Post by Bob FPost by AndrewDo they make crampons for hiking with sneakers in soft soils?
Sounds like a great way to totally trash the trails.
If there was a trail, I wouldn't need the sneaker crampons. :)
Nobody has hiked here probably in hundreds of years (or whatever).
The soils are all extremely soft with something like a 30 degree slope
(Maybe 40 degree? Maybe fifty? I don't know how to measure a slope).
Put your arm diagonally in front of your face and that's the slope.
What does this slope look like to you?
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And that's not even a steep one. Although a picture doesn't show how steep
it is when you're standing ready to fall down the slope with every step.
Nothing is flat. There is no trail. There is only a soft slope.
Anyway, the tiny spikes on the crampons showed seem too small.
I think it needs to be an inch or more to do any tractional good.
But maybe those teeny tiny spikes might work.
I'm thinking I need one inch spikes which can be easily removed.