Choosing Your Ice Axe: Trailer
If you hike the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, the Colorado Trail, and other trails that hit high altitudes, or if you are getting into mountaineering, you may want to consider using an ice axe. How can you know which type of ice axe to get? In the full video, we are discussing standard picks and inverted picks, spikes, hammers, adzes, bent shafts, straight shafts, leashes, and even how to insulate your axe so you don't freeze your hands!