{"id":25732,"date":"2022-03-08T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T22:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/?p=25732"},"modified":"2022-03-08T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T22:36:19","slug":"25732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/2022\/03\/08\/img-news\/25732\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympus Mons Cubes Crampon Compatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Climbers with La Sportiva Olympus Mons Cube Boots:<\/strong> Our climbers and guides have noticed a few issues with crampon compatibility with their Olympus Mons Cube Boots. While it&#8217;s important to check the compatibility of your boots and crampons regardless of the brand or type, here are a few observations Senior Guides Justin Merle and Porter McMichael have made regarding the Olympus Mons Cubes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Petzl crampons with the Leverlock heel binding and the metal toe bail were compatible with the Olympus Mons Cubes.\u00c2\u00a0 If you buy the Leverlock version of any Petzl crampons, they come with both a plastic front piece and a wire toe bail\u00e2\u20ac\u201dyou need to put the wire bail (see below diagram).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Petzl-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"830\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Petzl-Pic.jpg 830w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Petzl-Pic-300x166.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Petzl-Pic-768x425.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Petzl-Pic-620x343.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Petzl-Pic-195x108.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 830px) 100vw, 830px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black Diamond crampons with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wide\u00e2\u20ac\u009d toe bail were compatible with the Olympus Mons Cubes, but not the standard toe bail that comes with the crampon.\u00c2\u00a0 The Wide Toe Bail is available for an additional purchase and should work with any of Black Diamond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pro\u00e2\u20ac\u009d crampon binding options, but not the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Strap\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Clip\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-25734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Toe-Bail-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Toe-Bail-Pic.jpg 384w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Toe-Bail-Pic-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Toe-Bail-Pic-158x195.jpg 158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grivel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crampomatic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d step in crampon binding was not compatible with the Olympus Mons Cubes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Generally, strap on, or hybrid (lever in back, strap in front) bindings were not compatible with the Olympus Mons Cubes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Climbers with La Sportiva Olympus Mons Cube Boots: Our climbers and guides have noticed a few issues with crampon compatibility with their Olympus Mons Cube Boots. While it&#8217;s important to check the compatibility of your boots and crampons regardless of the brand or type, here are a few observations Senior Guides Justin Merle and Porter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-img-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25736,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25732\/revisions\/25736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountainguides.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}