Advantages: The great fit of Intuition liners Disadvantages: They're a wee bit ugly
...are heat moulded to your feet, it’s easy to get a good fit. The only thing to remember about buying boots with Intuition liners is to make sure the shop you buy them from has the right heat-moulding equipment and that a proper boot fitter helps you make the most them.
One improvement the Griffon might benefit from is a velcro strap in the liner across the ankle minimise heel lift. But the interior lacing on the outer boot does a pretty good job of keeping the liner in place. The inside laces are a bit fiddly but once your fingers are nimble enough to get right down to the bottom holes, they strap up pretty tight.
My new Griffons felt like lead wellies for the first couple of days but I was able to break them in pretty quickly and now I love them.
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Advantages: Cheap, relativly light Disadvantages: Leash comes off
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Having doing hillwalking and low grade rock climbing for a number of years i though i would take the plunge into winter walking. Last year i bought myself a pair of Grivel G10 crampons and the above axe.
The axe is 60cm in length with a wrist lensh on the shaft. The axe head is study and joined to shaft with an eyelet rivet, the same as most axes of this type. The shaft of the axe sounds hollow giving it it's light weight. This does not mean that it is weak, as I used it once as as a hanhold, jaming the axe horizontal across the top of two boulders and hauling myself up on it, the shaft did not bend and their is no sign of cracking.
The shaft appears to have a protective coating on it that also allows for extera grip by having loads of small raised bubbles on it.
The head of the axe, is quit tough, and has not been...
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