{"id":1227,"date":"2009-01-19T21:21:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T21:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/blog\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:13:47","slug":"a-useful-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/a-useful-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"A useful discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are times when you learned something new that you wonder why you didn't find it before. My discovery is that I have in my possession a part of boots that take crampons, even if their maker recommends emergency use. The boots in question are the Scarpa ZG10's that have featured on here a few times already; I think that I may be beginning to get a handle and making them fit me better, so long as laces don't loosen, that is. Apparently, they are rated B0\/B1 and that means that they can take flexible crampons like Grivel<\/a>'s G10 New Classic (classified as C1). The result of that revelation is that any barrier to a greater enjoyment of those ephemeral episodes when white wonderlands greet us has lowered just a little for me. For my tentative steps forward, it looks as if the Scarpas have a little more to offer, and I intend to treat the possibilities in a manner to acquiring a first SLR camera: there are advanced functions that allow you to grow and advance, but a spot of learning is in order first. I suppose that I need to watch that recently acquired BMC winter skills DVD before proceeding any further. I may not need new boots, but I need to know what I am doing with crampons before attempting to use them to avoid doing anything daft, overly adventurous or unsafe. A journey continues...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are times when you learned something new that you wonder why you didn’t find it before. My discovery is that I have in my possession a part of boots that take crampons, even if their maker recommends emergency use. The boots in question are the Scarpa ZG10’s that have featured on here a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,32,33],"tags":[1245,1342,927,1244,890,1340,1564,1253],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoor-gear","category-outdoor-skills","category-walking","category-weather","tag-boots","tag-crampons","tag-culture","tag-footwear","tag-manufactured-goods","tag-mountaineering-equipment","tag-musicians","tag-scarpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assortedexplorations.com\/outdoors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}