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Originally Posted by Stuart Fedak
Good question, and I did not ask. I did spend time looking at and discussing the various pieces of kit used for climbing; ice work; rescue extraction; avalanche probes; safety transponders; helmets; as used by the advanced training units. I assume they would be carrying more kit than usual.
In my own experience, the old skoole snow shoes are better for beating through bush and making a trail. The bear paw snowshoes are better for flotation in deep snow. When I was up in the arctic, I used snow shoes that we could add on additional flotation tails when carrying more weight in deep snow.
The kit for climbing was a lot more sophisticated than what I used in the 70's.
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Stuart, did you happen to take a pic of them ? (and the bindings) did the CAF get a new mukluk also ? Looks like a good turn out and event for the MV community to get behind and hats off to all the participants either runners or displaying kit and vehicles.