[at-l] Re: Newfound Gap unpassable 3/9

[athiker@plantnet.com (Peter H. Fornof)]

That's the brand I have. I think they have four points per boot. 



> The crampons that other people were thinking of are made by CMI.
> You strap then on your boots.  They have two fangs coming about
> and cost about 35 dollars.  You absolutely do not want climbing
> crampons.  I haven't used the booties with spikes but saw them
> in a catalog advertised for fly fishers.  I'm a little dubious
> that they will actually work for negociating sloping ice.
> Then again, I haven't  used them.
> 
> Chris
> 
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> Chris Willett
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> Department of Mathematics
> University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
> 
> On 11 Mar 2002, manzana wrote:
> 
> > Great info. I went right to REI myself and bought some rubber booty
> > things with tungsten steel spikes in them for about $30. Is this what
> > you mean? Real climbing crampons looked like an overkill. There were
> > also some things that looked like big rubber bands with a steel spring
> > around them. I could not see them lasting very long. (Could be wrong
> > wbout that).
> >
> > Thanks, la manzana in Raleigh
> >
> >
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