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On Sale: $40.00
Retail: $40.00
SKU #VOL0009
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
The Mini is the most compact shovel Voile offers and stores conveniently in your backcountry pack. Bigger shovels often hog up space inside your pack or don't even fit in a pack's external shovel pocket at all. The Mini, with its telescoping handle for extended reach and leverage, collapses into a tight little package, 23” tall and 24oz. Why choose a plastic shovel when you can get the strength of metal in the Mini? [Available in red only.]
Bottom line
If you're a MINImalist who prefers touring with a smaller pack (and smaller everything!), this is the shovel for you.
Product Reviews
Super Light- great value
This is a badass shovel- It is super light and compact- yet can move snow like the bigger voile shovels. The shovel head is tough enough to take on any type of snow!! Great Buy!!! recommend to anyone who wants to shed the lbs for a shovel. I would prefer to have a "D" shaped handle so that I can grip it better with mittens or gloves... other than that.. great buy!!!
no complaints
I use this in the backcountry for patrol. You could always have a burlier shovel, but this one does the trick. Sturdy metal if you need to break ice or anything, yet super light.
big shovels come in little packages
this shovel was surprisingly strong for it's compact size. i personally don't think you would need more unless you were planning on using it to build igloos every day. i own a landscape company and I'm rather picky about tool quality and this is a nice piece that's very light. it also fits great into an arc'teryx quiver bag that i purchased here once you remove the handle. great value!
Chop chop... et Voilé
I'd just like to say that I've been impressed with this shovel but I have a couple of important quibbles with it. Cutting snow out for avalanche tests, a very important function of a back country shovel, would be made much easier by the cutting area and base of the scoop being flat. The concavity of this shovel and the trough running along most of its base made cutting the snow flat very awkward, and compression tests difficult and painful enough to be unreliable. This is a big design flaw but not insurmountable. I hope to see a redesign on the market soon as it is potentially a very good product.
mini built tough
The mini shovel can handle anything a bigger metal shovel can with ease. The super sturdy construction makes it vastly superior to a lexan blade for cutting through ice and debris, and the smaller size won’t tax your back when lifting dense snowpack. I find I dig faster with this unit than with a full size blade which is the most important factor when trying to save your buddy. Killer Shovel!!!
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