Just want a quick check on if this makes sense or is really stupid.Recently did a 4-day avalanche course and found my Salomon Quest 4Ds ample in terms of warmth and support in all ways except having the rigidity in the toes for high angle snow. I don't intend to use this proposed setup for high-exposure front-pointing or anything. Just want to postpone having to buy fully fledged mountaineering boots and make mine a bit more comfortable for use in non-technical terrain.Idea is I can wear them as hiking boots on approach then pop the insoles in when I put crampons on to bring them up to (or close) to a full shank mountaineering boot. They're comfy for approaches as well so saves me carrying boots+trail runners like some people do.
>>2756355>All the cushioning of carbon>All the durability of fiber
>>2756355Hmmm, this is an actually interesting idea. Most of the worry regarding using boots other than rigid mountaineering boots comes from the notion that steel crampons will pop off your flexible boots. then again companies also make flexible (they are more rigid than you would think) linking bars for crampons to enable better use of flexible shoes. I can Imagine the carbon fiber insole would be a good bet that it works out better with that too.
Carbon fiber is only strong in 2 dimensions (or 1 if it's not made out properly). Given how thin the sole is and the pattern I'm suspecting the 2 dimensions are the plane you are walking in, so that sole would bend under perpendicular pressure to your sole and/or break.I've never tried carbon fiber soles though, so maybe I am missing something and they somehow managed to lay the fibers in such a way that they are strong to perpendicular forces.
>>2756355This is valid, Kilian says he does something similar to what you are describing
