by katie.d | Apr 12, 2015 | adventure, boots, colorado, diy
In a previous review of my Zamberlan Expert IBEX alpine boots, I mentioned that one of the potential weaknesses of this boot was the stitching in the back of the heel. After one year of alpine climbing, the motion of heel plunging into the snow has...
by katie.d | Sep 30, 2014 | backpacking, boots, Hunting, winter camping
The high peaks of Colorado in mid October till mid November, will be cold, snowy and wet. As I write this, it has been thundering up in the Sawatch, switching for rain, to hail, to fat snow flakes then back to rain. By the second and third season of elk, from mid...
by katie.d | May 5, 2014 | boots, crampons, field journal, ice climbing, review
Getting on Ice with the Zamberlan Expert Ibex GTX RR The name and model number are a bit of a mouthful. I had been ordering in these mountain hunting boots one at a time, due to cost, and the Ibex was chosen last. I own Meindl and Kenetrek goods of...
by katie.d | May 4, 2014 | boots, crampons, field journal, ice climbing, Meindl
Kenetrek Mountain Guide 400 I’ve been a fan of the Kenetrek company for a while when years back I went and looked for a sturdy, yet low key winter backpacking boot. What I found was the the Kenetrek Grizzly. A few hundred miles later the boots had holes in them...
by katie.d | May 3, 2014 | boots, crampons, field journal, ice climbing, Meindl
The Cabela’s Meindl Alaska Hunter Review Earlier in the winter season I was looking for a good alpine boot for waterfall ice, and glacier climbing in addition to the use of mountain hunting. I noticed that both Cabela’s among several other companies had...
