While I quite enjoy my Cold Steel shovels, they do have their limits.
I would hasten to add that my car has a long-handled spade in the trunk all spring/summer/fall (for fighting grass fires and 'liberating' small pine trees under power lines), and a real snow shovel all winter.
FWIW, since the forum's search function didn't turn up the old CS shovel reviews, I went straight to Google. Google never sleeps, Google never forgets. (Yikes.) Here are the links:
http://forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=130568http://forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=130591http://forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=132166