In crucial moments, ski crampons can be your most valuable piece of ski touring or mountaineering gear. Here, the 411 on when, when not and how to use them.
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Skeats ski crampon review, simple device for climbing ice or hard snow while backcountry ski touring, simple and light weight, clever invention for skiing.
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Review of G3 ION ski crampons, excellent backcountry option is easy to install and remove, even with your skis attached to your feet while ski touring.
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B&D Ski Crampons review for backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering adventures
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Ski crampon reviews for backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering
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It’s well known to the ski crampon cognicenti that Fritschi OEM ski binding crampons are less than ideal, because they rise with the binding rail and may have little bite when you’re in the higher heel rise positions. To solve…
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[part one] Today’s snow invoking (hah) project is mounting the B&D crampon system with an older Dynafit TLT backcountry skiing binding. This is a good example of how B&D crampons work without a factory binding connection. Instead, you use the…
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B&D ski crampons reviewed for backcountry skiing and ski mountaineering
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Voile ski crampons review, great crampons for backcountry skiing or ski mountaineering
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The glossy carbon weave is attractive. When carbon is employed, we pay a premium for lightness and stiffness: Dynafit’s Blacklight ski boot doubles up with real-world stiffness and is a high-functioning boot for any mountain mission.
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Revisiting a 2011 Trip Report: Adventure in the Pickets — Thread of Ice Ski Descent
by Louie Dawsonby Louie DawsonWe get it all in this trip report: youthful spirit, great images, and some vision. Two skiers enter Washington’s remote Picket Range to ski Thread of Ice.
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Moonlight skis Cruiser 120 offers plenty of width underfoot, and throughout the ski, for that matter, to make the most of powder skiing. And if you are going the distance, the ~1600g won’t tax you too much on the skintrack.
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If not the golden age of ski touring bindings, then it’s somewhere close to it. Consumers have many choices and numerous feature sets to consider when opting for a backcountry ski binding. We offer up four options in this ski touring binding gear guide that covers the full-spectrum from lightweight jewel to freeriding burly.
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A 2020 Q&A with Hilaree Neslon, North Face team leader and 8000 meter peak skier on lessons learned over decades of ski mountaineering, favorite expedition gear and tips for aspiring ski mountaineers.
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Ski crampons—maybe your best friend when skinning in firm conditions. But sometimes for steeper ascents, a mod is in order. Chris Dickson has an easy, cheap, and effective means of increasing ski crampon penetration with heel risers engaged.
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Sam Hennessey gets granular with the gear. He details the ski alpinism hard and soft goods to make the most of the Alaska Range.
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Just like that, Salomon makes a splash in the 1kg ski boot realm with a stiff skiing (very stiff FWIW) and high functioning tourer in the MTN Summit.
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As winter marches onward, spring ski mountaineering objectives dance in our dreams: Techniques and considerations for ski mountaineering on glaciers.
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Hardish-shell Ski Pants from BD, Strafe, OR, and Arc’teryx- An Initial Look
by Gavin Hessby Gavin HessA first look at new backcountry ski pants from Outdoor Research, Black Diamond, Strafe, and Arc’teryx. We’re talking more about hybrid ski pants: hardish.
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Written in the Snows: Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest- Book Review
by Jason Albertby Jason AlbertBook review of Lowell Skoog’s “Written in the Snows: Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest,” in which the author covers the fabric of the region’s backcountry skiing history.