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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Recta DP 6G 2011

£75.00

Also sporting a global needle for worldwide use, but offering a radical and appealing design, is Recta’s DP 6G. This matchbox-style compass offers a protective case that slides open to reveal a beautifully made bezel with a smooth action, luminous markings in all the right places for efficient night navigation, adjustable declination to get your magnetic north behaving the same ...

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Suunto MC-2 Global 2011

£70.00

If you’re after a fully-featured mirror sighting compass that’ll work anywhere in the world, then the Suunto MC-2 Global is a sound investment. Most ‘normal’ compasses run into problems if you take them into the wrong hemisphere (ie a northern hemisphere compass won’t function properly if you go too far south of the equator), but a global needle has enough ...

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Montane eVent Superfly Trousers 2011

£130.00

The mid-priced Montane eVent Superfly Trousers strike a fine balance between technicality and simplicity. They may lack features such as belt loops, pockets and a fly zip, but they do have reinforced ankles, backside and knees, a drawstring at the ankle for volume adjustment, and water-resistant zips. They feel like trousers that have had some serious thought over the essential ...

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Páramo Cascada Trousers 2011

£115.00

Páramo is unconventional in its approach to waterproofing. Shunning membranes, it utilises Nikwax Analogy fabric, which mimics the action of animal fur. The outer fabric is only water-resistant, but a unique ‘pump’ layer pushes water back out of the fabric, ditto condensation. Apart from this well-proven system, the Páramo Cascada Trousers have two boons: they’re soft, which makes them both ...

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Rohan Dry Ascent / Dry Roamers 2011

£100.00

The Rohan Dry Ascent / Dry Roamers trousers prefer their waterproofing to be a little more covert. Rohan amusingly describes the Dry Ascent as ‘waterproof trousers for people who hate wearing waterproof overtrousers’, and that’s about the size of it. The face fabric has one of those ‘it’s not really waterproof, is it?’ feels. The secret is Rohan’s Barricade, a ...

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The North Face Venture 2011

£60.00

The presence of The North Face’s distinctive decal on these trousers (the lowest-priced here) certainly ups the cred – and the expectations. At 210g, the Venture trousers are certainly light: made of seam-sealed 2.5 layer HyVent DT fabric (the ‘point five’ refers to a microgrid print layer on the inner, which separates the fabric from the skin and increases airflow), ...

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PHD Minimus Down Vest 2011

£125.00

If you feel the chill or have some serious cold-weather mountaineering planned then the PHD Minimus Down Vest is the right gilet for you. It uses high-quality 800 fill power down to deliver extreme warmth despite weighing a tiny 240g (size M). It also packs down seriously small, so it’s perfect for stashing in your pack for chilly lunch stops ...

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Páramo Torres Gilet 2011

£78.00

Gilets are really useful as throw-on lunch stop insulation, so one designed specifically as an outer layer makes obvious sense. The Páramo Torres Gilet has a windproof, water-repellent Nikwax outer that can be treated to increase wet-weather performance – although our tests found that it was remarkably waterproof even without additional treatment. The fast-drying synthetic fill lends itself to use ...

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Rab Generator Vest 2011

£75.00

A gilet that packs away into its own inner pocket and can be used as a camping pillow? You’ve got to admit that’s pretty cool. The Rab Generator Vest uses synthetic Primaloft to deliver damp-proof insulation. It doesn’t quite pack the warmth-per-gram punch of down, but it does hold up much better against our typical British mountain weather conditions. The ...

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Berghaus Scorch Vest 2011

£75.00

The women’s Berghaus Scorch Vest is made mainly from Polartec Thermal Pro material, which is fleecy and soft to the touch. This fabric claims to trap body heat using lofted (fluffed-up) fibres, and if it’s ultimate cosiness you’re after, then it certainly feels snug to wear. The great advantage of fleece gilets such as the Scorch is that they’re highly ...

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Mountain Equipment Orion Vest 2011

£70.00

The first thing that’s apparent about the Mountain Equipment Orion Vest is its rugged durability. The fabric is EXOlite II, which is hard-wearing as well as having four-way stretch for freedom of movement. It was one of the most water-resistant gilets in our test, and would certainly see off intermittent showers on the hill, as well as providing a breathable ...

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Kathmandu Batangsi 2010

£50.00

Kathmandu is relatively new to the UK but it’s very good for travel gear. Their Batangsi pants are the only trousers we’ve seen that have the option of 3/4 length or full zip-off legs. The zip, however, could rub and cause problems if you have larger thighs. There are lots of pockets on offer, and the material wicks effectively to ...

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Merrell Belay 2010

£50.00

Merrell’s Belay trousers come with plenty of stretch, making them very comfortable, if not a little reminiscent of a pair of jodhpurs. These are very practical and technical enough for a day out on the hill. With a UV protection factor (UPF) of 50 these are made for hot weather, and as they are breathable and quick-wicking you shouldn’t be ...

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