Collected Musings of a Hill Wanderer

There are times when you leaned something new that you wonder why you didn’t find it before. My discovery is that I have in my possession a part of boots that take crampons even if their maker recommends emergency use. The boots in question are the Scarpa ZG10‘s that have featured on here a few times already; I think that I may be beginning to get a handle and making them fit me better, so long as laces don’t loosen, that is. Apparently, they are rated B0/B1 and that means that they can take flexible crampons like Grivels‘ G10 New Classic (classified as C1). the result of that revelation is that any barrier to a greater enjoyment of those ephemeral episodes when white wonderlands greet us has lowered just a little for me. For my tentative steps forward, it looks as if the Scarpas have a little more to offer and I intend to treat the possibilities in a manner to acquiring a first SLR camera: there are advanced functions that allow you to grow and advance but a spot of learning is in order first. I suppose that I need to watch that recently acquired BMC winter skills DVD before proceeding any further. I may not need new boots but I need to know what I am doing with crampons before attempting to use them so as to avoid doing anything daft, overly adventurous or unsafe. A journey continues…