Accessories
Common ice axe accessories include:
- Leash — nylon webbing with an adjustable loop for securing the axe to hand. Often secured by a ring constrained to slide a limited distance on the shaft.
- Leash stop — a rubber keeper or metal stud preventing the leash from slipping off of the ice axe.
- Snow basket — similar to baskets on ski poles, temporarily mounted on the shaft close to the spike to keep the shaft from sinking into soft snow.
- Pick and adze guard — a cover to protect from sharp edges and points when the axe is not being used.
- Spike guard — a cover to protect from the sharp spike when the axe is not being used.
Read more about this topic: Ice Axe
Famous quotes containing the word accessories:
“I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.”
—Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)