 Poster: A snowHead
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Hello
I have just been away skiing in Europe and I took my dogs with me. I have to say that I fell over when walking my dogs and as I leave them in the room all day I try to go back and walk them every few hours.
I have seen the Strider Ice Gripper (https://www.pricedropdonkey.com/cheap-sports-and-leisure/winter-sports-deals) on sale and they look to be dead cheap. It looks like they clip on over the shoe and have metal spikes that dig into ice and snow.
Has anyone used something like this and are they any good. I was also wondering whether or not you can walk on non-snow surfaces with them on. The thing is that I don't want to have to stop at the hotel door and put them on, with the dogs in tow. Bearing in mind I am taking them for a toilet stop, I wouldn't want them to drop and squat at the hotel doorway.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I wouldn't have thought most hotels would be very happy about you walking on their floors with metal spikes.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Several buildings locally have signs prohibiting crampons of any kind. I wear them all the time when it's icy outside but they're pretty quick to put on and off when you get used to them. I wouldn't wear them inside a hotel. I certainly wouldn't let anybody wear them in my apartment; indeed, everyone takes off their outside shoes at the door!
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@GimmieSnow, we used them all the time especially when dog walking, clip on and off any shoes, give instant grip and easy to get on and off!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Used the very cheap Aldi version in February for the first time. Very impressive on a brilliant walk up a frozen ice canyon in Canada.
I'd definitely recommended them.
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Bought a pair of those the day after I slipped on some ice in VT this Jan (and spent the following morning having my wrist x-rayed in the medical centre - thankfully just bruising). Definitely do the job, though you sound like you've just come off stage from River Dance when you're walking on tiled floors. They're studs on the bottom, not spikes btw.
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We have some Ruud Shoe chains, exactly the same as the snow chains for car tyres. No spikes, but they would scratch a floor.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I picked up some from Costco which were fine for snow and ice but when you walk on cleared surfaces (pavement or road) the metal spikes get bent over.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I've got Kahtoola Microspikes which I bought after going A-over-T on ice a few years ago and breaking my leg on ice, which was very inconvenient when you are working on a dancing on ice sort of show.
They're a bit more expensive (read - a lot more expensive) than the things you've linked to. But the benefit of being a sort of metal blade, as opposed to a pin spike, is that walking on concrete/tarmac doesn't wear them out, which does happen with the cheap ones.
Likewise, same problem that if you walk on somebody's wood floor they're liable to kill you. But the trouble with the cheap ones will be that when you are wearing them in places that the snow/ice has already disappeared, it'll wear the spikes down and make them less effective. With these things, they're not affected.
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The cheaper styles probably will wear out but then just buy new ones!
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