MOUNTAINEERING BOOTS REVIEW the best winter boots you can buy | EVER | Scarpa Phantom Techs
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- Опубликовано: 12 янв 2022
- In this mountaineering boots review, I have to conclude that the best winter mountaineering boots you can buy in 2022 are - for my money, the Scarpa Phantom Techs, with their ultralight ethos, their high levels of comfort and their amazing levels of technical capability, there isn’t a better hiking or climbing boot out there. These B3 Boots will climb the highest graded climbs in the world, and also trek for days through easy terrain with ease. No mountaineering boot on the planet can quite achieve what Scarpa have pulled off here! Gone are the days of sore throbbing feet on those long Scottish winter walk ins, and gone are the days of cold damp feet and hard to dry, heavy leather boots. The future is here! So let’s climb into it!
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Class love your Chanel u know that 🙄🤭🤗 keep Safe thanks for reviewing I'm going to get a pair myself 🤗
Cheers!! I highly recommend these boots if you want something that can climb technical routes and trek all day long...although not the cheapest...
@@adventurefilmclub2549 thanks your video just help me to decide 🤗 no cheap but u buy once for good few years I would hope 🙄😁
I am still on my Scarpa Phantom Gide and will probably be buying the Techs or whichever equivalent updated model Scarpa comes out with by the time my current pair die. When I bought them I was split between the Sportiva Batura and the Phantom Gide... but the Sportiva didn't fit me (too narrow). So Scarpa it was. Great review btw!
Cheers! I was drooling over these new Phantom Techs online, but I'd actually ordered La Sportivas on sale when I got the email to say I'd won these! So glad I won them as they've been beyond what I expected from them, especially after being disappointed by how uncomfortable the previous model were!
Really like your video style and the content.
I live in a maritime alpine environment. I did a submersion test on some scarpa phantom guides and was reamed for having too high expectation for a winter boot when one became damp and the other I found to have a crampon hole and filled up completely. It was a 30 minute test. My question is. Are mountaineering boots not
waterproof, even though they advertise them with water proof membranes?
I can see what you have said about the Techs holding up in the Scottish bog. So I assume they are meant to hold up with water. But like anything will wet out over time.
Super review! I'm planning on climbing the matterhorn north face on spring and I want to buy a new boot. Do you recommend this boot or the scarpa phantom 6000? Many thanks in advance!
Hi, thanks! I'm not sure what the average temperature in spring is on the Matterhorn, but I'd say as long as it isn't consistently below -10C you'll be okay with these boots. I've had them out in some extreme temperatures of -10C in Scotland before and been okay wearing them, and I've stood on belay for hours at a time at -5 or so and been okay (with a lot of jumping around to keep the blood flowing).
It depends how much standing around on belay stances you'll be doing, if you're moving regularly you'll be fine with these boots I'd say. A good thermal sock system to boost their temperature rating will help too!
What routes are you looking at on the Matterhorn, I'm very keen to get up there myself in the next few years, and I'll probably be wearing these boots!!
@@adventurefilmclub2549 Thanks! I'm planning to climb up the classic Schmid route so I think that I won't stay static for more than 20 min on the hardest pitches.
From your experience this boots' active temperature is a bit lower than -10°C and the static temperature around -5°C? I'm not a cold feet person but I always prefer to bring a bit more warmth equipment than the expected temperatures. I climbed the Matterhorn with a basic semi rigid boot (from Simond, not as warm as the Scarpa Phantom Tech) last summer and I was warm the whole day. I'll take a closer look to the temperatures in spring before deciding. Do you have other routes in mind on the Matterhorn NF? Thanks again!
I've been using the Tech for 1 year now. In terms of technical capabilities - they are great boots. Unfortunately, I keep getting cold toes (to the point of numbness) for some reason at temperatures around 0C/-2-3C. I am 45.5/46 street size and have 47 Techs, which I wear with buffy warm wool socks. Do you have any tips on why this might be happening? I don't have the same issue with even running shoes at those temps and my lacing seems OK.
Impressive feat for impressive feet
Some people say puns are a low form of humour, but I think they can be punbelievably funny...
Hi,good video! I am in Asia, thinking to buy phantom tech online for hiking in Fuji mt this December. I'm worried about buying the wrong size and my toes will keep hitting the shoes and bruise when going downhill.
My foot length is 28cm, and my backpacking boots size is UK11, EU46 (Millet Bouthan GTX). About the size, could you give me some suggestions? Thank you.😊
Hi,
These are relatively wide in the front section, so if you go half a size up from your regular size that should be fine for downhill sections where your feet get pushed to the front of the boot! So an 11.5 UK size equivalent should suit you fine!
How is the sizing on these? Compared to the scarpa ribelle for example?
Hey, not too sure in comparison to the Ribelles, but I find these to be wider than the previous Phantom Techs, and reasonably suitable for wider feet. There's a tiny bit more room in the toe box with this new range of Scarpas apparently. In terms of the fit, for me I'm a size 10 in normal shoe size, and the 10.5 in these is a perfect fit.
how warm are these?
Hey, these are great for winter Mountaineering in the UK and Europe, or North America to some extent, but definitely not for the higher ranges of the world. They're great to -15C maybe, if you're moving. But not built for bagging 8000'rs 😉
Would you consider those boots to a 6000 mts peak?
I will try them on for a +6000m peak in Himalaya by next month and will try to let you know!
Thank you!! I will be very interested in knowning the details of that experience.
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So, is warm enough fore 6000+ like Mera Peak? Thanks
@@odyssey37 Thank you!!
another duckling review.probs to justify scarpa sending you another pair of shiny stuff.
comfort is not a metric. if you can walk in automatic boots, they are garbage.
Not sure what you're on about. Scarpa never sent me anything, and these are almost certainly the best B3 mountaineering and climbing boots out there. Can you name a better pair, able to climb the hardest mixed technical lines in the world, but also trek 15 miles in comfortably? And comfort I would argue is quite important if you climb somewhere like Scotland, with often long, non snowed up approach hikes to get to the snow line. I had the older model and they were technically impressive but crippling to walk in, so I got rid.
@@adventurefilmclub2549
la sportiva g2 sm, that are 100 eur (or even more) cheaper, warmer, have boa (and not stupid laces that work untill they dont, and you are all strapped in and cant' tighten or loosen anything), have functional gaiter (not a 2 inch mockup like scarpa, that eats spring snow just fine), have much better feeling when standing in crampons on an icefall ( as opposed to walking in phantom tech), dont leak warmth in 15 minutes when belaying someone on the same icefall.
I prefer walking in approach shoes (there is a hint in the naming), and walking has nothing to do with technicality.