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)[reply]
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)[reply]

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)[reply]
Duck tape can be used to make cheap - and effective - anti-ballling plates!(Sqril (talk) 16:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC))[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]