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- From: mcrk@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Matt McCormick)
- Newsgroups: rec.climbing
- Subject: high end climbing shoes
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.170728.8919@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:07:28 GMT
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- I have been thinking about a new pair of climbing shoes. One can never have
- enough shoes afterall. I am looking for a pair of very sensitive slipper
- like shoes that will be effective on very steep routes and roof routes.
- Something that will let me get my toes dug into holds. So I am thinking
- that the 5.10 UFOs are a good choice. I have known a lot of people who rave
- about them for precisely these applications. I guess a lot of climbiners
- are going to Boreals these days too, but I don't know much about their
- shoes. 5.10 does not have the best quality or the most durable shoe around
- but their rubber is obviously very good and I think that their shoe designs
- are very good. It is too bad they can't improve their quality control. It
- is amazing to me that a $130 pair of shoes will really last no more than a
- season or two of hard climbing. So what are people's ideas about shoes of
- this sort?
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