Snowboard Mountaineering

By Stephen Koch Ranked #13 - Backcountry Snowboarding June 7, 2011

I was on a trip to the Wrangle-St. Elias mountains last month and my partner had the Sum'Tec. I borrowed it for one descent and wouldn't give it back to him. This ax is a great tool for climbing steep snow couloirs. The Trigrest worked great and makes it easy to go from mountaineering tool to more technical tool in a few seconds by dropping the Trigrest down. The slight bend in the shaft was nice, especially for holding on descents. I banged the tool on my crampons to get rid of the balling (no anti-bot plates on the crampons I had).

Bottom line: a great light weight mountaineering ax.

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