Talk:Crampons

Types of crampons

• It's not true that steps had to be cut when using 10-point crampons. These crampons replaced the need for cutting steps. 10-point crampons were used solely with French technique, in which the feet are planted flat on the slope to engage all the points. The addition off front points (12-point crampons) allowed ... well, frontpointing. Paul R 19:36, 7 February 2007 User:38.117.172.158
• there are also 10 point crampons with front points. grivel g10s for instance--Mongreilf (talk) 15:46, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
• Hinged Vs Riged

  Very few new crampons are new hinged. The spar connecting the front and rear points tends to be made out of a flexable metal. Wtfman123 (talk) 18:49, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Category footwear

• I wonder if this article might be better placed in the category of footwear accessories rather than footwear. Crampons are generally worn over boots, like spurs or spats. Sadharan (talk) 16:37, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
• Duck tape can be used to make cheap - and effective - anti-ballling plates!(Sqril (talk) 16:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC))

Crampons and Plastic Boots

• "While crampons are an invaluable tool for a mountaineer, they were not used as often as today until the development of plastic-shelled climbing boots, because the straps used to affix the crampons to early mountaineering boots (which were made of leather) had a tendency to restrict blood flow to the feet of the wearer." I would like to see a specific reference for this claim. Before the advent of plastic boots, top quality leather mountaineering boots were VERY stiff - both the soles and the uppers. I think that there were many factors that slowed the acceptance of crampons, but I believe they were universally accepted for glacier climbing long before plastic boots came along. Jim Heaphy (talk) 15:24, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Good point. Crampons have been essential mountaineering equipment since the early 20th century, decades before the advent of plastic boots. Incdientally, the archaeological museum at Bolzano has in its collection a very ancient iron crampon--not as old as Oetzi, but a couple of thousand years old if memory serves. 206.208.105.129 (talk) 16:54, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

In level walking

• I have used walking crampons to walk on town pavements, in very icy weather. We in England have had a dose of it in this week :: thick snow, part melt, freeze again, glazed frost. I bought them in a winter around the 1970's when there was an inch thick of packed ice on the pavements/sidewalks for weeks :: with the global warming I thought I would never need them again!, but I had to get them out again to go Christmas shopping. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 21:43, 26 December 2009 (UTC)