Gear Review: Grivel Quantum Light ice axe

During the ice climbing course I did recently, I used some new gear. Next to the Petzl Lynx crampons, also new were a pair of Grivel Quantum Light ice axes.

Grivel Quantum Light ice axes, 1 with adze and 1 with hammer

 I modified the axes a little bit before I used them, which becomes obvious if you compare the picture above with this stock-image:

Gear Review: Petzl Lynx crampons

I've used the new Petzl Lynx crampons for the Ice Climbing course I did recently, and have already mentioned them in the post about Ice Climbing Gear. I thought I would also do a more in-depth review.

Petzl describe the Lynx crampons as modular crampons for ice and mixed climbing, with leverlock universal bindings. 'Modular' refers to the changeable frontpoints and bindings of the Lynx.

Ice Climbing & Gear

There are a few things on my list of climbing-things-to-do, one of them is learning how to climb Trad.

Another item on that list I was able to check off today; this past week I've been Ice Climbing in Leusens, Austria.

Leading part of the Gasthausfall, Luesens, Tirol, Austria.

Ice Climbing is pretty gear intensive; you need a lot of it, especially for long routes.

Denali: gear that worked & gear that didnt, before I totally forget

True to the name of the blog; on my trip to Denali I took a fairly big pile of gear.

  

A lot of it worked great, with some, I had some issues. All items are important, but some more then others. I would say the most important items are: