It shall be called, "Snowtorious B.I.G"

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally Posted by ADqtPiMel

I've found that they work best on packed snow -- when I ran in them during SNOWMAGEDDON II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO I ran in the middle of the road where a couple of cars had packed down the snow. It's really hard to run in these drifts. The YakTrax seem to work best in the few days after a snowstorm where there's complete ground cover that's been smooshed down a bit.

Noted. I'm way behind on my training for the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler because I let my gym membership lapse and I'm only running outside now.

I'm going to walk to the grocery store now, despite Topper Shutt's recommendations to stay inside. Hopefully they're open.

[ADqtPiMel]

Originally Posted by Lil' Hannah

Noted. I'm way behind on my training for the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler because I let my gym membership lapse and I'm only running outside now.

I'm going to walk to the grocery store now, despite Topper Shutt's recommendations to stay inside. Hopefully they're open.

Same here -- cancelled the gym membership in September because the only reason I would use a treadmill is because it's snowing, and it never snows here. Right. Luckily I haven't gotten too far behind on training (running the Shamrock Marathon in VA Beach in March) -- I've just switched weeks around and whatnot so the snowstorms have coincided with rest weeks.

Last night my husband snarled at the TV, "I hate you Topper Shutt! I don't even CARE what your real name is!"

[VandalSquirrel]

I've been lauding the YakTracks (and their variations) on GC for years. They do work better on more glaciated snow and ice, and if the drifts are high I have my snowshoes on.

My only righteous indignancy about people complaining about the snow is that other than travel it isn't unreasonable to keep enough food and water on hand for a week for emergencies. I grew up in San Francisco (no snow) and have had that set up my whole life due to earth quakes. I have my camping gear in the event my home is demolished, but are people just not prepared for emergencies? I know the roads suck but are complaints about roads related to getting to the store and what not, wouldn't the lack of infrastructure for clearing roads be lessened if people stayed the hell home so roads could be cleared quicker, which is what we do here or people clear roads on their own.

Yeah, I'm not making Idaho look good about cuckoo survivalists but honestly, emergency preparedness is a good idea.