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Buyer's Guide
The difference between a winter hiker and a fair-weather hiker is about $26 to $85 of steel. We ranked the five traction systems worth strapping to a boot on the ladder that actually decides the purchase: coils for sidewalks and flat packed snow, spikes for real trails and ice, and full crampons for the steep mountaineering that none of these are, with listed spike counts doing the honest talking.
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