By Zach.Moore
From Duluth, MN
Mar 5, 2011
| How do ya'll carry your fruit boots to the crag?
Guards? Just put them in the pack and hope they don't poke through? Carry them? | 
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By jack s.
From Kamloops, BC
Mar 6, 2011
| | Fruit Boots
Submitted By: jack s. on Mar 6, 2011
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Fruit Boots...nothing fruity about them but the name! Not sure that the purse would be best option...unless, perhaps, it is a leather purse.
I have a buddy that stores all of his sharp stuff in a cordura saddlebag, which seems to work well. If you need something bigger, SECO (www.surveying.com) makes several cordura bags for construction workers that may work.
I am sure someone will be smart enough to turn this last comment into something more than it was intended to be... |
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By John Wilder
From Las Vegas, NV
Mar 6, 2011
| wait. they're called fruitboots? seriously? |
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By Zach.Moore
From Duluth, MN
Mar 6, 2011
| Any more ideas? 1 out of 4 isn't too bad. I might just sew something up to put on them. These mothers are sharp |
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By Ice4life
From SLC, UT
Mar 6, 2011
| I carry mine on the compression straps on the side of my pack. Pointy side out obviously. It works just fine for me, no fancy crap, just strap em to the outside like regular crampons, there just bulkier.
When im done, i put them in the trunk of my car off my pack so they don't cut anything as stuff shifts around.
Can we please start calling them something else other than fruit boots please.. If enough people start calling them something different, eventually it will catch on.
Anyone got good ideas? |
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By Zach.Moore
From Duluth, MN
Mar 6, 2011
| Ice4life wrote: Anyone got good ideas? |
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By Ice4life
From SLC, UT
Mar 6, 2011
| Zach.Moore wrote: Fixed-crampon Boots? Nope. No flow...shoot
Better than fruit boots.....
When people ask me what they are I say ice climbing comp. boots... But then I get the question "oh so your like a professional ice climber whats your name?!?!?!?!?!" ... |
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By Woodchuck ATC
Mar 6, 2011
| use a piece of dense styrofoam pad on the points, then shove in a canvas tote bag. Wrap it up in your luggage then. |
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By Zach.Moore
From Duluth, MN
Mar 6, 2011
| Good Call!!! Those will work great for these:
...not |
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By Blake Cazier
From duluth MN
Mar 6, 2011
| ethafoam or mincell foam lasts and does not brake or split like rigid/dense/hard foams
ask a kayak shop - Duluth ski hut gets boats every year with pillars of foam to protect deck collapse during shipping
I flew ice tools and crampons many times with no pack damage |
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By Ice4life
From SLC, UT
Mar 6, 2011
| Zach.Moore wrote: Good Call!!! Those will work great for these: ...not
Talk about SUPER FRUITY BOOTS..... Yah know do they really have to make it that bad for us...
Why didn't they just put rainbows with a galloping unicorn on it... I mean com'on |
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By England
From ?
Mar 6, 2011
| jack s. wrote: Fruit Boots...nothing fruity about them but the name!
I don't know about that. Look kind of fruity to me. Especially the ones with the dragons on them. Seen that Miller commercial??? |
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By Scott McMahon
From Boulder, CO
Mar 6, 2011
| Knew this would be a flamefest the moment I saw the thread...Thanks (and sorry) Zach! |
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By KevinF
From Granby, CT
Mar 6, 2011
| I just wear mine to the crag. |
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By Zach.Moore
From Duluth, MN
Mar 6, 2011
| 2 actually useful posts so far, not bad.
@ Blake - Thanks for the tip.
Also, I got these boots because the design matches my silky button up dragon shirts. But seriously, you can't be picky when you get a great deal on high end boots. |
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By bigwallrog
From the farside
Mar 8, 2011
| Well they look pretty fruity to me
I think anyone who would wear a pair of those boots prolly has 3 or 4 man purses hanging around so just grab one to use this will keep ya from poking yourself in the Mangina during transport |
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By Evan1984
Mar 8, 2011
| bigwallrog wrote: Well they look pretty fruity to me I think anyone who would wear a pair of those boots prolly has 3 or 4 man purses hanging around so just grab one to use this will keep ya from poking yourself in the Mangina during transport
And we all look really manly prancing around the gym in our purple ballet slippers? |
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By Chris Plesko
From Westminster, CO
Mar 8, 2011
| Evan Horvath aka Evan1984 wrote: And we all look really manly prancing around the gym in our purple ballet slippers?
...triming and filing our nails and complaining that our shoes hurt our tootsies.
If the OP likes his fruit boots, what do you care? |
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By Zach.Moore
From Duluth, MN
Mar 8, 2011
| If you're about to post in this thread, might as well re-read the topic... |
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By Zach.Moore
From Duluth, MN
Mar 8, 2011
| bigwallrog wrote: Well they look pretty fruity to me I think anyone who would wear a pair of those boots prolly has 3 or 4 man purses hanging around so just grab one to use this will keep ya from poking yourself in the Mangina during transport
I wear them proudly. The only issue with your plan is that the silky lining of my purse may get punctured by the sharp front points :( |
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By Steven N
From CO
Jun 3, 2011
| You can either strap them to the outside of your pack or get some of those crampon point cap- thingys ang then put in your pack.
Grivel make s a pretty specialized pack for carrying fruitboots and stuff. |
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By jack roberts
Jun 3, 2011
| I've got an old CAMPUSA crampon case that opens up like a burrito. The Sportiva boots fit nicely inside and then I carry them beneath the lid of my pack. |
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By Jeff J
From Bozeman
Jun 3, 2011
| Zach.Moore wrote: How do ya'll carry your fruit boots to the crag? Guards? Just put them in the pack and hope they don't poke through? Carry them?
Put wine corks on the points and strap them to the out side of the pack with hand warmers stuffed in the boots so they are toasty when its time to put them on. |
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