 or 3 years ago I hiked in trail runners with a thin liner sock, a bread bag over them and then a wool hiking sock plus knee high gaiters. This combo worked great. Never had wet or cold feet.'
Even knowing what SouthMark has shown I need the exercise and still plan on trekking in the concrete shoes I was roched into.
FIMB, just now getting caught up on the thread. NMLB.
G-nut
You do realize it's a communicable disease made worse by spending time in the backcountry with this crew. Looking forward to seeing you at this one; the numbers are strong and there's strength in numbers.
Last edited by Roche; 01-13-2014 at 07:28.
NMLB? Good to hear.
-Jeremy "Brother Bones"
Originally Posted by FLRider
Carpool a few people and be the only one with the car keys is also very effective.
My lead weights...err...Navigator's arrived
70.4 oz per overshoe with Vasque Sundowner MX2 Goretex boot
54.0 oz per overshoe with Inov8 Roclite 319 trail shoe
51.4 oz per overshoe with Saucony Kinvara 3 performance neutral street running shoe
hhmmm....????
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.
I've worn my with Roclites before.
I've been thinking of just wearing my Wiggy's Sunwalkers and using my Neos as a true packboot.
Scratch that. Just tried them on that way and they didn't have enough support. Trail runners in the Neos it is.
Last edited by wisenber; 01-13-2014 at 18:11.
52oz per foot with Navigators and New Balance primaloft insulated 1099 hiking boot
Started warming up for the trip yesterday carrying a backpack full of conibear beaver traps, steel stakes and a sledge hammer.
I know Conibears-great traps.
I spent the night last night on Round Bald, current conditions (worthless I know for the RHCH (Roan Higher Colder Hang) {hey that acronym is almost like roach} were very mild except for WIND I've NEVER felt before. Of course no trees on Round Bald and I'm not a tent user so what to do? I was on the ground, two pads (ground seriously frozen post the -17ish they had a couple of days ago, Hilleberg BivAnorak, down pants, down parka. Sleep was fitfull-not that I was uncomfortable (believe it or not) or cold (quite toasty in the clothing under a Warbonnet TQ), it was the wind. I swear it shook the ground and constantly riffling the bivi rattling it=noisy.
OK, back to trail conditions and a thought on the Neos Stablicers. No snow, at Carvers or on the trail up to Round Bald. I could see a good portion of the AT route toward Overmountain, again no snow but going up through the fir garden out of Carvers a couple of sheets of ice covering the trail 10-20 feet.
The Stabilicer cleats are better than nothing but not much more than that. I'd stand on the ice and scootch my feet and they would move....wouldn't be able to do that with microspikes.
Walking/hiking in the Neos=great! I've got a pair of rubber boots/Baffin seriously rated for cold but a beeatch to walk in, much less to hike in. The neos are really comfortable and their width prevented a lot of ankle roll I'm cursed with. Plus the model I got is very warm. I've been roched good into these.
The negative. I think I implied they are concrete before. They still are.
Oh, this morning at 0700 a young couple comes hiking right up on me with two dogs...last thing I'd expect. I had to scream 'look out for the cameras', they were cool and quickly contained their dogs.
Something else funny---though the wind was so strong I honestly had trouble standing normal or walking normal it was 42F on top, 43F at the car AND in the low thirties in Elizabethon/Johnson City=talk about temperature inversion!
So if the snows stay away it will be a concrete (ooops, cake) walk to Overmoutain; Neos needs to put lots of little jet packs where those cleats are
I'd like to try make it to this hang...
- MacEntyre
"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." - Ben Franklin
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