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Petzl Spiky (2012)

£26.00

The Petzl Spiky is the most basic option when it comes to providing grip on snow or ice. There are six carbon steel spikes attached to a rubber sock. Fitting them is a doddle as you just dip the toe of the shoe into the front and then stretch them over the heel of the shoe. There are cutouts in ...

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Hillsound Trail Crampon (2012)

£50.00

On more uneven ground with harder ice you need more spikes that are longer, and these spikes need to be more firmly held in place to create a stable foothold. The Hillsound Trail Crampon has 11 spikes that are each 1 cm long and quite sharp. These are located on three metal frames, so they cannot move around and therefore ...

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Grivel Spider (2012)

£30.00

The instep crampon has been the traditional solution to walking on frozen ground without using full crampons, and the Grivel Spider has been available for many years. It comes in one size and fits most footwear due to its simple frame, which is strapped to the instep of the shoe. Screwed into the frame are 10 spikes that are 1cm ...

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Kahtoola Microspikes (2012)

£46.00

Originally designed for running on snow and ice, the Kahtoola Microspikes have proved their worth for walkers who are looking for a little more performance than pavement or commuter traction devices can offer. They comprise of a rubber cradle that comes in five sizes to fit over footwear. There is a chain frame underfoot that allows areas of the footwear ...

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Yaktrax Pro (2012)

£22.00

The Yaktrax Pros have steel coils that wrap around a rubber cradle along the base, and it is these coils that provide the grip. Fitting is very easy as you simply stretch them over your footwear from toe to heel. They benefit from a Velcro strap across the top, which helps to keep them in place on more uneven ground ...

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Ice Trekkers Diamond Grip (2012)

£40.00

These are a slightly more durable option, making them a little more suitable for those more uneven valley tracks and bridleways that are muddy and rocky in summer and frozen hard in winter. The extra durability comes from a steel cable around the base that is fitted with a series of diamond-shaped beads, which have six spikes each. These steel ...

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Black Diamond Raven Pro 2012

£90.00

The Black Diamond Raven Pro is the stripped-down version of the Raven, Black Diamond’s basic mountaineering ice axe. It is a stunning tool and has long been a favourite with Trail. The Pro version comes with a sleek, gripless shaft and a trimmed-down pick and adze. The balance is very much that of a walking axe and although it will ...

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Climbing Technology Alpine Tour 2012

£60.00

The Alpine Tour is Climbing Technology’s classic mountaineering axe. Its key features are a bent shaft and fairly aggressive pick. The shaft bend is close to the head, which is nicely sculpted. Both of these features make it comfortable to carry when walking. The bend close to the head leaves a long, clean section of shaft for plunging when a ...

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Edelrid Raid 2012

£125.00

A modular head – complete with reverse curved pick – highlights the technical nature of the Edelrid Raid. A hammer head can replace the adze so that when used as a pair the Raid can be a climbing tool. But don’t be deceived; although it’s very handy on steep ice and mixed ground it’s just as able on gentler slopes. ...

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Petzl Sum ’Tec 2012

£140.00

New this year, the Petzl Sum ’Tec is a welcome development, particularly if you fancy some winter climbing. The shaft shares the same bend profile as the well-proven Petzl Summit, but instead of a fixed pick it has a reverse bend modular pick. This combination, while making placements in steep ice and snow more positive, still has enough length to ...

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Camp Névé 2012

£50.00

The Camp Névé is a simple, stripped-down walking axe. The functional adze and pick are well-shaped for chopping steps, daggering and even a bit of front pointing. The pick has a particularly fine profile with a good selection of teeth that will penetrate snow and ice well. The shaft although lacking a rubber grip does have a roughened surface and ...

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Grivel Nepal SA 2012

£75.00

The Grivel Nepal SA is a beautifully constructed traditional-style walking ice axe with a slightly bent shaft. The cast head is a work of art and is armed with a decent-sized welded adze that will cut steps with ease, and a pick with a full set of aggressive teeth. The shaft is gently curved with a recessed rubber grip and ...

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Camp Magix 2012

£85.00

An interesting crampon offering 10 points, of which two are normal curved front points and the remaining eight vertical ones are rotated at 45º. This set-up is designed to reduce snow balling. The flex is fairly relaxed and the spikes are not too long, a combination which makes walking easy. Fitting is via toe and heel cradles with a nylon ...

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Grivel Air Tech New Matic – Heel Clip 12 Point 2012

£130.00

The Grivel Air Tech New Matic – Heel Clip 12 Point is a well-thought-out and very capable crampon. The 12 point spike arrangement has a mix of long and short spikes with serrated back edges. This spike set-up is perfect for both snow and ice, but will also cope with prolonged movement over the rock and mixed ground that is ...

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Climbing Technology Nuptse 2012

£85.00

At £85 for a set of 12 point semi-automatic crampons the Climbing Technology Nuptses are extremely good value. The build quality is robust and businesslike rather than slick, and they lack some of the finer details found on higher-priced products, but importantly they do all the things you would expect from a C2 crampon. The spike configuration is fairly traditional ...

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Black Diamond Contact Strap 2012

£100.00

The Black Diamond Contact Strap is a superb stainless steel crampon offering low weight and high build quality. It comes with anti-balling plates – an elaborate design to improve resistance to snow balling. You get 10 points, and four of these are rotated through 90º to improve grip on slopes. Some 3D stamping adds strength. Adjustment is simple and the ...

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Stubai Trekking 10 Point Universal 2012

£82.00

The Stubai Trekking 10 Point Universal is a 10-point crampon that is exceptionally compact, and for its price fairly light, making it ideal for those who tend to carry their crampons in their rucksack and use them only occasionally on their boots. The crampon has two points that are turned through 90 degrees to help with stability on slopes. There ...

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Petzl Lynx 2012

£190.00

New this season from Petzl, Lynx crampons bring an alternative twist to crampon options. Aimed at the higher end of the grade scale, they come with a combination of modular front points and interchangeable front bindings so that they can fulfil a number of roles. Set up with a front bail arm and either asymmetric or mono front points, they ...

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Mountain Info Service Hillwalking App

Constructed with the input of the British Mountaineering Council, Mountain Leader Training UK, Sports Wales, the Met Office and the Welsh Assembly, this goes some way to being a do-it-all app for walkers. There are all sorts of facets to it, including the standard fare such as a Google Maps interface, but a few of this app’s features – including ...

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Hill-Finder UK Hillwalking App

£1.50

Here’s a cute and clever little app, which allows you to identify hills in your sphere of view, then gives you useful information about them. Included in its database are around 5,000 British hills, the position of which relative to you is interpreted by using the phone’s built-in GPS chip and onboard compass to determine your position and the direction ...

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Memory-Map Hillwalking App

£19.49

As well as being an excellent standalone navigation app, this is particularly useful for those who already have Memory-Map installed on their computer. You have two choices: the Memory-Map Free app, which uses only online-purchased maps; or the Memory-Map full app (£19.49), which allows you to export mapping from your PC to your iPhone. For those who already have Memory-Map ...

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ViewRanger Premium Hillwalking App

£14.99

ViewRanger is one of the biggest hitters in the phone navigation world: indeed, this is actually the most downloaded outdoor app. It’s also a thoughtful and versatile program that has proven itself a hit across a massive range of touch-screen smartphones, as well as being put to the test by 50 per cent of search and rescue teams across the ...

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Hill Lists hillwalking app

£1.49

While technology favours the smartphone’s use as a navigation aid, geo-tagger or similarly high-concept tool, it can be just as much use as a handy reference – especially fore those who are goal-oriented. Hill Lists is a nifty and well-featured interactive referencing app that includes info on just about every conceivable database of UK hills, including the Munros, Corbetts, Wainwrights, ...

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Rab Stretch Neo

Rab’s first jacket to use Polartec’s all-new Neoshell membrane. It’s this element that is really key to the jacket’s uniqueness. It claims to be much more breathable than other membrane equivalents. In use that certainly seems to be the case, and even on hard ascents on cold days there was no trace of condensation. Aside from the stretch fabric, this ...