Winter Walk. Scary

I live west of Montreal, back in '98 we had was called the ice storm of the century, no power for 2 weeks, some 30 days or more, all the trees and power lines covered with 3" of ice, total disaster, then there was what was called Icers, basically shoe soles with Velcro straps and metal screws as ice picks on the bottom, each had about 20 per foot, today there are a whole lot of better ones, lighter and affordable, Google “traction aids” … we have been using those here for the past 27 years, ice on the side of roads in the winter is as common as cars, I also have a 80lb rottweiler, she is 13 now but still wants her daily walks, 2 to 4 km, so wearing those track aids is the best thing just after heated mits..LOL And at 79 I still going strong, not like a 20 year old but still moving along better the most of those.

@kgmgpm Same age. Two 55 lb Springer spaniels but I’m recovering from broken left wrist

The dog walker I talked about overtook me From behind on the sidewalk
I have Yak Traks years and years old Didn’t have them on. His dog is a big pit bull thank heaven it’s well behaved

I like the idea of the rear view cycling glasses

DaveL

@Blue_Pearl1 said:

Could you please post the program that you were referring to, that the owner of the forum published?

And why do you call it “a mask program”? Because speech is so hard to hear with masks on?

That PDF is quite old. Newer version of Phonak Target software has a feature to add a Mask Program already prepared by manufacturer.

From my case, I have high frequencies already maxed out (despite having a UP receiver), so a mask program isn’t necessarily very beneficial for me. However, for anyone else, it’s another story.

I cannot wait for xMEMS receivers - they will be probably more revolutionary (or at the least as much) than AI. There is quite often lack of adequate gain in HFs, especially when someone need DSL 5.0 fitting algorithm.

That’s the program I used.

It’s made a huge difference. I

Have severe loss due to noise.

CLARITY button in myPhonak is similar.

DaveL