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Mountaineering Boots: A beginners guide to choosing your first mountaineering or hiking boots

January 3, 2010 by Jonathan Rosenthal 5 Comments

Mountaineering Boots: is the first of a series of beginners guides covering the basic gear you need if you starting to discover the outdoors for the first time. Other guides will include choosing hiking boots, buying a first stove, sleeping bag and tent. Buying your first pair of mountaineering boots (or, for that matter, hiking […]

Filed Under: Boots, Tips Tagged With: boot, La Sportiva, mountaineering boot

Are Gore-Tex Boot Liners A Waste of Money?

September 27, 2005 by Jonathan Rosenthal 2 Comments

Outside Magazine’s gear guy has opened a can of worms; he’s answered a question most gear manufacturers would prefer wasn’t asked: Are Gore-Tex boot liners a waste of money : It’s a controversial question alright. Add Gore-Tex, or some newer fabric like Event, to a boot and you can easly add $20 to the price. […]

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La Sportiva Makalu Reviewed – One of the Top Winter Mountaineering Boots

September 14, 2005 by Jonathan Rosenthal 2 Comments

There’s a particular feeling you get when you cinch yourself into a pair of four-season winter boots. It’s an electric mix of invincibility and discomfort as you adjust your gait to a ramrod sole that’s meant for kicking snow steps and front pointing all day. Serious boots were built for one thing, and that’s not […]

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Scarpa Manta Comes Top In Trail Magazine Review

September 10, 2005 by Jonathan Rosenthal 1 Comment

Scarpa has just cleaned up the British Trail Magazine’s awards, winning best 4-season winter boot with the Scarpa Manta and best 3-4 season boot with the  Scarpa SL. The review, which calls itself “Britain’s toughest test”, is bound to increase the popularity of the already iconic Manta boot.Update 2010: Most of this was written when […]

Filed Under: Boots, Reviews Tagged With: boot, Manta, review, scarpa

Scarpa Omega A New Generation of Ice Climbing Boot

September 9, 2005 by Jonathan Rosenthal 5 Comments

Scarpa Omega – A New Generation of Ice-Climbing Boot Scarpa, well known for their double plastic Vega boots (Inferno in the U.S.), have released a new ice climbing boot that claims to be lighter and warmer than its competitors in the field of double plastic boots. These are boots with a waterproof and freeze-proof plastic […]

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