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Choosing Your Ice Axe: Know What You Need for Hiking, Mountaineering, and Climbing

Snow is fun. But hiking or climbing across sloping snow fields can mean a sliding fall. A sliding fall can mean injury... or worse. If you hike the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, the Colorado Trail, and other trails that hit high altitudes, you may want to consider using an ice axe. If you are getting into mountaineering, then you are going to want the right ice axe to meet your climbing style. How can you know which type of ice axe to get? What features work best for what self belay and self arrest situations? In this video, we are discussing standard picks and inverted picks, spikes, hammers, adzes, bent shafts, straight shafts, leashes, and even how to insulate your axe so you don't freeze your hands! Rather than tell you a particular model of ice axe to get, it may be better that you understand the tradeoffs between different designs and builds so that you can find the right axe for you. For more information on this topic, go to: https://www.shortguysbetaworks.com/al... To see all of our video and blog content, including gear lists, trip itineraries, links to the equipment we carry with us, and our additional thoughts on all of it, you can visit: https://www.shortguysbetaworks.com 0:00 Intro 0:16 Bumper 0:34 Should I Consider Using an Ice Axe? 1:16 The Primary Ways an Ice Axe is Used 2:01 The Parts of an Ice Axe 2:51 Spike Versus No Spike 3:15 Shaft Length 3:47 Shaft Bend 4:33 Standard Versus Inverted Picks 5:39 Adze Versus Hammer 6:19 Insulating Your Axe 6:54 Leashes 7:08 Summary of Tradeoffs 7:50 Recommendations 8:59 Weight Considerations 9:53 Outro A special thanks to Marisa Jarae for cinematography in our bumper: scenes that include me in the frame while in the Himalaya. Disclaimer: Please see the link for our disclaimer policy for all of our videos on the Short Guys Beta Works YouTube channel. https://www.shortguysbetaworks.com/di...