I did a lunchtime turn around Hoyt-Pileated inner loop back to Wilson yesterday.
I took and would highly recommend you take trekking poles: it is seriously
treacherous out there with the frozen snow/ice/footprint holes.
It was cold and crisp but not snowing (yesterday), so good exercise but few
Chris,
I came across a product in LL Bean and Amazon called stabilicers which are
inexpensive and work so much better than yak-trax. They come in two variants
and the
light is plenty for icy sidewalks, roads and groomed trail. In the mountains
I'd
recommend the more expensive version, short of
