I’d really like to lighten my feet up this winter. For my overnights I use north face men’s chillcat 400g boots —> https://www.thenorthface.com/shop/mens-verbera-utility
They are fine. Stiff enough for basic crampon use, micro spike and snowshoe friendly. The issues are their weight and they eventually wet out. Putting them inside the bivy or tent at night keeps them from becoming ice blocks but don’t be fooled, these boots are huge. I had to get a 14 so they would fit.
I’m grasping the concept of my vapor barrier suit and winter activities more and more each year. I’m not looking to be ice climbing all winter. We do a lot of snow shoeing, camping. A boot that could handle a set of crampons would be great. I’d also like a removable liner? I think that’s the issue I’m
having finding some warm/light. I’m fine with adding some sort of vapor barrier daily to my feet, layering socks, maybe needed a goretex sock to keep the set up light but in short, the lightest boot set up that I can get to max -temp out of. If the night temp without windchill is below -25ish Id probably stay home. Any advice would be great. Is this piece of gear even out there?
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