Bryan Ritchie seems to know his way around the bush - I have been watching his videos and they are really interesting
He is an Ashley man - but clips on Cyprus 6 crampons for real traction
I have seen other stuff on Google where Guys are using Ashleys and clipping on Kovea in-step crampons
I tried to find both Cyprus 6 and Kovea crampons yesterday round Tauranga - but the Kovea ones at H&F didn’t have ratchet tie downs so I didn’t do it
I am just getting to the end of a pair of AKU boots - bought them about six years back from a Ham retailer that was shutting down - lovely comfortable boots with good open tread - but the front sole came off after a year or so and the retailer had gone - took them to a boot repair man in Tauranga - $80 to glue them together again - came off a few months later - back to the repair man - he said he would try again and just keep bringing them back if they failed - well they started coming off again about a month back - I didn’t ask him to fix them again but he said try some Shoe Goo - $10 - bloody amazing stuff and they seem to be holding together again for the last four trips - but it doesn’t look nice - I will keep them going until they rip apart then try some new ones
I tried Ashleys yesterday at Farmlands - but they are bastard things to get in and out of and seemed to have little ankle support so I didn’t do it
I went over to Hamilton a week or so back to check out a real good boot shop - Trek N Travel - I like the look of Vasque Eriksson - but they were half a size too big or small and didn’t have the size 10 that I needed - so will have to go back some time - I want an open clunky tread pattern that won’t fill up with mud and become slippery
I am going to try some crampons under my old boots as the tread is worn down - the bush tracks I use while trapping are very slippery at present and I am sick of sliding off roots - I used to love tricounis while meat hunting - so clip on steel crampons seems like a good idea at present
Check out the GoneBush man - Bryan Ritchie - https://gonebush.org/videos/gear-and...ll-conditions/
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