Yeti Gaiters

[neil_r]

I can't get the effing things on !!!!!!!!!!

 

[ELRIG]

I can't get the effing things on !!!!!!!!!!

your fingers sore yet?

 

[bewsher500]

warm them up first and wax the leather of the boot (or whatever you normally use)

open right up
put toe of boot right through the front hole so the rand comes half way up the laces

now concentrate on the heel.
get the heel through the rear rand hole by putting boot between knees with toe pointing down and heel pointing away from you.
pull rand away from you until over the join of sole/leather (welt)

flip boot over so sole is still pointing away from you
do the same with toe rand, you will trap your fingers, just deal with it. do a little at a time and wiggle them down to cover the welt again

repeat with other boot!

go have a beer, you will be too knackered to test them out today!

 

[gerarddwatts]

Use a vice and a ratchet strap!! Thats what I did!

 

[bewsher500]

Use a vice and a ratchet strap!! Thats what I did!

 

[ajfab]

you could always buy a decent pair of boots and a pair of black islander gaiters! far easier

 

[shotz]

have never used mine since 2001 forgot i had a pair till i noticed this thread still in good order ,not so good if you do a lot of crawling toe cover comes loose .shotz

 

[countrryboy]

impressed, toe's stayed on all day.

I found they a doddle to put on, if u google them some video's also come up, i watched 1 by rvop's? or something like that, exactly wot brewser says but sometimes easier to watch. I didnae have any pans big enough so used frying pan and jist enough water to cover the rubber bit and leaving it simmering for 10-15 mins.
I found it easier to put a foot in back of boot, boot on floor 1 hand on boot toe and other pulling the gaiter toe over the front (which i turned inside out so like a handle), nae bother or mibee beginers luck

 

[Cut+Squirt]

After seeing yours Countryboy i'm going to get a pair ordered.

 

[Buchan]

My Harkila boots are great, but now leak horribly, despite extra proofing. Do Yeti gaiters fit?

 

[deerstalker.308]

My Harkila boots are great, but now leak horribly, despite extra proofing. Do Yeti gaiters fit?

They fit most boots I think you’ll find, not brand specific . Hats off for waking up a nearly decade old thread by the way!!

 

[countrryboy]

My Harkila boots are great, but now leak horribly, despite extra proofing. Do Yeti gaiters fit?

Thats harkila for u.

They fitted on my harkila better than they did my mendls , but the design may well have changed, like deer308 said it is an old thread .
i'm pretty sure I did have to trim some of the grips around the arch to get the middle bit of the yeti's to lie flat and not get worn away too quick.
I usually silicon the toe onto the boot as they do tend to slip up, my mendls were bad for that.

It may seem drastic cutting soles/grips and siliconing or superglueing them on but wot good are a leaking pair of boots anyway? F all

 

[Siggy]

Berghaus made the Yeti gaiters before they ever manufactured boots and gave Scarpa the license to use the Attack sole units for use with the Yeti gaiters. Berghaus then started to manufacture their own boots and pulled the license for the Attack sole units from Scarpa.

There are therefore no Scarpa boots suitable for the Yeti gaiter. Unless you have an old pair with the attack sole unit.

that's really interesting, I had a pair of scrap SL Attack and was gutted when I found I couldn't replace them...now I know why.

 

[375 mag]

There crap I even glued mine in place but the first time out in the wet and they popped straight off. I've still got them if anybody wants to buy them.

 

[Dawnrazor]

There crap I even glued mine in place but the first time out in the wet and they popped straight off. I've still got them if anybody wants to buy them.

Now that's a sales pitch!!!

 

[tozzybum]

Tbh iuse Verney Caron hunting gaiters and without tempting fate they've been superb coupled with Haix cold weather boots.
3 dry seasons so far.
The Haix boots average about 60 quid on the bay of evil atb

 

[75]

They were originally designed for a specific scarpa sole so anything else is a compromise. They do fit other boots but some better than others.

 

[Mick9abf]

I use Yeti’s on the hill as luckily have an old set of Scarpa Mantas with the attack sole. Putting them on any other sole is going to be hit and miss and involve plenty aquasure to keep them in place.

A similar alternative is Crispi ‘Highlanders’ I think they call them which is a boot that has a similar gaiter permanently attached.

 

[Poola]

Be careful with fitting to Harkilas… my boots just weren’t stiff enough and bent like a banana when feet were out - and were also uncomfortable with feet in because of upward pressure either end… (the gaiters were correctly sized…) That said the Harkilas were an older pair which had a very flexible sole out of the box (which on the plus side made them very comfortable even if they did leak after 6 months!)
By the way ratchet to get rand over boot may be a good tip: I both pulled a muscle and broke a wooden spoon being used as a lever getting the gaiters on - and that was after heating the yeti rands through in water…

 

[Stalker-of-the-deer]

Fantastic bits of kit when paired with a propper boot with a good stiff sole. I'm talking b2/b3 mountaineering boots.

Don't bother with soft soles they pop off or turn your boot into an elf shoe.

If you get a blow out there a nightmare!

I ended up putting mine on with an ice axe as leverage and a good bit of fairy liquid.

Once that drama is over enjoy them! Never been wet in mine and I've been in water and snow upto my knees before in them