Winter Snowshoe Hike | Finger Lakes Trail M9

**The Roving Giant** · 02-04-2018, 14:36

I fixed the video. Newbie error.

**The Roving Giant** · 02-04-2018, 14:37

Originally Posted by backy

Looks beautiful. I'm enjoying coming along on your hikes

Thanks!

**The Roving Giant** · 02-04-2018, 14:44

Originally Posted by bloomgorge

The FLT looks like a pretty nice trail.

The shelter at minute 9:52 wasn't bushcraft, FLT is very squatchy.

Not sure how your back didn't get sweaty with that pack on, i have to pull a pulk in the winter so i do not over heat.

if you are 6'3" as your name suggests you are and wear an XL pant, PM me and i'll send you a pair of TNF winter pants with built in gators which i do not use anymore.

Honestly, I did still get a sweaty back, but I don't like dong the polk thing with a lot of ups and downs in the terrain. I still need to build some bracing bars for my sled so it doesn't flip or sway so easily.

I am actually 6'7" so normal pants don't quite cut it, but I will PM you anyways :-).

**AlanH** · 02-04-2018, 15:22

Very nice video. Finger Lakes looks like a very nice area. Congrats to you and the wife on new jobs. Maybe some hiking trips with your parish would be fun. Always feel closer to God outdoors. Take care,

**XJ35S** · 02-04-2018, 15:38

Please keep them coming. Beautiful place out there.

**BillyBob58** · 02-04-2018, 18:26

Very nice!

**The Roving Giant** · 02-05-2018, 08:19

Originally Posted by AlanH

Very nice video. Finger Lakes looks like a very nice area. Congrats to you and the wife on new jobs. Maybe some hiking trips with your parish would be fun. Always feel closer to God outdoors. Take care,

I intend to :-) Thanks!

**Muddy Creek** · 02-05-2018, 10:45

Great video. I've only hiked the portion of the FLT in the Arctic-China and the Steam Mill SF but NY is full of these State Forest gems.

I don't know if the lean-to is in State Forest land but be careful with cutting standing trees if you are. Dead and down wood is free to use. Dead and standing isn't. (DEC regulations.)

Wayne

**The Roving Giant** · 02-05-2018, 14:13

Originally Posted by Muddy Creek

I don't know if the lean-to is in State Forest land but be careful with cutting standing trees if you are. Dead and down wood is free to use. Dead and standing isn't. (DEC regulations.)

Thanks for the tip. Even in state forests, dead standing are not allowed?

**Muddy Creek** · 02-05-2018, 14:58

Yeah, DEC regulations say "Use only dead and down wood for fires. Cutting standing trees is prohibited." Might seem like a fussy regulation but I can't argue that standing dead trees don't harbor the food source for woodpeckers, etc. Also, many designated campsites in the Adirondacks are getting more and more spacious as ignorant campers , who don't know the difference between dead and dormant gleefully drop and burn the trees surrounding the sites. I've been in sites in the Moose River Plains and along Powley Road that feel like camping in a clearcut.

Snow cover makes it more difficult to locate dry wood and standing dead can be hard to resist. I like to keep an eye out for easily accessible wood along the road or trail as I am approaching the likely stopping point for the night. Usually back-tracking a hundred yards or so brings you to unspoiled pickings of downed wood that the more lazy couldn't be bothered with. I camped at along the FLT in a blow-down area that would have provided wood for months of campfires.

Wayne