what’s in your ski mountaineering pack - US Army Mtn Warfare School

[~mikey b]

https://youtu.be/Hc1Bdai4GA0?si=a8EA2rQQdJG5YVQo

[danmelon]

Love the snow shoe dig at the end

Gonna need all that kit for the Canada invasion! lol jk


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[Meadow Skipper]

That was fun. Probably isn’t fun carrying 250+ lbs () around on snow and ice.

[summit]

That guy is great. I enjoyed that. Fuck snowshoes.

[Harry]

DPS skis with snow camo topsheets, remember that the next time the defense budget is discussed.

[nickwm21]

What DPS model is it?


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[coldfeet]

He is a great presenter, I don't know if it's practice from being an instructor or his personality. The average youtube watcher might actually learn something. Of course there are a few ding dongs in the comments section trying to correct him about the details (Johnny Paintball lecturing an Army instructor about snow camo, etc).

I am almost as big a wussy liberal peacenik outdoor hippie as it gets, but I think it's interesting that some outdoor companies probably are able to maintain a certain amount of domestic manufacturing based on supplying the military/govt agencies with technical gear. I imagine that this also is significant for some Euro companies supplying contracts to their own governments.

[Meadow Skipper]

I am almost as big a wussy liberal peacenik outdoor hippie as it gets, but I think it's interesting that some outdoor companies probably are able to maintain a certain amount of domestic manufacturing based on supplying the military/govt agencies with technical gear. I imagine that this also is significant for some Euro companies supplying contracts to their own governments.

Patagonia has produced gear for the military in the past. I think Arc’teryx has too.

[BeHuWe]

DPS skis with snow camo topsheets, remember that the next time the defense budget is discussed.

Those might just be a one of thing or something specific to test. DOD isn’t going to issue plastic because they have really only a singular case use and asking an infantry soldier to also lug an extra set of boots around doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.

The idea of ski born troops is kind of a novelty for the US military.

I used to work and teach at the USMC mountain warfare school and we had an interesting mix of skis and gear that was always changing or we were testing new gear. Every company wants a piece of that DOD budget.

The usmc had/has a mix of voiles ultravector (with scales) and switchback bindings, some karhus, and Asnes.


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[SnowMachine]

Thanks for sharing Mikey. That dude is squared away and probably has about the coolest job ever.

I would suspect that his gear is very personal like more specialized units. We all know that skis, boots, climbing gear, etc are very personal choices. As a instructor I would bet he owns some of his gear or gets budget for those items. I bet that his students get more standardized issued gear.

[summit]

When I have seen 10th SFG training around here in the past they've been on BD boots and BD or Voile skis, flat white, but haven't seen em in a hot sec.

[XXX-er]

you should see what the Japanese home defence uses it looks like very old cabel bindings with leather work boots