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Cheap pants that can be used for glissading?
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:19 pmby Luciano136
The title pretty much says it all. Looking for something not too warm that won't rip right away when you glissade in them. Checked REI but they said the cheaper ones won't hold up? Wondering if there's anything good online.
Thx!!
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 10:32 pmby Autoxfil
Are you willing to give up breathability? How light is light? How cheap is cheap? Do they need to be waterproof?
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:25 pmby Luciano136
Autoxfil wrote:Are you willing to give up breathability? How light is light? How cheap is cheap? Do they need to be waterproof?
Waterproof is probably the most important feature. With light I just mean not too warm. I have a pair of North Face skipants that work well for really cold weather but I'm the warm type; I don't get cold easily. Anything above freezing is pretty much shorts weather LOL
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:25 pmby adventurer
I've used Marmot Precip pants (about $100 new) on several glissades without a problem.
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:48 pmby colint
maybe you could just wear a diaper made from a tarp over your normal climbing pants when you are planning on glissading. I bet that can be made cheaply, and it would look really amazingly cool.
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:55 pmby 96avs01
just bite the bullet and learn to ski or board, you will never glissade again.
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:58 pmby Luciano136
colint wrote:maybe you could just wear a diaper made from a tarp over your normal climbing pants when you are planning on glissading. I bet that can be made cheaply, and it would look really amazingly cool.
That would definitely win the coolness award
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Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:59 pmby Luciano136
96avs01 wrote:just bite the bullet and learn to ski or board, you will never glissade again.
Now, that's a lot of weight
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:02 amby 96avs01
Luciano136 wrote:96avs01 wrote:just bite the bullet and learn to ski or board, you will never glissade again.
Now, that's a lot of weight
true, but skinning is so much faster than slowshoes, i mean snowshoes
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 4:56 amby Pallando
Or just do standing glissade. It's safer anyway.
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:07 amby Luciano136
Pallando wrote:Or just do standing glissade. It's safer anyway.
How exactly is a standing glissade safer?
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:31 amby Pallando
Luciano136 wrote:Pallando wrote:Or just do standing glissade. It's safer anyway.
How exactly is a standing glissade safer?
You can see rocks and have much more control.
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:34 amby SLCompulsion
Slip a heavy duty trash bag over your pants bottom. Like the diaper suggestion.
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 2:04 pmby dskoon
adventurer wrote:I've used Marmot Precip pants (about $100 new) on several glissades without a problem.
That seems about the standard. Many people have these.
And, ran into some guys on Adams once who were using cut-out garbage sacks, like a diaper. Was working well for them.
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:36 pmby DudeThatMustHurt
SLCompulsion wrote:Slip a heavy duty trash bag over your pants bottom. Like the diaper suggestion.
that or a small piece of weathermate plus or tyvek.. drive by any construction site and they will probably give you a scrap for free.. that cheap enough? and weighs next to nothing