{"id":6662,"date":"2012-12-19T23:11:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T09:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.studionewmedia.com\/blog\/?p=6662"},"modified":"2012-12-20T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T01:40:44","slug":"lowa-couloir-gtx-winter-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/12\/19\/lowa-couloir-gtx-winter-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowa Couloir GTX Winter Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Whoa!\u00c2\u00a0 Sweet!\u00c2\u00a0 These are like German ninja boots!\u00c2\u00a0 After slipping and sliding in Danner Desert boots in the snow last year, I got a pair of Lowa Couloir GTX boots to try.\u00c2\u00a0 These incorporate Lowa’s G3 sole unit which has dual-compound rubber lugs with textile “studs”.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the softer rubber lug center compound and the textile, these boots are just short of metal studs insofar as grip on packed snow and icy surfaces.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not sure how they came up with the textile idea, but it works.\u00c2\u00a0 The normal compound lends the sole normal traction, feel, and noise on everyday surfaces at normal to cold temperatures.\u00c2\u00a0 You’d be slipping and sliding on concrete and tile if you had metal studs, or didn’t take yout Yak Trax or similar traction devices off.\u00c2\u00a0 With the G3 sole, the transition between clear sidewalks, icy streets and snowy areas is seamless.\u00c2\u00a0 The only surface that these\u00c2\u00a0still have traction issues are streets covered with churned-up brown tire slush, which is where you’d really need the\u00c2\u00a0metal spikes or crampons.\u00c2\u00a0 The Partelana wool\/polyester fleece lining and wool felt insole kept the insides warm.\u00c2\u00a0 These are seriously the best thing I’ve ever walked in during winter hands down.\u00c2\u00a0 As a bonus, they’e not made in China!\u00c2\u00a0 Like my Scarpa Kailash GTX’s, they are made in an Eastern European republic.<\/p>\n

Highly recommended<\/p>\n

Four out of four monkeys not falling on their asses on the ice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whoa!\u00c2\u00a0 Sweet!\u00c2\u00a0 These are like German ninja boots!\u00c2\u00a0 After slipping and sliding in Danner Desert boots in the snow last year, I got a pair of Lowa Couloir GTX boots to try.\u00c2\u00a0 These incorporate Lowa’s G3 sole unit which has dual-compound rubber lugs with textile “studs”.\u00c2\u00a0 Between the softer rubber lug center compound and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJYlx-1Js","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studionewmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}