These are my "go to" choice of crampons for all terrain in the winter. Due to the configuration of the points, they are excellent for flat land walking as well as steep mixed climbing. They are well built, tough, and dependable. All the qualities of a really great tool. Plus, they fit my size 45 La Sportiva Makalus like they were made to be. All in all, a really great crampon. I would choose these over the light aluminum version any day. The ounces saved don't make up for the lowered life span and performance on thin ice and mixed ice/rock.

I'm mostly a backcountry skier/alpinist. These are great for both long walks on the flat, or climbing a coulior. Very very easy to adjust and use, good strapping. Although these are not supposedly for ski boot type applications, I use them that way as well as on my semi rigid semi-automatic type boots. Couldn't be happier.

I bought these crampons for my trip toMt. Rainier to do the Kautz glacier route. These crampons walk well, never came loose, and were easy to put on/take off. They also did a good job of sticking into the steep ice of the Kautz ice chutes. No complaints here!

I bought these to scramble around waterfalls,in the ice, I photograph them. These lock on to my Sportiva glacier boots like they were made for each other. I'm 48 and don't heal as fast as I used to, so stability is an issue. So far so good. I anticipate even more good things using this equipment