Anyone snowshoe kilted?

[Andrew Breecher]

Well, better on the back of the kilt, than when you make a misstep, and the snow goes up under the back of the kilt. That gets your attention really quick.

Oh, I've postholed while hiking in a kilt. Your foot goes through the snow all the way up until it stops...THAT gets your attention - especially when it takes a minute or two to get your foot free!

Andrew.

[ccga3359]

Oh, I've postholed while hiking in a kilt. Your foot goes through the snow all the way up until it stops...THAT gets your attention - especially when it takes a minute or two to get your foot free!

Andrew.

Imagine the snow prints left for the next snowshoer? Imagine further the melting aspect and the subsequent reporting that they've found more than the normal sasquatch tracks!

[mexpiper]

Yes, I have snowshoe kilted.. Its keeps you moving... I think I even have a picture somewhere of me wearing my nightstalker while snowshoeing.

It just takes more finis to put the snowshoes on!

[Ivy]

I know this is a bit of an old thread, but snowshoeing season is upon us in western Washington and I had some questions. I've been wanting to try it kilted for a while now, but I've spent far too many trips breaking fresh trail in the Cascade range to think it a good idea. Nothing like frostbitten thighs to deter me from doing it twice. We don't get the soft powder that a lot of you get, very wet snow most of the time. Anybody have any experience with this, advice, or should I save it for late season when the snow is crusty and hard?

[Kilted_John]

Don't really see it as being much of a problem. In 2003, when we had that snowstorm after Christmas, I was outside in the 10-12" of snow that had fallen in Duvall, wearing a kilt, hose, and hiking boots. As long as you're not going into the real deep stuff, I don't see there being much of a problem.

-J

[Tommie]

Why do I allways read these posts allway thru before someone mentions its an old thread.
SNOW! Juck.You can keep it.Give me a warm beach and sand kicking up under me kilt while running along the sea shore.

[Pleater]

Maybe figure hugging stretchy Gortex leggings, under hose or boots and kilt - hardly visible unless you go base over apex, comfortable and like a second skin but that would be too revealing for most people, and too cold.

Maybe they should be slightly looser and go over boots - more visible but would stop the snow slithering wetly downwards.

Maybe cuffs to tuck into boots, for warmth, inside snow deflecting britches.

We've already had snow in Britain, in October, which last happened in the 1930s. That is good for the Scottish skiing resorts though.

The weather is really cold at the moment - rather suddenly. These days there seems to be an instability which causes the air temperature to alter far more quickly, so in less that a week it changes from tee shirt weather to jersey and jacket required to go outside.

Anne the Pleater

[Wompet]

We don't get the soft powder that a lot of you get, very wet snow most of the time. Anybody have any experience with this, advice, or should I save it for late season when the snow is crusty and hard?

Depending on air temperature, lake temperature, humidity, size of the cold front - we can get wet snow, soft powder, or hard pellets anytime during the season around here. Sometimes we'll start with one type of snow and transition into another.
The wet snow is a little sloppier than powder or hardpack, it's true. But if you adjust your stride such that any wet snow on top of the shoe doesn't get launched up under the kilt you'll be fine. Hardpack requires the least technique (which is good, thinking of those times I was running across a frozen field after the dog).

[Ivy]

I guess if I just wear tights underneath, I would be fine. Most of the time I don't wear anything more than that and a pair of nylon hiking pants, and a pair of gaiters to keep the white stuff out of the boots.

My snowshoes free-hinge, so I don't have the snap back problem of catapulting snow up my backside.

[Ivy]

Oh, and Tommie, the date of each new post is up in the left corner.