I went hiking this past weekend on the Appalachian Trail. The area was having an ice storm. My friend and I had to put ice clips on the borrom of our shoes to hike up the mountain. There was so much ice that my friend had to set his tent up inside the shelter so that the large chunks of ice would not damage his tent. I set up my Clarks Jungle hammock with speer peapod to weather the storm. The trail became a 4 inch ice path. The return trip was hard, at one point I had to slide on my backside for a long distance to get down the mountain. The ice chunks falling from the trees were the size of large ice cubes a hard on the head.