Well, today we did the first early winter hike to Deer Prong Mountain just outside Nuuk in Greenland.
Dear Prong Mountain is a 1188 meter tall mountain and like all our mountains we get to hike them from sea level to peak
Du ring summer it is a relatively easy (yet quite steep towards the peak) hike and easily five fingerable. This time a year though the push to around 750 meters altitude is easy and much the same, just with added snow.
However, from here and to the peak (1188 meters) it is a steep icy and snowy hike, i managed to fit a pair of cramp-ons to my vivo neo trail and completed the trip as a true minimalistic hike.
In the future I will swallow my pride and mount boots when it is cramp-on and ice axe time, some of the vertical down climbs were not optimal with minimalistic footwear and called for a true climbing boot. If any body were to design a good cramp-on for minimalistic shoes I would be very tempted to go with that option though
So to all of you wondering, can you go minimalist in cramp ons, well yes you can and while it is fun and challenging it is not recommendable.
a few pictures:
The view to the saddle:
Talking lines:
One of the vertical sections:
A frozen world:
Dear Prong Mountain is a 1188 meter tall mountain and like all our mountains we get to hike them from sea level to peak
Du ring summer it is a relatively easy (yet quite steep towards the peak) hike and easily five fingerable. This time a year though the push to around 750 meters altitude is easy and much the same, just with added snow.
However, from here and to the peak (1188 meters) it is a steep icy and snowy hike, i managed to fit a pair of cramp-ons to my vivo neo trail and completed the trip as a true minimalistic hike.
In the future I will swallow my pride and mount boots when it is cramp-on and ice axe time, some of the vertical down climbs were not optimal with minimalistic footwear and called for a true climbing boot. If any body were to design a good cramp-on for minimalistic shoes I would be very tempted to go with that option though
So to all of you wondering, can you go minimalist in cramp ons, well yes you can and while it is fun and challenging it is not recommendable.
a few pictures:
The view to the saddle:
Talking lines:
A frozen world: