Testing of snowshoes TSL

the snow and I One of these days has unexpectedly dropped out, having taken advantage of the moment, has gone to a wood to test recently got snowshoes TSl 227 Rando. Two hours I wandered on zasnezhennym to hills and ravines checking work of snowshoes in various conditions. I have just in case written down the impressions, remarks, and simply clever ideas and have supplied with illustrations.
Prehistory.


So has developed in Ukraine, that ski winter hikes at us are not widespread. First anybody does not have suitable skis, secondly character of a snow cover not absolutely suitable. In Crimea the snow is scattered on mountains in the any order - huge snow fields are replaced by grassy slopes and rocky breakages. In Carpathians of a snow it is a lot of, but effectively to use ski stir(prevent) dense thrickets stlannika and windbreaks. The tradition has as a result arisen to use for winter hikes snowshoes, generally self-made. They are much more accessible dear(expensive) and rare skiturov, very much manevrenny and are compact. Couple of years back I too have made(produced) unpretentious self-made snowshoes (for a winter hike on Carpathians). As a whole "snegostupanie" it was pleasant to me. But up to an ideal it was rather far. The huge quantity(amount) of lacks compelled(forced) to search for other variants. Actually one of them laid literally on a surface. More precisely on counters of tourist shops. Bourgeois plastic snowshoes under the transcendental prices. It was required to me to ripen two years on their purchase...
As we tested.

In all fashionable editions testing home appliances and an other crap, necessarily write about a technique of testing and about the equipment used for it(this). Than we are worse? And so, as proving ground has been chosen Goloseevsky a wood covered in 20 centimeters of a wettish snow. Adhering to the chosen terminology, I shall tell that, the test facility has been collected on the basis of me. More shortly, I have dressed snowshoes and have gone on a wood to walk.
We dress snowshoes.

Snowshoes preliminary were not adjusted(not set up). I have simply thrown them on a snow and have started to fit to them the slippers of 45 sizes. Slippers have got easily, but be they pair the sizes more, anything at me it would not turn out. podpjatnik has been put forward on a maximum, that by the way was not slow to affect.

At put forward against the stop podpjatnike ochet it is difficult otshchelknut a clamp(fixing agent) of a heel. Hands in mittens it you will not make, it is necessary to cling its(his) tip of a ski stick. But if your footwear though little bit less the than mentioned 45-th size, to you does not threaten all this.
the Belt drawing to a platform nosok a boot is necessary for adjusting in advance so that prjazhka did not get at movement under a platform. To make it when a boot already in stremeni it is practically impossible, will have to remove a snowshoe.
the Second belt, in a back part of a platform, is more convenient in circulation. With it(him) problems have not arisen. Has pleased that fasteks (a fastener in the form of a trident) it is made without superfluous intermediate cuts(sections). In such the snow would by all means be hammered, complicating zashchelkivanie.

it is important! The right and left snowshoes externally seem identical. But the difference is. Toptalki it is necessary to dress so that prjazhki and latches were from the external party(side). Otherwise you risk rastroshchit them having touched with the second snowshoe.

It is necessary to notice, that the description of all preparations has borrowed(occupied) from me ten times more time, than the process of clothing continued from force of 3 minutes. In comparison with 15 minutes left on pelenanie of self-made snowshoes, it in general anything.
On a floor(field) tanks roared.

I at last have gone! And unlike steel homemade products it at all did not remind the roaring tank. To go easily, snowshoes on legs(foots) simply you do not notice. The free heel is easier charm. Owing to it(her), the huge length of a snowshoe at all does not stir(prevent). Legs(foots) move naturally, instead of as at walking in lastah (the main trouble of snowshoes without a free heel). The friend snowshoes do not cling to the friend - the form and small width helps(assists) with it(this) vosmerkoobraznaja.

On a wood I went naprolom, " on an azimuth ", making the way through bushes and small windbreaks to check up opportunities of maneuvering of the snowmobiles. All turned out not bad except for a backing. That it is necessary to move back back artfully to drag a leg(foot) or to fix a heel.

Overcoming a concrete fence I all taki have removed(have taken off) snowshoes, and have dressed them already on other party(side). Both operations have borrowed(occupied) less minutes. The adjusted(set up) snowshoes put on very quickly.

 

When on one of sites I was dispersed, have felt that dangles(hangs about) in a boot. The snowshoe as though pulled together footwear from a leg(foot). The matter is that I have dressed only one pair socks (and those thin) and have densely laced up boots obviously insufficiently.
On valleys and on vzgorjam.

It was time to break to the second part of tests - to check up work of snowshoes on slopes. I have found deep enough ravine with a steepness of a slope about 35 degrees. For the beginning I have gone down downwards, moving stupidly(bluntly) downwards without any zigzags. Character of a snow cover not too approached(suited) to such way of descent(release) - the thin and damp layer of a snow slided on wet foliage and I was few times passed in mountain-skiing style.

 

Rising upwards, I have decided to take advantage podpjatochnoj of a support. It has appeared, that this simple adaptation really helps(assists) on rises. Ikronozhnye muscles and a sheaf are less stretched(less dragged out) and get tired less.



 Following stage - travers a slope and descent(release) by zigzags. That I was more convenient to maneuver has fixed(recorded) a heel and have gone to a way. Because of not enough thick snow cover it was necessary to put legs(foots) under a corner and to go was not so conveniently. But as a whole everything is all right.
Snow pancake komom.

the Working surface of snowshoes is made(produced) of cast polythene to which the snow practically does not stick. But it(he) periodically tries to be hammered under a heel of a platform. This problem is solved with one blow a ski stick.

And here with a snow hammered under nosok to consult not so it is easy(light). To remove for this purpose a snowshoe it would not be desirable. Therefore it will be easier to not suppose initially occurrence there a snow. For this purpose it is enough to tighten(delay) properly a belt drawing nosok a boot that the boot sat densely and did not dangle(did not hang about).

 

At last I have removed(have taken off) snowshoes and was passed(took place) on a snow in boots. In comparison at once it became appreciable, how the "unaided" heel, as proskalzyvaet at times a snow under durable fails. That is, even at a superficial snow, in snowshoes to go more comfortably despite of superfluous kg on each leg(foot).

 
Results.

We have started to compare time, let's compare self-made metal snowshoes to the given store product once again. Homemade products have managed to me in 10 dollars, store - in 20 times is more dear(expensive). The self-made snowshoe weighed about 1,6 kg, store - 1кг (thus its(his) area in 1,5 times is more). The unique ability of homemade products inaccessible store, is an opportunity to hammer in them during a dense snow on steep slopes. In all rest bourgeois snowshoes win.

 

Certainly final conclusions to do(make) still early. Snowshoes should be tested the presents in hikes. Only then it will be possible to judge their reliability and suitability for heavy conditions of operation.