Double boots?
24 September 2011 - 3:41pm
Some might find my conclusion interesting.
"I have probably spent more time in plastic double boots that any other style of mountain boots Two decades to be exact. I was climbing in leather single boots before that for the most part with the occasional foray into leather double boots. But the older and better double leather boots were heavy. Really heavy even compared to a good single boot and a Super Gator.
So what I ended up with was a very good pair of leather single boots (Haderer) and a custom pair of Carmen/Chouinard Super Gaters that were modified by adding more insulation (synthetic pile) and a zipper down the front that was backed with flaps and Velcro.
Once I got into a pair of Kolfach Ultras (shown above) I never looked back. Even if that did require a few layers of mole skin every week during the first winter season climbing and guiding in them."
More here on what is currently easily available in double boots in NA and the EU.
Hell Yeah Dane. I climbed in Koflach Ultras for 20 years until the plastic shell wore so thin that it was like paper. When my boots got warm they bent over my forefeet due to a collapse in rigidity because of warmth. In cold conditions they stayed stiff enough enough for me climb WI4. My boots were US12 and the plastic shell was worn thin from many days of serious moraine bashing on the mountain.
Unfortunately the narrowness of this Koflach Plastic boot caused a painful stress fracture in my toe bones that I am still dealing with 15 years after retiring from serious climbiing in plastic boots.
If plastics were to ever have their place again they need to much wider, but with a heat adjustible inner boot which takes all foot width difference into account.
Shutchoassup biarch njus climb ehbro ?