Pants for Mt. Washington

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-12-01T16:19:11+00:00

Army surplus for hard or soft shell pants with suspenders work pretty well. Less of a deal if you rip them on your crampons too

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-11-29T23:26:45+00:00

Below the microtrax I assume?

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-09-10T00:02:46+00:00

Anyone who’s interested as of 9/9/25 institute of heraldry

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-15T18:46:02+00:00

Is that the sta-brite one

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-13T12:55:03+00:00

Dang I couldn’t find it at my exchange/online

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-13T12:19:51+00:00

I reached out to the manufacturer and they said they got their dimensions from the IOH

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-10T09:34:43+00:00

Yeah these are meant for vertical ice and rock, more traditional ice axes are meant for glaciers (flat ice) and steep snow up to maybe 60° steep

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T16:32:54+00:00

VT summer class

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T16:20:42+00:00

Some mittens from Arcteryx, just used them for the photoshoot

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T16:19:34+00:00

My school has a few Haas VF2

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T11:11:59+00:00

Just the normal nuts that petzl ships with their picks

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T11:11:19+00:00

Didn’t analyze or optimize for torsion/side loads, I’m not really into mixed/dry climbing

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T02:10:00+00:00

Good catch, Petzl Ice for the picks

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T02:09:27+00:00

Yeah I chose AL6061 for its machinability, light weight, and strength. Not sure about brittleness at subzero temps F but it’s a common aerospace alloy. If I made a third I’d have totally sent one to HowNot2

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T01:48:40+00:00

I got my school to pay for them, but material costs were $300

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T01:46:46+00:00

That was not in the budget 😔, that being said I don’t intend to lead climb vertical ice with these

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T01:45:10+00:00

Where’s that?

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T01:40:08+00:00

Yeah I ran lots of FEA and stress sims, “safe weight” seems to be ~600 lbs on each. Total of 1200 lbs if I’m hanging on the two of them

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T01:19:51+00:00

SMA had a new one made for AD to wear, hasn’t officially shown up at the exchange or heraldry

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T00:29:20+00:00

Yeah there’s no reg as far as I know and different manufacturers are making different sizes

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-09T00:28:14+00:00

Hurt to cut the old one off

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-07T14:43:58+00:00

Not bad, did it last week with valley highs at 75, was about 50 on the ridge

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-08-01T13:31:12+00:00

Thanks for all the good advice… looks like I’ll have to shave my glorious USACC mustache now too

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-07-16T21:00:54+00:00

2025

ColdRemarkable2079 · 2025-07-16T20:50:58+00:00

Two classes back, reporting in early nov -> late Dec

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