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Jan 2021
3:04pm, 14 Jan 2021
1,063 posts
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Ally-C
I was talking in general & not to anyone specific on the thread. Apologies if it was taken any other way.
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Jan 2021
3:06pm, 14 Jan 2021
610 posts
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CreatureOfTheHill
Nae problem, we misread that. Ditto, with the sorry.
Think lockdown has us more jittery than ever.
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Jan 2021
3:19pm, 14 Jan 2021
32,762 posts
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Old Croc
waves to COTH down the road in Cairngorm
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Jan 2021
3:56pm, 14 Jan 2021
37,077 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Completely CotH and Gus. That's way beyond the level of conditions I would run in - not ice axe trained and never climbed or ice climbed.
Both of the Kahtoolas could / would come off on steep ice or snow with a lot of force.
They help to prevent fore and after and lateral slip. Not suitable for climbing, I would say.
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Jan 2021
3:56pm, 14 Jan 2021
37,078 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
*fore and aft
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Jan 2021
10:01pm, 14 Jan 2021
6,497 posts
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57.5 Degrees of Pain
I spent years messing around with ice axe arrests while bum sliding on the hills in my youth. The one time I had a real fall some time later the muscle memory came in very handy with a slick axe arrest.
Scariest moment from those days was on Liathach, on my own in winter as my friends were too hung over to join me and I was young and foolhardy. Got to a point most of the way up where it was too slippery to go up or down and the crampons were attached to the back of my rucksac. Cue a very scary 10 minutes attaching spikes to boots standing on a narrow ledge with one hand while holding an axe wedged as well as possible.
Despite still owning ridgid boots and crampons plus two axes, I stick to mountain adventures in good, ice and snow free, weather these days!
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Jan 2021
11:05pm, 14 Jan 2021
11,126 posts
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_andy
Ha, this thread had been taken over by winter kit talk... which is great!
Your Liathach tale brought back memories from just over 20 years ago on An Teallach, where I'd headed up a gully on the summit ridge only to find the way barred, with ice axe in frozen turf and realised that my helmet was still in my rucksack... I still remember looking back down (and down and down) as I carefully put it on, then downclimbed to find a wiser route. Happy days.
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Jan 2021
2:54pm, 16 Jan 2021
5,864 posts
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katypie
I got my nanospikes yesterday. I have micros somewhere but we don’t really need them here. I’m not running anywhere exciting enough to Merit them
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Jan 2021
12:10am, 17 Jan 2021
2,141 posts
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JRitchie
It’s all turned to slush where I am (which is not too high).
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Feb 2021
8:36pm, 26 Feb 2021
4,386 posts
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K5 Gus
An actual race has opened for entries - woohoo !! Fingers and everything else crossed.
Glen Lyon Trail Race - 15.5 miles around Loch Lyon on Sunday 6th June.
Entry form on Facebook group Glen Lyon Race Chat ( it's a bit of a pfaff as it's a pdf you need to fill out and email, I used website simplypdf.com to convert to Word)
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